she rolled her eyes at him

   Wha    

pinching her nose she walked around him upwind

Am I emanating  

P. U.  Pheew.  Emanating? 

                              Papa, you’ve gone round the corner up the street, ya stink! 

STINK

       Then youd think Id be able to smell me

Aw come on, you haven’t any sense of smellyou’ve told me. How many times you break your nose?

Thrice

Cute, you don’t smell cute.

                             Let's go, I’ve got deodorant in the car in my bag.

they started walking to the car crossing a gas station parking lot

                                                                     You carry deodorant

Yeah. Unfortunately, sometimes I creep up on myself. 

                                                          I am my father’s daughter.

Thank god I aint alone

Too bad. Wish you were. 

                          And just so you know, it’s unisex, you won’t smell like a girl.

By the look on your face if I did Id smell better than I do 

                                                            Better than  a stockyard 

Ya don’t smell like that . . . you smell . gamey.

he cleared his throatsmiled 

                            Well kiddo I understand if we were in France Id smell right at home  Thabe musk my pheromone  possibly an aphrodisiac 

Which fortunately, hasn’t any effect on me.

                                             That’d make things reeal uncomfortable. 

You an me both

she unlocked the car dug around in a big fabric slingbag

Wha do ya got in there

she handed him the deodorant

I got snacks, knickknacks, obviously toiletries . . in case I ever get hungup somewhere I can make it through the night.

unbuttoning his shirt Wha you a boy scout   he swabbed his armpits 

No, I’m better prepared than any guy.

Ah  theres tha 

                 I wasnt either 

Indoctrination?

Certainly looked like it handing it back to her   So wha ya think

she walked round downwind  took a breath through her nose 

                                                                  That’s better, we’ll be outdoors rest of the afternoon, you can shower this evening before dinner when we take the motel room.

Yave made me a bit selfconscious

You’ll live. 

   he couldnt remember how many times he told her that as little girl

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987372/#:~:text=Pheromones%20are%20substances%20which%20are,processes%20pheromone%20signals%20in%20animals. 

Waake huup  waaake uupa waak . . 

                                        he slept like a rock 

he knew because rocks don dream

   Waake hup  waak . .

rousingthinking from the bottom of a deep dark well Ahh wakeup lazybones its time Yave had your   YAH allottedd time  your allottedd sleep 

before he could open his eyesYAWn 

                                     WAKE UP  WHA THE HELLS WITH YOU 

not a good thing to wake to a scolding 

                                         Yah wha the hells your problem                    

his interiority Mariachi affectionately his shehes heshes could be abrupt  stingy

                                                                                    Not even awake yare playinround

chuckling he opened his eyeswiped sleep from them 

                                                          Double ds got ya goinhuh I thought briefly itd be too early You monkeys really stand watch

Cold day in Hell youll get something past us 

                                              A L L O T T E D  Thas how its spelled

Comon two ls two ts a d all point upskys the limit I coudnt resist   Besides whas not to like about double ds 

Let me rephrase

                  Double Ds

they went off like firecrackers a chorus of sloppy bobbleheads heads going in all directions

Quit the feigned shock 

                       Dondig the housing can always move alongaint takin down the black velvet paintings Elvis bullfighters or putting away the pressed butterfly lamps the gaudy 60s plastic toaster cover 

                                                                                                 Its a Double D morning in America

they grumbled

he knew them well give em an inch theyd take a mile

                                                       he ruled the roost but understood it was their job to challenge him 

hed do the same if he were a Mariachi 

                                        would have been able to pick him out of a crowd would be wearing the gaudiest outfit the widest brimmed sombrero

We cool

they still grumbled

                     Were cool

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