Ever played a Frisbee

Ever played. he scratched his head behind his ear 

                                                         Queer way to say.

Recently

Played with a Frisbee, recently, yeah.

Whadid it sound like

   Sound? 

           A game of catchtossing it back and forth, what sound?

Playing it

           For the hell of it I did  I caught one just before it struck me in the ear I heard something Hearing it made me curious I set it on my turntablespun it I got zilch at 33RPMs something at 45nothing at 78 

                                                                                                 I have to admit I coudnt make it out though there was something thereblew my mind I wish I knew a sound tech thacoud manipulate the speed  Id guess hearing it theyd shit 

Guaranteed

he fixed him with his eyesknew him since they were kids he wasnt fuckin with him 

Lemme get this straight. 

                          You played a Frisbee on a turntable. 

Yah

     My old Frisbee from when we were kids I keep it a pal to Clincher  Ive had it since Illinois then Miami Montana Minnesota Cali

Im tempted to buy a new one an spin it

Are you pulling my leg? 

No 

   Gotta tellya  It reminds me of Voyager 1977  The twelveinch gold-plated copper disc that Earthling sounds an images were imprinted on

You’re messin' with . .

. . Im not  Its the coolest fuckin thing 

                                        I cant help but wonder if I got an oddball or if every one pressedcreated when we were kids had audio  WHAM-O So fuckin Fifties WHAM-O Jell-O Play-Doh Rinso YooHoo Brillo Fritos  Silicone tits

Tits? 

      Out over your skis a bit man.

No Either ya got em or ya don 

                                  Ever fondle fake tits 

No.

A friend had implants She let me feel 

                                         She slapped me because I wasnt impressed

Sorry to hear that.

Yah Ended our friendship  Tits up 

                                      Obviously was a superficial relationship  I was sorry to understand tha

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they were toasty 

Some nice shit man Thank you

Yeah, really, really, really nice. 

                                     when he got high he became moronicleaned heavily on epizeuxis palilogic repeated himself 

rather  not unlike a badly scratched record

You’re welcome guys, when I came upon it I knew I had to hook youse up, make the ride down.

Yah thanks 

            How long you been in Oakland

Oakland he liked to think of himself as a rolling stone  Lemme think . . . . been . . four four . no . five years.

It’s been that long? That’s long, man, that's a long time.

Yeah.

Happy you knocked the cobwebs out of your ass an came down

the two bayed couple of hound dogs

   Its not really funny

No?  How’s that?

Yeah yeah, how's that?

Yeah hows tha Ill knock you into next week 

                                              If not for me putting the spurs to you yawoudnt have gone up all these years

You wouldn’t have visited?

Man, things, things, I got things to do. 

                                        He’s the social one.

Im not

        I happen to believe wed like to keep a relationship If not me certainly not you clowns 

Not me no.

             You think though, you’re the thinker. 

No no no . .

. . Yah no no Nanette 

                        You guys realise since high school graduation we you two particularly are absorbers.

I know I don’t know what you mean.

Yeah. Absorbers. Absorb.  What are we absorbing?

Like sponges Time 

                     Have you realised how long its been since we graduated high school

I graduated college.

Me too.

I didnt 

       You guys avoided Nam  Im pulling on our common string  High school

Alright. But that doesn’t explain absorbers.

He’s right. 

He interrupted

He’s right, you did interrupt him . .

. . Anya aint doin a shabby job of it either

Oh.

   Now 

          Realising how many years youve been out of school  I sure fuckin hope ya havent taken them for granted  It occurred to me Class of ’23  they might suckup time too Then looking back   Where did it go

Where   

         Tha casually we can say fortyfifty years ago    Ive a lot of people who didnt make fifty 

Jesus man. You’re a bummer.

   Nah Im professing mindfulness

                                       Life can leave you in the dust ifya take Times headfake Watch its bellybutton

 

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her voice sounded like a rasp dragged over a metal pipeKahrist 

                                                                         My my my my my to himself 

if she was a he he would have laid into him

Though comon To be fair it seems a play for attention 

Yah chaffed him 

                 Then go elsewhere an seek it please 

he disliked it when it seemed it Jeez three its in five wordstha irritated him she irritated him  it seemed it might be one of those of days threatening to go off the rails

En garde he said in a comic heavy French accent seeking relief

 

he turned his head to look at them

they looked uncomfortable  bemusedconfused

En garde  

Yah Whastha 

A warning 

            On guard

still bewildered   

Used in swordplay Signifies to the principals to prepare to fight

                                                                      Assume the position

Aah Why didntya just say assume the position

it was definitely sliding towards being one of those days 

                                                              Yagonnabe a fussbutt too

their laugh sounded like a bark 

                                  A fussbut . .

. . Yah Exactly exactly like her 

                                 Pull the stick out of your ass

She wasnt tha bad

When someone inserts themselves into a situationwas none of her business  Anthen if she meant it why didnt she whispering

It was in the library

I was at the front desk she wandered up saw her coming on a beeline 

                                                                           Shaddup woudya  Please

You didnt say

No I didnt 

           If I had . .

. . She triggered you . .

. . Rude has tha effect on me

Didnt think you were thinskinned

Careful 

         Yare gettin on my nerves

   Touchy

Thaswha happens when rude appears I have little patience on occasion 

                                                                              This being one 

Deepseated

Yah

From where 

Growingup Sufferin tha onerous a child ought to be seen not heard onerous respect your elders Its a twoway street 

Havin to explain likely you were latelater to the game

Late to roost

he only recently discovered that was their Mariachi nomenclature  Roost A little demeaning   A perch

Obviously 

Whatever happened to whispering in the library? 

When Im seeking a solution to benefit others . .

. . An yourself

   Yes Benefit me not wasting my time As I was saying When Im seeking to help otherspossibly her anwhen we began our conversation she was nowhere to be seen 

                                                        She walked into the situation Chipped in two cents

Shaddup

Damnright 

leaving the library up a couple of blocks crossing the street with the lightthe pedestrian light a driver making a right kept creepingup on him in an electric vehicle  he caught it out of his periphery slowing he looked through the windshield emphatically they gestured with their hand Move it move it along would you sneering 

                                                                                          no sooner than the vehicle could clear him it accelerated at his heels the driver had to miss the ROAR of the engine  they passed like a silent fart

across the street on the corner he waited for another pedestrian light to cross traffic  

cars made lefts in front of him on an arrow

yellowlight

the pixelated Walker appeared

                                as he watched for it it continuously occurred to him tha had the Powers Tha Be been sharper they would have reached out to might have only had to paid Crumbs to Robert Crumb the artist to use his Keep On Truckin’ caricature the BIG STRIDIN SOLE singlefootedly creating more pedestrians SAVING THE PLANET  he thought Crumb would have been cool his Keep On Truckin’ coast to coast

as he was nearly across the streetcrossing the righthand turn laneeyes right he watched some clown drive up over the curbtwo tires on the sidewalk two on the street to get around the car ahead of it just behind where the righthand turn lane began

Kahrist        

could help himself the car dropped off the curb into the lane he pirouettedround to walk backwards to witness the calamity he saw coming that Yahoo missed

                                              the car gas engine sped to the light only to have to stop as a large group of teenagers who had congregatedwaited on the light were now strungloosely across the street

it braked  its red taillights ferociously glaring 

he could make out the drivers annoyancethe twitching irritation  hand gesturing 

the car they wentround on the curb passed them

                                                    several cars that had been behind them passed

it certainly made it worth his while to walk backwards up the street

Feel better

   Yaknow Thank you for asking

                                     My irritationby that single action has almost been effaced All I need now is to find a penny on the ground to set me free

Just a penny

Just a penny

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