must have thought it was a butterfly

                                          though not a very smart butterfly

it was smarter than thatthey were smarter than that

                                                         but maybe not  he couldnt differentiate one from another

maybe the few he interacted with were females  his natural inclination assumed they were

as was his experience with females of his species 

he was inclined to say females of most species were smarter than the males

   shrubjays 

               the California edition

like bluejays the East of the Rockies edition 

                                               an never the two shall meet naturally the mountains unless a preternatural shrub or blue was undaunted which made him think of Bachs Jonathan Livingston Seagull 

                                                                                                               had to read it like he had to get highhad to take LSDhad to do other psychedelics

                                                                       had to exceed natural impediments

he used an old beatup tin cup actually a TWO CUP measure to feed kibble to his feral outdoor cats

having fed the four of them he set the cup down on the porch railing kibbles remained he had thought he heard something over his head he looked didnt see anythingHide ‘n Seek jay concealed itselfsquatted in the raingutter 

then walking away on the wraparound overlooking the sideyard to say Gmornin to his white sage Ayo – Joy English walnut Eye Idi – Eagle Skinny he still had no idea what Skinny was she was tall and slender and Slim she was also an English walnut although he did not transplant her 

                                                         and saying hello he heard a scuffle a dullring of the tin cup on the redwood deck

saw a shrubjay leapaway

                             it tried to land on it feed like a sparrow at seed

the heavyweight stood on the blacktop drive bobbing waiting  waiting for him to toss the spilt kibble to it

Boid

      they all were Boids

he couldnt distinguish one from another but it or they humoured him by their willingness to eat catfud

as it was

           he was trying different canned dogfoods to determine which appealed to his taste budswhich texture appealed most

Dinki-Di

           couldnt find it

Mad Max in Mad Max 2 turned him onto the idea

                                                    nourishment to get him through his old age

   he did say females were smarter

1349,  Saturday,  20  5. 23

1616,  Thursday,  19  10. 23

Dinki-Di  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7lMlz3DX_Q

The Pipkins  Gimme Dat Ding  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeIb7Ms4xHc

AI

not Ai  definitely not Ai Shinozakidefinitely not   Obrutha

   he had a bitch about AI a virulent resentment   abjection

“ . . . no algorithm (is) innocent of its designers. It couldn’t be. There was an originating purpose for an algorithm, however distant its past – a reason some human person made it, even if it had evolved and folded in on itself and transformed. A city(society) run by. . . an algorithm had . . . initial interests embedded in it. A city(society) run by an algorithm designed to respond to . . . desires was not innocent of those same  . . . desires, magnified, twisted by machine learning. A city(society) run by an algorithm . . . could suddenly rise up against anyone . . . designated . . .”  

he couldnt have said it better

page287  A Memory Called Empire  Arkady Martine

finally 

        someone saw it as he did 

AIs inherent foible  Achilles Heel

                                   that it is not purenot innocent  a machine cant be unless it is a hand tool  hammer  saw  rake  hoe  a 0 or a 1  compounded tools  pliers  pinchers  hedge shears 

                                                                                       lights go out  theyll still work

when the Lights Go Out 

will libraries have remained

paper texts remained

human curiosity remained

creativity remained 

who will be carrying the fire

   he thought out loud a lot LOUDLY

1634,  day-between-2-Ts,  18  10. 23

1239,  Thursday,  19  10. 23

Hendrix  Fire  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-2m07d2Neo

https://lithub.com/what-is-it-really-like-inside-a-sensory-deprivation-tank/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20October%2019%2C%202023&utm_term=lithub_master_list

they didntwhoever they were didnt have to bait him

                                                       didnt have to tempt him   tempt him to turn a blind eye 

thats why he had eyes 

                           two  fuckin   eyes

they planted succulents in a red True Temper wheelbarrow

don put pies on a windowsill to cool

                                     think he couldnt smellcouldnt see how wonderful they were

Mrs Garzino wasnt second to a single aspiringmother in the neighbourhood he watched his mother elbow to elbow with her learning how to make a lemon meringue pie for his birthday cake

it wasnt until they moved from the old neighbourhood that he had a pie his mother made all by herself he wasnt surecouldnt say that any of his pies werent Mrs Garzinos

she crushed it

he hadnt had another lemon meringue that bested hers until his girlfriend set her mind to it

she crushed it 

               and it was with notable pride that he told her hallie had which did not endear hallie to her  that wasnt his intent a no-brainer   he told her Im just telling you the truth  Never thought Id ever tell you that  I was amazed

lotsa women had tried and were found wanting

not that he didnt appreciate their efforts

the succulents in the wheelbarrow

the tire wasnt flat

like Mrs Garzinos pie on the windowsill

                                          they went with him in broad daylight

they went with him

which is different than taking them

   anyone could see that

1346,  Saturday,  20  5. 23

1202,  Thursday,  19  10. 23

Oh The Larceny  Man on a Mission  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OckkpXgYpvc