23.11.23

   third iteration

over time

first off the cuff  June 17, 2007  a Sunnyday
rewrite  September 2

   again
          yet another Sunnyday  430ishness  February 10, 2008


I am in a place

where shirts feel like straitjackets buttoned wrists  fuckin button at his throat
pants fit like knotted bondage

           a place    where the air in my lungs is smoke

prisoner

bound

no escape


no birds will feed

not insects or worms


Ive become dull  tasteless     plastic
                                        the spicedmarrow of my bones shrunken

I am
        some  other thing

300PMpreferred,  Thursday – Thanksgiving,  23  11. 23


You look steamed
I am you said you were coming.

   I said thank you for the invitation
                                            I didnt blow you off

A thank you implies you accepted.

his head pulled back instinctually avoiding a cheap shot
                                                              No
Yes.

No

Yes. 

he wondered if this could become interminable and as quickly decided it could
                                                                            I thanked you for the invitationdid I say
Ill be there  Better   What can I bring because I don go anywhere without asking if I can bring something
Do I

No.

sounded better than his Yes bell tolling

Thank you

   You’re welcome.


I thought you would come.

There was a chance then it happened and I was enjoying myself too too much

droll You were home alone . . by . yourself

Yes at last his turn
                       Enjoying my company

By yourself?

Sorry friend you shoud know by now
                                        Your company cant compete with mine
 
0303preferred,  Thursday – Thanksgiving,  23  11. 23


Jesus
        Sometimes competent

What are you bitching about, funnyguy? Crazy how you read the newspaper and on occasion find it necessary to blurt out words, words without context, and, I think, expect me to be able to read your mind know what you’re complaining about; because you’re complaining.
Irritated   Irritated
                     Im more irritated than complaining or bitchin

What’s bugging you?

Im incredulous   Although I shouldnt be

Of everyone I know . . . you . I would think you being incredulous odd. Must have really came in from left field.

Came in from outside the park

   Outside?

Incredulous

Awright. You’ve piqued my interest. I’ll listenyou'll excuse me I don’t want to eat cold eggs.

he made her breakfast in the morning
                                        his obligation since he wearied her to the bone last nightearly this morning

this morning realised that incredulous and insatiable were tandem

No Please  Eat your breakfast
                                  Another slice of toast

No thank you. I think I’ve enough.

he didnt tell her but he made her a four egg scramble veggies cheeses he wearied her pretty good last night

Ohmy, I’m so hungry this morning.

Bingo  Confirmation   he smiled to himself More orange juice  coffee

talking around food in her mouth
                                   Mure coffee please. Are there more country potatoes?

There are

May I have more of them?
                             You do such a good job.  she chewed   Always have refrigerated boiled potatoes . .
. . When Im going to see you You bet your ass theres more potatoes Would you like the scrap also . .
. . Peease.
             If you weren’t.

Im not Im good

You had fruit and oatmeal didn’t you?

Ya know me so well You were sleeping I didnt want to make a lot of noise

And you went out for sweet rolls.

Right around the corner baby
                                   Mistakenly I bought the paper

she smiledshoveled more scramble into her mouth
                                                     You didn’t buy the paper by mistake.
No  My mistake was reading it

she took a bite of a thickcut rasher wiped baconfat from her lip with a knuckle and licked her knuckle
                                                                                                             Awright.  Tell me of your anguish.
Thought Id pop

   Stop.
          You’re small talk is every bit as sweet as your pillow talk.

he grinned
              Tell me more
Shaddup.
            Competency.

   Yah  Competent
                        Would you hire someone who was   Wait for it   he scraped the country potatoes from the castiron skillet onto her plate
                                  Hire someone who was sometimes competent

Sometimes . competent?   Thank you.
                                         Are you kidding me?
No

What are you talking about?

An prominent talkinghead an attorney is quoted as referring to formers employees as  and I quote Sometimes competent   But always loyal
                                  Seems a stupid trade-off to me

she set her coffee cup downlicked her shiny greasy upper lip
                                                                 Stupid.  But what did you expect?
Yah  Hence   Incredulous

she smiled ridiculously dimples deep leaned across the table gave him a deep breakfastykiss
                                                                                                       leaned back
You’re my guy.

Damn Your breakfast is tasty

1602,  day-between-2-Ts,  22  11. 23
1326,  Thursday,  23  11. 23
I am your retribution  Superstar  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lSZ2cb9has
Lee Michaels  Do You Know What I Mean  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9iVKQPeXA
Ringo  George Harrison  It Don’t Come Easy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSRkfYu4wrA

 

THANKFUL   formers not

 

Isaiah Berlin wrote The Hedgehog and the Fox in 1951
                                                           a critic E. H. Carr responded that what Berlin had really said was that any political program carried to an extreme will have authoritarian consequences so it would be better to avoid the political  concluding he wrote “Surtout, point de zele.” taking the phrase from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord a diplomat who skillfully survived the French Revolution “Above all, gentleman, no zeal.” Berlin liked it so much he adopted it as his motto for the rest of his life

George F. Kennan American historian and diplomat best known as a strident advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War his critique was that totalitarianism takes advantage of peoples weaknesses manipulates “the irrational sides of their nature . . . what preserves us from being manipulated is the recognition that although we are imperfect, our problems are susceptible to solution by rational processes, and should be so approached and solved.”
            by rational processes, and should be so approached and solved

hence the weak irrational former can be solved absorbed eliminated by recognising he is 

by recognising there is one political party in America called the Democrats Republicans are not their equivalent and will not be until they embrace governance embrace seeking compromised solutions to problems the nation faces  provides a thoughtful political platform
                              NOT UNTIL


he was invested in common sense invested in not being anyones pawn   able to think for himself 
                                                                                                          not take orders

0952,  Thursday – Happy Thanksgiving,  23  11. 23