I cancelled at my dentist’s office. Tryin’ to give me the runround urged I have a sleep study done.

Apnea

Yeah. They do sleep studies too.

The dentist office

Yeah.

Sleep studyhavent heard of it at a dentist office

Evidently they’re trying to . . incorporate . .

. . Horseshit

              Smacks snake oilish

You think?

I do

I thought likewise.

                     Bunch of dimwits.

Dimwits

           Awman excited to hear ya use tha terminology

Aryou kiddin? Between Gram and you. Ever occur to you that the pair of you thought most people were dimwits?

I remember a lot of eidgets . .

. . Yeah.

         Madeup the majority of the remaining half who weren’t dimwits.

   kind of sheepish Yakiddin me

No.

    You and Gramma were brutal.  What is it she said that you’d chime in right behind her wearing a cheerleading outfitshakin’ pompoms?

Ah  I know

Say.

Give it a moment

                  You got dimwits an eidgets down  Itll percolate up in a matter of seconds

her eyes grew big

                    Oh shit.

Came to yahuh

Do not suffer fools gladly.

Yah

      Look how sharp you are

Me?

    Look how sharp you and Gramma were.

How smart she was I learned from her

                                          She made me the feminist I am today

Oh Papa, I kinda think you were inclined.

                                            Gram was just the straw that broke the camel’s back sealed the deal.

Really think so

You kiddin’ me? You were the oldest. Your sisters always talked about how you encouraged them, encouraged them never to settle for less, never take bullshit off anyone.

                                                        Anif someone tried to give them a hard time you wanted their name. You’d have a chat with them.

The aunts  Wow  Wha busybodies  he smiled big

                                                      True they were right  But women are the best the brightestsmartest sex on the planet

Guys

       Fuckin knuckledraggers

You didn’t get that from Gram.

No

     Don have to hang out with them too long not the learn tha  If women coud be a fly on the wall in all the sport lockerrooms Ive been in an overheard their shit

                                                  OH MY  GAWD

Dimwits an eidgets an knuckledraggers Oh my

Right out of the Wizard of Oz?

Exactly baby  Exactly   

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2118,  day-between-2-Ts

the last dream climaxed

                                then ended

   now

            the sun went down over the cinematic dreamhorizon he waited patiently for the overnightmornings fifth-bill of however how many –bills his mind had in storewould throw at the wall

                                                                            frankly

he anticipatedat some point superimposeIMPOSE run twothree at once on the superHUGE dreamscreen

                                                                                               Vegas Sphere has nada on him

SUDDENthere was a soundlessexplosion purewhiteness shocking his eyes

                                                                                    silently prevailed    prevailing

   continued

              continuing uncomfortably

he wondered if he died

      strangelynow the whiteness changedtexturised  weave he wasnt dead Yes ohyes woven  hunreds count  long staple   Egyptian Cotton

                            a sheet

a hard focus

               glint    goldenhued drips  drabs

   honey

           pulling back   pointofview receding

lowerright

         back  of womans head entering the frame

hair piled on top her headsecured with chopsticks

                                                          around her neck  a spiked leather collar

she lickedup the honeydabs

   naked her shoulders  her backfurrow of her spine

                                                           she crawled

pointofview receding furthur

upperleft appearing in frame

                                    a disembodied semierect cock

      wasnt honey

motion eeeasedceased

images blurred

unfocused

   dull   darkening

                           went matteblack

the end

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123preferred,  day-between-2-Ts,  27  12. 23

   smiled

           loved when his imagination kicked in treated him to the impossibleimprobable

possibly happened in his eyes  projected on them brain to eyes  or maybe eyes to brainhe could care less

he saw it unveil

                 first runmaybe   perhaps the only run

hes never had anyone jab him in the ribs and tell him  You wouldn’t believe what I just saw.”

                                                                                                    he would

he was susceptible to anything imaginable

                                             as a kid he climbed into big trees to their uppermost limbs sat in a narrow crotchswaying with the breeze and let the clouds act let them tell him a story  great white billowing cloudssensuous  dark angry stormclouds  both so passionate    clouds intrigued him

Where were you?you missed dinner. his mother demanded

You don’t feed him. his father said

his kidbrother I told you, he was sitting up in the tree on the corner.

Were you?

I was

Didn’t you hear your father whistle?

I heard

You didn’t come. Knew it was dinner.

Yes

Don’t feed him.

I’m not.

           He made his choice.

I did Im accountable

an ivoryamberstreaked coloured moon swept through the silhouette of a black bare tree

twothirds way through its crownthe last third the moon began to catch on the skeletal limbs  plaits   stretching like chewinggum

               either pulled or pulling  either in jest or pain or anger

the moon changed colour

                          ivory darkened  the amber deepened like driedblood

neither the moon relenting or the tree releasing

thickstrands thick spiderweave

   when the bulk of the moon  round  vast    was wellaway of the tree

                                                                              one or the other let go

a slow elasticity apparent

black limbs didnt trembled

the plaits caught up

                        then

the pair were separate

asif they never teased or angered or interacted

         but he saw

                            he saw

AMish,  Saturday,  16  12. 23

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