Good morning good morning.
Sleep well
Like the proverbial rock. Yaever
wonder what type of rock it is?
he had just tucked his head in
the icebox hand on it other on the door
he came out of his bend
Type of rock
Are
you . .
. . Still high? I believe I am.
No. I am. You?
I only took a half you gobbled a whole
I told you they were awesome
Yet you only ate half.
Only half Whas tha about
When we were kids you were the
tip of the spear, the explorer, you did things that we just sat back and watched
to see if you'd die.
Didnt
No. But if there was the question
in the yearbook, most likely to lose his mind to drugs or overdose, you would
have been the odds-on favourite, second place not even in sight.
We were kids Kids are bouncy resilient We aint
kids nomo
Were you
competing with me
No. No no no. Half the
edible I ate, you were no competition.
Awright
No I
havent consider wha rock the proverbial sleep rock is You
Nah. I was just askingmaking
conversation.
Well have to give it some
thought Coffees on Got eggs got several baked potatoes bacon
sausage mushroom Anaheims onions coud do a muleskinner breakfast Coud do pancakes waffles Neighbour Beth brought over some homemade
bagels and smear
Beth.
You two have something going on?
Gentleman doesnt say
You’re no gentleman.
Im not But I also donsay
I
mentioned you were coming to townchildhood buddy an she mentioned thawhenever childhood buddiesgirlfriends come to town she makes bagels fruit scones Shes thoughtful Thought wed enjoy something homemade
Methinks the gentleman just
said.
Whadaya like
Muleskinner sounds up my alley.
I'll start with a bagel
and smear.
Heres the
smear bagels in the Tupperware on the cabinet next to the table one to the
right contains everything bagels Beth keeps them separate silverware in drawer
under the coffeemaker cups above paperplates beside the bagels
he placed the eggs vegetables on
the cutting board beside the sink cast iron
skillet on stove sausage first bacon later preferred it chewy
Toasters behind the coffeemaker
No thanks.
Raw
What?
I call it raw Makes eyebrows go up
Think I’ll abscond with that.
Yare welcome to it Spread the wealth
halving an everything he smeared
the smear lightly bit itOH SHIT this is delicious.
Aint it
Help yourself to the smear you
went light
Thanks.
he gobbed it onSHIT. This is freaking
tasty.
in his chair turnedhaphazardly to
him I . . . half he held slipped his grasphit the floor upsidedownSonofabitch.
he came out of his chairwent to his kneesall fours the bagel between his
hands turning it over picking it up floor smeared
Ill get tha
Oh hell no you wont five second rule. he began licking it off the linoleumsnuffing like a pig OHman this is so good so good it’s so good snuff snuff
so damn good snuff . . .
he returned to prepping the
muleskinnerturned sausage
hed cut him slack dude was high
AMish, 2sday,
7 11. 23
1125, Thursday,
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