cat ate a canary grin on his puss

   Whacha smilin about

My sisters. My brother. Several people who I’ve befriended through them are going to get me into Heaven.

                                                                                                               his grin twisting more

Woudyastop yalook ridiculous

Can't help myself.   I’m In.

   In

Yabetcha.

shook his head  

                  Youre In as much as me which means a cold day in Hell Although Ive renounced it loudly more virulent than you

Yeah, I’d think you’d temper that just in case.

In case of wha

In case.

Fuckyou pullin your agnostic card again  Commit

I’m just sayin they’re believers, true believers.

                                                   I’m In.

Praytell

         he didnt laugh though it coudave been a joke

I will.

All ears

They tell me they’re plus one.

Plus one

            Like a wedding plus one

   Yeah. Exactly.

Then you an they are full of shit  Plus one my ass

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She woudnt accept me wishing her a Merry Christmas I coudnt she said because I don believepissed me off

You let her go.

I did not She made a production about it an I don take shit off anyone

She’s mother-in-law.

Motherinlaw

               I don take shit off my Mom   Nobody

Well. You don’t believe.

Careful

   You don’t.

I told her I celebrate Christmas  Tradition

                                            She laughedsnorted literally spat tradition  An I went after her God her loving benevolent God  Yah tell me Maw tell me about God in the MiddleEast twentyone to one dead Gazans to Jews Palestinians to Israeli some real proportionality Bibi clutching to power somebody ought to make him a statistic  Yahtell me about God  Slaughtering each other over religion a religion like yours

You didn’t.

Donbe an asshole Im telling ya

                                    A religious war whastha called  Im heated I cant think

Yeah. I know what you mean gimme a second . . on the tip of my tongue.  On the ti . . oxymoron . .

. . Thasit thas right oxymoron

                                 he laughed

You’re laughing?

I am

What’s funny? You were brutal with Mom.

Oxymoron

   What?  Oxymoron.

I tend to think humblebrag

Humblebrag?

An oxymoron   

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he laughednearly choking on his coffee Muthafucker thawas hilarious

Yathink? his eyes eager

Yah I think

             But because youre so rarely funny

Hey!

Truth

        Ill give ya credit ya try But youll have to admit you usually fall flat

   begrudgingly  Crazy. Funny when I don’t intend to be.

A scream

he had drawn a line on paper  labeled pseudointellectual left at the extreme right intellectual

                                                                                                     Thalook right to you

he nodded

I coud make it more extreme turn the paper longwise

No. It doesn’t strike me there’s that much room between them.

Why the page upright struck me as reasonable

I agree. Reasonable. We are talking intellect.

Good he chuckledno pun in intended  Were on the same page

Choice. No pun intended.he laughed  That’s funny yeah, I made a joke.

   No

buddy deflated

Question

Let me recover, wouldya?

Wasnt tha far a fall

                      Rally

No. Not so far.

                   dejected sighed  What’s your question?

What is the gulf between pseudo and intellectual called sipped coffee

   Purgatory.

almost blew coffee through his nose

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. . . Oh fuck you Mom

You said that on the phone to your mother?

I did she was full of shit

                            I had to bring my argument home an she wasnt listening

Got her attention

So you said Oh fuck you Mom.

he noddeddisliked redundancy sayin again

That’s unbelievable.

Believe it

             Its the freight of fuck

Nothing comparable Nothing approaches its ardor nothing can replace it

      The freight of fuck

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