he was positivesure the words werent his

                                               although their sentiment  not lost on him

writers

         The name of some is lent to streets – Paris? – and boulevards, of others to gallows and almshouses.

Who wants to alter the world?

Let it rot, let it die, let it fade away!

he scribbled the words on a strip of paper he used as a bookmarker

it was keeping his place as he read John Addington Symonds The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini  1948  illustrated by Salvatore Dali

Cellini  a Sixteenth Century Florentine sculptor goldsmith writer

to be honest

              it was Dalis illustrations that encouragedimplored him to purchase the book

frankly it was a steal

                         he knew what he was getting

he stole

did he feel bad

he bought it last centurycouldnt remember

                                             but  NO

probably didnt

his mothers son

                  Don’t feel bad for them they made their bed, now they have to sleep in it.

sounds pitiless

it was

        probably the provocation that originally forced him to make his bed  mornings – before his fuckin paper route – 5AM – but it had become a source of habit comfort routine   not ruetine  regret

                                                                                       hed sleep with women

when they woke in the morning

he made their beds too

You gotta do it?

Yeah  I did you didnt I rhetorical  had scratches on his back to prove it if necessary

best thing about it then was fucking in the made bedtearing it up again

                                                                            like the bed begged for it

that was terribly possible nothing was inanimate to him

                                                            thanked his grinder for grinding his coffeebeans coffeemaker for making his coffee toaster for toasting his bread silicone garlic peeler for peeling

                                                                                         get the picture

he used themthanked them until the failed despite how ugly they became

                                                                              his inanimate car was 30  he thanked her whenever he drove stroked her dash her name was digger

she like he kept plugging along

when she ultimately fails as he would ultimately fail

                                                        they could be ditched

two inanimate objects 

   side by side

   Two Hangmen*

the words werent his

    

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Feist  Let It Die  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoiYEoWImo

* Mason Proffit  Two Hangmen  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk3eP0bO0zY