he had a habit

                   say that juicy morsel out loud an like the commercial When EF Hutton talks, people listen. theyre on it like flies on shitcant seem to help themselves

Do you mind?

I don’t mind. Continue.

hed disappoint them

he didnt have a salacious habit

his was mundane

                     thought  Whas more mundane than mundane

DULL

Very good

BORING

Good

DREARY

Yes

ANNOYING

It is

BANAL

Fuckyah banal   Banal

                            Thank you

Youre welcome

not only were his shehes heshes Johnny on the spot

                                                        they were freakin polite

his habit was advertisements through the mail unwanted enveloped solicitations bills that included a last page THIS PAGE INTENTIONAL LEFT BLANK

                                                     it isnt

neednt label the obvious

                          tacere plural tacenda (goes without saying)

his habit was collecting those pages keep them on a clipboard an scribblewrite on them when something occurred to himTHINGS always occurred to himWheels on the bus go round an round round an round round an round

                                                                                                                an for tha because he didnt take shorthand in high schoolIDIOT he would have been the only boy in the roomIDIOT FUCKIN IDIOT how didnt he see tha then

                             an for tha tryin to keep up with himself afterwards he often struggled to read his handwritingDAMMIT

                        Whadoes tha say

heshes shehes shrugged You wrote it

You wrote it was ballsy

                         like father like internal cretins

he digressed

when he finally translated the transhated transmalpractised transfuckedup sentences letter by letter word by word memorialised them in fashions of personal letters journals emails textmessages Letters to the Editor hed flip the page for shitsangiggles to see was at home on the other side

sometimes sobering

                     not a week earlier he turned several pages to find he wrote on the backs of an unreferred letters of reference letters of recommendation from managers senior executives he worked with – not for – with

he was not a team player

they he rememberedrecognised all their signatures after much grandstanding worrying wrangling realised exactly what he told them Give me my head stay out of my way let me do my work

the lay of the employment landscape changed while he worked

when the company was bought they who acquired it brought in their own players he was out

not that he was surprisednot when he walked out of four interviews

                                                                        he did endure one

hence the unreferred pages

                             whell looking on the bright side which was not his forte he usually kept to traipsed on the dark side to informprovide others who were blinded by the shinybright klieglight

he finally got some use out of them

some time,  day-between-2-Ts,  14  8. 24

1310,  Reggaefriday,  16  8. 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX7ZEotoFh0

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band  Blinded By the Light  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzk3x3HZbJI