they arranged to talk that evening

                                    

he couldnt waitwas going to blow her awaywas going to provoke her “thing” couldn’t waitwas giddy giggly

                                                                                                                 unbecoming a man

like he cared

               because he was anythingeverything he did was mannish

wasnt pansyish looking over his shoulder for masculine confirmation

                                                                          Hell

refused Church Confirmation

heard confirmation

heard conform 

                Right

Thad be a Cold day in Hell

disappointed his parents

                          What are we going to tell your aunts, uncles, your cousins?

Atheist would have been too brusque they may have taken him out into the backyard and stoned him with the stones they made him dig out of the ground for the garden

turned out Once Upon a Time the property was a creek bed  flowed out of the mountains

                                                                                             lots of large round blunt stones

scarred by picks shovels gooseneck irons

would have been ugly

                            Atheist talk could have provoked that

he said Im sure youll think of something

                                             Its not the first time Ive disappointed you

Or will be the last

he thought provocation was innately his

                                           just couldnt figure outthough leaned towards his mother who provided the genetic A C G T

Adenine

Cytosine

Guanine

Thymine

          wasnt a stupid boy

maybe too big for his britches as his grandmother said

Britches  how did she know britches she was from Poland

spoke brokenEnglish at best

hed get her flustered just to have her lose it to hear her strange native tongue

                                                                                 asif Latin Mass had anything on Polish

 

shed call theyd converse let her run awhile  she could run   hed interrupt

                                                                                Youll never guess so Ill tellya

You don’t even want me to guess?

Youd never guess

Awright. If you say.  I’m all ears.

I made a bumper sticker for the car

I never would have guessed.

                                 Since the election’s coming, something political?

Thawoud have been a savvy guess  No

Ill tellya

she laughed

               Must say, the suspense is killing me.

I have my moments

                      Sticker says said it asif he was Richard Dawson Family Feud Survey says

I Brake for Birds

 

Brake for birds?

Is that a thing there?

Hmm

         What do you tell me

Did you set me up?

  I didIm so fucking proud of myself

                                       Ifya think its a thing it probably is

Seriously Papa.   Are you braking for birds?

My bumper sticker says so

    I am They hustle out of the hedgerow along the busted road bugs running like Helllike it doesnt occur to them they have wings but  ya know whathey say

    No. What do they say?

I havent a clue Thought youd know

Really?

Push comes to shove  Birds of a feather

                                          Or

Birdbrain

I can’t believe you set me up.

Your old mans still got tricks up his sleeve

                                              Really really huge shirts small hookers

1409,  day-between-2-Ts,  4  9. 24

1213,  Thursday,  5  9. 24

Richard Dawson  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Nvud4-cpU