19.10.24

she was the cats pajamas
                             they were having coffee sitting at the kitchen table a linoleum table that had been his parents it was too Sixties to let it go they thought it oldwanted something new

Look here buckwheat

What’s that?

he turned the paper to her had written 1:60
                                               Whastha mean to you

One colon sixty. Mean to you.

No  To you

One whole equals sixty parts.        she chuckled amused  To you . . . two o’clock.

I love you he leaned to her and kissed hershe kissed back
                                                             leaning back  Antha is the sweet in my coffee she used honey


when they first moved in togethershe moved into his place his complex had swimming pools and whirlpools and dry saunas an object of discussion was on whose side of the bed would the alarm clock be placed on
she was adamantbrusque
                             Yours.

Why my side

You’re more responsible than me.

Don blow smoke up my ass

I’m telling you.  It goes off I kill it, I ain’t hittin’ snooze.

Well be late to work

We’ll be late to work.

he conceded

they were late to work

not because of the clock
                           their shower



he woke

the room was bathed by the full moon

he turned his head looked into her face in the shadow she slept on her right
                                                                                 he watched her sleep a good five minutes

turned his head right

her digital alarm clock beady red numbers at night
                                                2:68

Awright  Gonna give me twosixtynine

 

    2:69

he was intrigued

 

 

3:10

they were going to have a ball over coffee
                                            it was Saturday theyd sleep in  wake  make love  hed get out of the shower first warm a bathtowel in the dryer grind beans she handed him her hair wrap over the curtain rod he  her towel  return to the kitchen finish making coffee
                                            Saturday  French press

1400,  day-between-2-Ts,  2  10. 24
0927,  Saturday,  19  10. 24

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