he wrote

             IS

inch beneath it he wrote Is no  a line struck beneath it an arrow jabbedup to the lines midstroke

IS

Is no

         Wha the fucks tha all about

and in black ink

   he rarely wrote in black ink

he had to traipsereverse back

                                was writing about cemeteries Jew Bill Lee Jubilee

writing about life deathsentience

                                    fear separationseparated

                                                                  Were not    IS  Is no

ARE

   We ARE

it angered him that people believed did they believe  someday theyll be on the other side  the flipside of the coin heads tails lifedeathdeathlife

                         Call it.   I’d rather not.   You’d rather I call it? That’s the choice.

they hadnt spit in their mouth to croak

                                         I can’t.   So momentous call, and you can’t?   Not when it means everything.

How doesnt one make that call

IS

Is no

Call it

Everything to win

Everything to lose 

afternoon,  day-between-2-Ts, 10  1. 24

2309,  day-between-2-Ts

Warren Zevon  Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euBuVh_BUe4

Lets walk through the cemetery  I think the dead would appreciate us the living among their presence

They’re dead.

So

Their presencethey have no presenc . .

. . Are you fucking kiddin me  No presence

backpedaling a bit You’re taking me wrong.

Speak

        Right your ship

I meant presence as in you and mewere present.

Diggin your hole deeper

   I don’t want to go.

To the cemetery

Yeah.

   Why  Have you really given it any thought

                                                    Or are you simply repulsedyaseem repulsed  not of your upbringing how manyChrist how many funeral wakes burials  have you attended People didnt die while you were growingup

That wasn’tfor lack of a better word . . part . of our family’s culture.

                                                                       So no.  I do not want to walk through the cemetery.

You know people in it?

I do I went with them to their graves

                                        I could point them out tell ya stories about them

I don’t know them.

You’d get to know them

I could show you one hell of an epithet on an epitaph  I love saying that

On a headstone?

A small headstone Created some rancor in the communitybut he had one helluva a sense of humour He was on my paper route all ten years I delivered it He was always kind to me One day on the route on my birthday he met me at his front door had a box of chocolatecovered cherries dark chocolate He said Happy Birthday  I thanked him He said This wasn’t my idea, the wife’s. Well please thank her for me I will.

What’s on his headstone?

Jew Bill Lee

Jubilee.

Yes

Why would that upset the community?

Bill was proud of his faith This neck of the woods wasnt receptive Frankly I think Bill moved here to stir the pot made it America held the neighbourhood up to Americas promise as a promise not lipservice

Jubilee.   Jubilee? I don’t get it.

Jew Bill Lee not jubilee

                         J E W  B I L L  L E E

On his headstone?

Sensational huh I can show you He rests near a great old black walnut He bought the plots for he and his wife his sons when he saw it he had three formidable black walnuts on his property Made me lotsa money rakingup their leaves in the fall

Jew Bill Lee.

He was something else   Now thaya know him wanna visit with me  Ill introduce you

No.

0900,  day-between-2-Ts,  3  1. 24

1332,  day-between-2-Ts,  10  1. 24

Kazukii  Ansia  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGp1YI7IGHo

Quit being contrary. There’s only me, no one else to impress.

Youre impressed

Not impressed for impressed’s sake.

                                       You’re confounding.

Perhaps because we grewup vastly different Very few common chords except for how white boys were raised.

See. There. Right there.

                           Why do you have to say something like that?

White boys

Yes.

   Because you don You ought to be able to say it nowIve given you permission Ive used it Or is it a racial epithet and therefore you object to it

I object to it.

You object to the fortunate way you were raised as an entitled white boyCareful

there was a bit of a glare I wasnt responsible for how I was raised.

he began to shake his head but his head refused to be shaken WOW

                                                                   Yaknow   I got  nothing     

I will howeverbecause I got go remark on being contrary Im not Im a disruptor I am animated to emphatically pursue dissociation from reigning orthodoxies and authority as any good little white entitled boy can be Whaever those orthodoxies and authorities might be

You boneup on your racial animus regarding cultural majority groups  Well talk soon

1030,  2sday,  9  1. 24

1235,  day-between-2-Ts,  10  1. 24

Who  I’m a Boy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgOyqdN2SaE

Pete Townsend/The Who  Rough Boys  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkT8W6u81Ks