I was thinkingWhat?

   had sprung his eyes widetilted his head Thas got to hurt

Are you shitting me?

No

     Not one of your strong suits Thinkinpuzzlin requires immersion slivers of cognition thawoud lacerate your admitted don want to work tha hard I can only do one thing at a time which have grown worse over the time Ive known you

     Truth be known

And your cogniti . .

. . Exceeds yours

                    But Im more than amiablewilling to give it time  Im younger than you by three years Theres time to match you

Whawere ya thinkin

   I don’t know if I want to share now.

You don know questioning

                               Or yadon know admission

Jesus. What’s with you?

So quick to take defense cant take a barb

                                                 Whas with you

You attacked.

   Thas got to hurt

                     Miss the facial head gesturesgymnastics tha preceded the remark

Fuckin thinskinned

                     But

Truth be known I know tha Yare easy to bug

                                                    Whawere you thinking  You recall

See.   See.

No

You push me off my mark on some tangent, confuse, frustrate me . .

. . Anwha you were thinkin goes out of your head

Kinda.

         I’ll recall.

   I got time

I’ll remember.

   We were discussing  Arduously

YES.

      Discussing. Heated.

Im not heated

Well ya got me heated.

Yare easy to heat

                    Wha

I remember.

 

I thought you were going to say something.

Im listening

             Woud hate to throw you off track again

Discussing. You said arduously. We were arguing, having an argument. I thoughtwas thinking, wondering, how many people would take the word argument as a fight rather than a debate.

You did

But not usually.

No

We usually have an argument . .

. . Discourse

Yes.

     What percent of people have discourse about . . about . . . cerebral things . . Jesus . that sounds haughty.

Im not sure were cerebral.

Science. Mathematics. Politics. Physics.

Were fond of them

                    People discuss enjoy wha theyre fond of Football Basketball Entertainment  Were entertaining ourselves

Whether they call it arguing an argument or not isnt a descriptor some demarcation

I . . . I think it is.

I disagree

353preferred,  Day-between-2-Ts,  7  2. 24

1201,  Super Bowl Sunday,  11  2. 24

was it was a good thing that the town librarians knew who he was

                                                                        by name first  last

he made a point of knowing theirsbut they wore badges he preferred calling people by namewas good at it they stuck in his brain like darts in a dartboard some perhaps hazy at the periphery but nice groupings inside the triple ring and bullseyes

there was some confusion with his patron account

                                                     patron

made one throw out their chest  pride

libraries deserve more patronage than they receive

                                                     hed point out National Ignorance  fiftythree percent of American adults ages sixteen to seventythree read at a fifth grade levelFIFTH GRADE

                                                                                 how old is a child in fifth

teneleven years old

                    TEN ELEVEN years oldCHRISTSSAKES

as far as he was concerned vocabulary writing mechanics theyre damn near illiterate

                                                                                               HALF OF AMERICA

he didnt even want to get started with their ability to regard history current events civics politics

                                                                                                     could they even use a dictionary or want to an encyclopedia or want to if a betting man an he wasnt hed lay money that those hampered individuals were content to do what theyre told to do

                                                        without question but how could they fifth graders lineup when they are told to

   it was good librarians knew his name

1510,  Saturday,  10  2. 24

1054,  Sunday,  11  2. 24