he had a way of determining how stoned he was

                                                      Obviously

either knowing the milligrams of edible he ingested

or pops off a one-hit bong

or by the ridiculousness of conversation 

                                           sparring with a friend

his friend was inclined to broach unique subjects

                                                   for instance

epizeuxis

           repetition of a word or a phrase in quick succession No, I’d never, never, never ever do that. in his experience with a little loving care cajoling jokingteasing she did

plyometrics

             couldnt just say Jump he followed  an exercise

brachioradialis

                 slackjawsurprised him he knew hed dissected cadavers

keeping elbows in fists up he hit back  Tolkiens phonaesthetic cellar door leftcross rightcross  hypnagogic hypnopompic hallucinations states immediately before falling asleep and waking alliterations occurrences of same letters or sounds of closely connected words Best you bring backup buddy Bs were too much fun

still ascending friend would begin calling them pseudointellectuals

                                                                       higher

real pseudointellectuals

just before tipping the scalesclimaxing careening down the other side

                                                                          apex apoplectic

self-congratulatory real pseudointellectuals

if they werent high it might have been humiliating

                                                     friend if he said would immediately disagree felt the word had a negative connotation 

hed chide Nah Honestly humility humbleness  see what he did there

   beyond that point 

blue slope skiing rest the way down maudlin mental exhaustion there had been more going off in his head than he could say or explain and times when he tried he swamped friend  couldnt keepupcouldnt keep his head above water 

  

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1300,  day-between-2-Ts,  13  3. 24

Four More Years

exactly fuckinEXACTLY  four years ago

                                           the gutless rapist fraud

his decisions keep givingNAH  keep taking people from their family and friends

today 1,217,554 Americans have died from Trumpvirus 

2March 1,216,301 were dead 

11days 1,253 deaths

                           114 a day

while he runs for president after promising to be a dictator  runs to keep from going to prison

1,217,554 American deaths

                              which he takes no responsibility for

 

1847, day-between-2-Ts,  13  3. 24

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

he was scarcely awarefelt leftie stretch between his legswas up against his crotch felt her reachlong grip the quilt with the tines of her claw

   soon  shed get up

hed feel a chill seep her warmth dissipate from the depression her body made

Time to rise an shine hed ask

   not a bad way to wake

                             head and shoulders above those stretches of employment when he was wakened by an alarming clock

he had compassion for everyone whose ears were scalded

                                                                made him chuckled

he hoped somebodysomewhere had that compassion for him

his wife was lousy with alarms

itd bark

shed start

he silenced it

               wishing it had a throat he could strangle it by

   then gently hed stroke her shoulders her back Baby her  slowly rouse her

he set the ALARM early to buy her time to wake without duress of running late

hed help her out of bed get a full body hug a big kiss walked with his arm around her to the bathroom started a shower tumbled a towel her robe in the dryer for when she was out  made coffee  breakfast 

                                                                                          took her bags down to the car as she dressed

he waved to her until the car went around the corner

went back inside

set another ALARM to wake for work

                                       or went back to sleep because it was the weekend

he supposed it took those decades of work to earn leftie

0822,  day-between-2-Ts,  13  3. 24

Nilsson  Gotta Get Up  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRh2PRa1tU

off the break he sank a solid and a stripe  was linedup on another solid

took it

chalked his cue left himself nicely

from the kitchen he heard his friend mutter

                                              heard like a bug buzzingtickling his ear 

   sounded  like he was rehearsing lines

                                             Don’t make the mistake of underestimating me.

Awman  Keep tha to yourself

Don’t make the mistake of underestimating me. 

Woudya shaddup

   cleared his throat Don’t you make the mistake of underestimating me.

he was gonna slap him

                         was replayingretreading to his overunderunderover estimations

a fools errand

wasnt confronting a worthy opponent

he worried being humiliated

                                 maybe  he erred he made the mistake of underestimating them

although

             humiliation

can be inspiring

                  certainly an incentive

hed invested in competition too long

                                       ME TARZAN

imagined shouldering a skeet shotgun  PULL

                                             knock tha swingin chimpman out of the air between vines

HE AINT NO TARZAN

So he said as he entered the room  I think I sound convincing.

   Excuse me  Wha

I sound convincing.

I didnt hear

             Still have the table  Yare striped Im solid

 

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1006,  day-between-2-Ts,  13  3. 24

Judas Priest  You’ve Got Another Thing Coming  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJMgveYdO-M