party conversation was slowing escaping like air from toy balloon cum from an unknotted rubber

Cant have tha he thought

                           mixed crowd several couples meandering singles hed open thingsup open the floor bet things would either become animated or blown asunder  hed like to be blown asunder

So anyone ever cockblocked Ive been   Anyone else

      chilly breeze

Arya a bunch of prudes

      some harrumphs some couples stood hastily and left

Anyone  Aside from me

Me.

      a cat at the back of the bunch sitting in a lawn chair turning a sweatbeaded drink on his palm

And

And I don’t think a soul can better my dismal experience.

Sounds like a gauntlets been thrown Im game   Whacha got

Zeke cockblocked me

Zeke

      He after the same girl

In a manner of speaking.

Jealous Competitive

You could say that.

My cockblocks turned on jealousies

                                       Not attractive

No.

You an Zeke go back years or a more recent acquaintance

Recent.

          He knew her before I did, we met recently.

Who introduced you

She did.

Had she been in . .

. . Was still in the relationship.

he smiled slyly

                 An open relationship   Was cockblocked once  Jealousy   Though I thought open meant open

It wasn’t an open relationship.

                                   Zeke was terribly jealous. It took him some time to warm up to me.

His affections werent returned

They were. As a matter of fact they were living together.

Living together

                  Im not sure cockblocked would be accurate

It’s . . accurate. 

                 She invited me to her bedroom.

Her bedroom They had separate bedrooms

I was lead to believe they did.

he held up his glass to him toasted Uisce beatha Irish Whiskey  Water of life

Water of life.

they sipped

You Irish?

Better Polish

he laughed

Thas better

             Was lookin like you were spiraling down going over the edge

   It was disappointing. I felt she could have turned him away turned him out.

Cold feet

      Cold feet?

They certainly came on quick, hot to trot hit the brakes.  I reeled.

You try to have a word with Zeke

We don’t speak the same language.

He a foreigner

   Danish.

             A Great Dane.

Zekes a dog

                 Yawere cockblocked by a dog

One for the books right?

Fuckyah   Im glad I brought up the subject NEXT

                                                        Humiliation

Fuck you.

Sorry man  have to cockblock ya

359preferred,  day-between-20-Ts,  6  3. 24

1208,  Thursday,  14  3. 24

a cowboy a redneck and a polack are standingwaiting in a grocery cashier line behind a Mexican

      sounds like the beginning of a joke doesnt it

the redneck points back to the cowboys waxed carton of organic milk on the conveyer belt

                                                                                               Organic, what’s that about?

There's no antibiotics in it, cows can’t be treated with 'em, trouble today is that we’re ingesting ‘em all the time, which isn’t good, we become immune, our health’s impaired.

polack in the lead nods

                         Got that right brother  And its delicious

redneck says When I was a kid milk came in a gallon glass container, yacould see the cream at the top, my mother used to pour it off for her and the old man's coffee.

Likewise said the polack

As a matter of fact my mom, frying bacon, would pour off the grease and save it to make pancakes, used it in all sorts of meals.

As my mother did an I still do Great to wilt mixup in dandelion greens unopened buds

We didn’t have Kleenex either, we, brothers and sisters, had handkerchiefs to blow our noses in.

polack went into his back pockets showed them the two he carried

                                                                       Hey man careful Dating yourself

cowboy asked where they grew upsounded like they grew up in similar surroundings he offered he was local  fifth generation

            redneck polack noddedhmmed  polack  Fifth generation  redneck  Homegrown.

Ever been out of California asked the polack

Why?

Only other fifth generation Ive ever met was in Montana Theyd never been out of Montana

No.

redneck offered he was raised Central Valley Wasco north northwest of Bakersfield

polack said Humboldt Park Chicago

                                      Queer though directing his remark to the redneck an urban polack would have so much in common with a redneck then directing his remark to the cowboy You Glass gallons of milk bacon fat offal  organmeats

shook his head said no

to the redneck Organs Liver kidneys heart tongue  Oxtail

Yup.

Mexican interrupted Me too, hombre.

polack turned forward to the Mexican I knew that Our diets are crazy similar

Migrants? I understand Polish were hired by Germans seasonally to pick their crops.

Correct My grandmothers did as a little girl before she came to America Im second generation American

Me too. said the Mexican

Fifth generation cowboy said the polack  Sounds like a claim to fame Kids

Kids and grandkids.

Crazy 

        Americas a melting pot

1430,  Sunday,  10  3. 24

1045,  Thursday,  14  3. 24

. . . Lovely

I told ya.

Cheeky too

She’s a pro . .

. . I cant afford

I’m affording.

Enjoy yourself

                   Havent  Ive no intentions now

Spoil yourself.

Not in my lane

Like your aversion to massages.

Look at you

             Gettin the message

standing on one bootleaning the small of his back against an upscale zinc bar top shelf liquors over his shoulder admiring their behinds in glass hed directed his attention solely to her

                                                                           Whas her name

Name?

        That’s no matter. She’s a pro.

John punctuating it  

head snappedhe sneered

Women have names

                      Also given the looks shes tossing this way I think   I think shes sweeter on me  Youll disappoint her   Her name

Im acknowledging her before I leave

   Youre something else.

                            Tricksy.

Gal looks clever

                  How she spell it

Really?

Why ya askin  Looks apparent to me

begrudgingly  T R I C K S Y.

See  Not a Beatrix Beatrice Patricia  Suits her 

                                                   Youll excuse me

he pushed off the bar made his way over to her table

                                                           Tricksy

she lifted her facelooked up at him

                                      animated eyeshadow

he was dying to ask her how she did that

didnt

       an as he didnt he mused embodied cognition  it was like him to duck out through side doors enter again through the rear exit or back in through the front  shaped by the state an capacities of the organism

Organism slipped his lips

Sorry. I didn’t catch you.

Excuse me cleared his throat as he thought orgasm  I said organism

   Organism. appeared that she wanted to toy with it but let it lay You’re a bit strange.

Youve no idea

                Tricksy  extending his hand  Im Joe

she took it

knew how to shake                                            

I was supposed to have been your date but Ive stuck you with lover boyo had no idea why he threw the O on

Boyo?

Ah  knew why

                Better than Bozo eh

she laughed gayly

when she subsided

                     I must say Ill probably regret this  But sighed yacant teach an old dog new tricks  she laughed again didnt cover her mouth  wished she did unabashed was appealing or change ones stripes

You don’t want to give it a go Joe?

   No   No

             Not tha Im not tempted Tricksy

I wanted to come overacknowledge you wish you a good evening

Thank you.

Youre welcome

                 he turnedwalked away  didnt look back

no need had shuffledstacked her inventory shed sneakup on him daunting daydreams when he least expected her

359preferred,  day-between-2-Ts,  6  3. 24

2308,  day-between-2-Ts,  13  3. 24

Iron Butterfly  In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfpn3wHoNGA