leftie couldnt find the right
spot
he slept on his back
occasionally
turned to one side or the other but not for long shoulder surgeries had put the kibosh on that
kibosh
ask a Yid they smile demurely but don say
he
knew better
he asks only to confirm his understandingbelief belief
understanding which he doesnt accept thinkhe believes
belief
fellow Kretins are opportunists whod rather lazily take accept than create
big brains afford
that
when he asked the Yid wily accepted
credit when its wasnt due
kibosh
sounds Yiddish
not
Irish
its believed Irish early Nineteenth Century derived in a London neighbourhood
when he looked in the dictionary
its described of unknown origin
just like the Irish race
if Jews
can be a race
Whynot
by the bye colloquial evidence kibosh may have been a derivative of caip bais cap death
leftie couldnt find the right
spot
she slept between his legstucked
up against his balls
like her mother used to
where she was born
second of three
between his legs
he had a deep abiding
affection for her mother and siblings
for her restlessness he slept lightly episodically
anwhile he did he roiled in the realm of hypnagogia where visions dreams
werent a narrative rather miredadmired a
mishmash of disconnectedstrange personalities uproarious imagery that bordered on phantasmagoric
truly Escherish flirting with Irish again
tobogganing on a sleeve of corrugated cardboard down a steep empty rotting
concrete parking lot that terminated in multiple alleyways which entering one sluicingnavigating hed be disgorged at the top
of the lot to give it a go again
playing strip poker sitting
across from a fat man who lost the hand and struggling finally got his tshirt over his head and tossed
it aside sat barechested he groanedblinkedSUDDENLY
was across from a young woman who lost a hand and like a seal slipped off her
ribbed tank sat barebreasted
sitting across from a stereotypical
gypsy woman headwrapped baublesbangles candles
flickered incense moldered who after he shuffled the tarot cards
spread them in a Celtic Cross but before
beginning she shook her head said No, that’s not right. Shuffle them again.
and more and different
and sorted and on and on and on until he finally threw in the towel
Leftie
she sat up crawled up his body
he rubbed petted her
Whadaya say grrl Time to rise an shine get the show on the
road she answered a plaintive mew hopped off the bed ahead of him as he tossed the
sheet and blanket aside and got out on the right side literally
6AMish, 2sday,
14 5. 24
1046, 2sday
pull-quote:
“‘Kibosh,’ (Joseph) Conboy (a
railroad man whose hobby is Gaelic culture) . . . “comes from ‘caip,’ which
means cap, and ‘bais,’ which means death. It originated in Ireland about the
time of Judge Norbury, who was called the ‘hanging judge.’ When the people
would see him reaching for the black cap he wore when giving the death
sentence, they would say: ‘The prisoner is “finished. The judge is putting on
the caip bais” – kibosh. Thus when we say we ‘out the kibosh on something,’ we
mean we have disposed of it.”
