nearly shriekedchoked it

                          Didya hear yourself  Just now   Out of your mouth

   What?

Wha Whadafuck

                    Arya cognizant of whayare saying  Do you hear listen  to yourself

genuinely taken aback What did I say?

Say

       Yadon know whaya said

HEY. 

      Maybe you didnt hear me right.

Hear  Me I listen

                    You Yahear me  Theres a keen difference between listening an hearing I know exactly whaya said

   But to be fair the word triggers me

                                           An irrevocable error

Error?

Yes Youre familiar with trepverter

                                     If I knew then wha Ive realisedwha I know now

Ill confess Likely I knew it then

But I wanted to please Cindi Her parents  My parents

                                                           Although I believe she felt as I did

We allowed ourselves to be coerced

chuckling sardonically We conceded We were a product of our time

                                                                      Albeit shoud have been more wary  aware

   Wha did yasay

Oh.

    Got caught up in your narrative.

No My lifeour life wasnt a narrative

                                       A submission

Submitted  Made nice with family with society

                                                   They hadnt been understanding  Forgiving

Our mistake

But whaya said ya fail to recognise understand

                                                    Are seemingly ignorant

What?

   Wha

          Wha truly irks me

I can’t think of what I said that would be irksome.

Ya fuckin kiddin me

                       Came out of your mouth

WHAT came out of my mouth?

    Out of wedlock

                    Wed Lock

Cindi an I woud have been happy without a marriage contract Our love didnt require it

She  I

        We agreed if we had an itch the other coudnt scratch wed respect each other an admit it before going further

   We didnt need a contract

Yours

        You need a contract

Did your love require a contract

   Wedlock.

               I made it as a casual reference.

Lazy  Nothing casual about wedlock   Frankly its damning

                                                                Cindi and I woud have been happy an happy to bear bastard daughters

1225,  Monday – Memorial Day,  27  5. 24

2308,  2sday,  28  5. 24

he knew exactly where this had come from infiltratedinvaded his dreams

                                                                                Towhee salmon

theres no such thing

but it insisted there was

                          You’re talking to one.

he was talking to a fishan awfully animatedexcited salmon

                                                             had seen that same headsame face on Pacific Northwest totems

Towhee salmon

                  Thas whaya said

Yeah.

Okay

        this conversation was set in motion by Gunther Grass The Flounder  a retelling reimagining of Grimms fairytail coudnt help himself Von dem Fischer un syner Fru  The Fisherman and His Wife  had conversed that evening with his daughter about it she pickedup a copy from a Free Library in her neighbourhood

the fish was so enthused he said he was willing to talk with anyone anif he didnt hed burst

Anyone

Yeah.  Saw you were available.

I was asleep

Fuck you. You’re a conduit.

conduit hed be called lotsa names his whole lifewouldnt rise to the bait   but never

   he imagined connedidiot

NO. Conduit.

               You got potatoes growing in your ears?

that was his mothers line

                           No  Can hear just fine

Good. You’ll never guess where I just was.

Wipe your fins at the door before you came in

Of course. I maybe be rude, but not crude. I saw your shoes in the doorway.

Thank you

Of course.  Where?

I don have a guess

                      I woudnt have guessed this

I was in a boil the spawn drove my nose into the redds gobbled eggs sipped split milt. Glorious!

Soya wanted to stop here to say tha before you died

   Died?  I ain’t dying.

Thaswha happens

You’re misinformed.

No Ive seen it Seen it happen in the Kenai streams in Ketchika . .

. . laughed  Ketchihan.

                          Ketch me if ya can, you can’t. Those poor, poor slobs.  Not me. I’m Tony the Salmon.

Tony

Yeah. The Salmon.

   I thought you say towhee

No.

     That’s a bird I look like a bird?

I thought perhaps there was a species called Towhee salmon thas eluded me all these years

Maybe all your years have made you dense, inarticulate.

Maybe

        Or maybe you an I ought to thank our lucky stars were having this conversation orya woud have burst

                                                                                                                    Spilt milt

You like that.

I love it

   Think your cats smell me. Gotta go or they'll eat your face.

Awwell  Thanksmebbe  for stoppin

                                        My pleasure Tony the Salmon

Don’t ya forget it.

early AMish,  2sday,  28  5. 24

1219, 2sday

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