Thas crap You bought it

Well, he dated her a long time.

She was getting married the next day This was an on the fly rehearsal dinnernot  rehearsal gathering of their college gang

That’s what he led us to believe.

At a dive bar Near the university They attendedyou attended too yah

Yeah.

    Whad he say

He said they retired to the seedys bar restroom and fucked in a stall.

Retired

Restroom

Really

How woud you say it

What do you mean?

Lets say it was you

                     Lemme hear your spiel convince me

I’m just repeating what he said.

Which yabought hook line an sinker

Why wouldn’t I? He’s a good friend, a frat brother.

                                                           He's awfully smooth.

Fuck in a toilet

What?

Woudya fuck in a dive bar toilet

                                   Mebbe describing a bar seedy or a dive has different connotationsmeans something else to other people  Particularly in different cities states locales

Few dives Ive been in in Chicago theirs were like gasoline station toilets Get the fuck inanout

Mebbe

Maybe.

          He was pretty smooth though.

An they fucked before For years

                                   Theres tha

Yes.

Mebbe wasnt so risque outlandish as you were lead to believe

                                                                     You

Me?

      What?

Fuck in a toilet I woudnt Crass

                                  I cant imagine one woman Ive been with tha woud want to have sex in a  restroom Christ

   Wha a line of shit

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1432,  day-between-2-Ts,  26  6. 24

whats a name

a label

buddy was rambling on about an actor who died of an suspected overdosedrowned in his hot tub

Donknow I don follow actors

Sure you do. You know him.

Ill take your word for it

So what’s his name?

I don know

You do.

         Show. You were still watching television then.   Friends. That guy.

Youre right I do

                 Chandler 

No no, that’s not his name.

Its his name

It isn’t Chandler.

It is

No.

             I got it.  Matthew.  Perry.

Oh  His real name

Well, yeah.

I knew wha I wanted to know about him as Chandler

What do you mean you knew what you wanted to know?

Ill let you work tha out

His bio.

Not interested

Why aren't you interested?

Have my own life  Prefer anonymity

                                          Celebrities athletes influencers  Zero zip interest

Wellshit, you’d think I’d know that about you.

Yad think

So, under no circumstances, you'd want your name to precede you?

No

      Ill give ya an idea  Play a little game with me

Ask me my name

Your name?

Yah

    Awright.  What’s your name?

Wha the fuck you lookin at

 

 

Dig the acronym W T F Y L A

                                 Sounds like a radio station Welcome youre listening to W T F Y  L A  Get some slick intro music VoiceMod Soundboard masking my real voice

                                                             Off an running

Whas up

You’re telling me your name would be Wha the fuck you lookin at?

Yah

Wha the fuck you lookin at?

Yah

       Make a nickname out of tha Youre overly fond of nicknames James Jimmy Matthew Matt Matty

When I meet people I make a point of asking them what name they want to be called I honor tha

Richard

Robert

James

Awfully formal.

Those are the names they said

                                     I dislike cutesy nicknamesHell  I dislike nicknames

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late in the afternoon

edibles staunchly kicked in

but he wasnt ever too stoned not to call buddy out

That’s right, they’re my friend.

A high school friend

Yes.

How often you see your friend

We see each other at class reunions.

This friend when you see him you spend most of tha time together

No.

This friend you talk on the phone every other month during the year

Ohno.

You ever talk on the phone with him

No.

Hes an acquaintance

He’s a friend. I call him my friend.

   Pretty liberal   So

                       Gal you see on occasion calls you her friend

I’m more than that to her. I’m a very good friend.

Ive never heard her call you a very good friend

                                                  Friend

That would be incorrect.

   So

         Im gathering friendship is a type of spectrum to you Theres friends you have at reunions very good friends

Can you name me others

What’s your point?

Not mine  Yours

Ive named one  Friend

                         Whacha got

he sniffed

            A very good friend.

Friend in quotation marks.

So so friend

Sure.

Favorite friend.

Special friend.

Friend-with-benefits   Not tha you enjoy

Ya got to be snide?

Truths snide

More

I’m sure if I gave it more thought I could name severa . .

. . Friend  I call every No  I havent ever called him

                                                        Nuts spectrum man

Lemme show you mine

                         While I was writing yours down so I didnt forget I made up one

I’m curious to see.

he flipped the clipboard round so he could read it

FRIEND / NOT FRIEND

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1205,  day-between-2-Ts,  26  6. 24

the squawk overhead wasnt a flying monkey

No, that was a blackheaded grosbeak. They are among very few birds that can eat Monarch butterflies, which are toxic to other birds.

I didnt know tha

superior

          Now you do.

Thanks

If you’re writing that down beak is E A not E E.

Why woud I write E E

Beek. It’s a word, I believe.

Im all ears

eagerly hand going to his iPhone

                                   Should I look it up to confirm?

Sure

Johnny-on-the-spot almost fumbled the phone

Im assuming archaic

Beek. Bask. To warm in the sunshine or before a fireplace, stove, or bonfire.

                                                                                It is. Used only early Sixteenth Century.

Didnt make it huh

                     Deed

Deed?                                                                    

Dead  Died  Two Es

                        Recall howwhy you knew it 

I don’t. Read it somewhere.

Me Id rather bask than beek ask to eek

    What are you talking about?

Im playing Asking

                     Whas the asking price going rate

Woudnt ya rather be a threehunred dollar slave to a onehunred dollar one  Standing on the selling block anxiously motioning to gathered buyers hands cuppedpalms out wagging fingers as one inspiringincentivising the notion theyre worth plenty more Bring it up bring up the price  bring it on  Onanup

What are you talking about?

Three times the slave

                       Twelveyear Redbreast sixtybucks Twentyoneyear nearly threehunred five times greater not tha I coud tell the difference not by look not by blind taste testBUT

                                                                 My ass was being sold Id want it sold for more than the going rate more the slave prior to me an definitely more the one behind me I can see them

Commodity

Perceived value 

You paid three hunred for ‘im?

I did.

Must be a helluva slave.

He is.

Wellhell, he fathers, can I buy his boy?

I’d consider the boy, girlie, keepin ‘er to myself.

Warm myself before her

Bask in her presence

   Youd beek

he was dumbfounded

Youd beek

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds  Bring It On   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92xDcGuk1M

Wha time ya got  please

Threethirtyseven.

                   Let’s canwe . can we call it threethirtyeight? I’m not a fan of seven, too angular, sharp.

Fishing hooks spearhead harpoon

Seeyeah yes, seven isn’t attractive.

Eight

Eight.  We’ll call it threethirtyeight.

I can roll with tha

                          Soah    Woudya eat an eight

perplexed creptcross his features  wha a puss

Eat an eight

             Laplick gnawnibble gobble  chew    Ate

through the persisting veil

                            You mean a lemniscate?

If I meant tha I woud have said tha no

                                           A roundbottom eight  I woud

persisting

           You would?

Arya kiddin medefinitely

                         

persisting

           What are you talking about?

I aint talkinbout numbers an symbols ya thick

                                                  An eight eat an eight

if his perplexed miasma grew any denser  FUCK

Youre not in the game

No.

     I guess I’m not.

a bird squawked overhead

                             Tell me thawas a flying monkey to complete this unreality

looked at him

              looked like his head had turned into a dandelion puffball

  fitting

toss in a White Rabbit Alice hot on his heels

theyd be right at home

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