he had a habit
say that juicy morsel out loud an like the
commercial When EF Hutton talks, people
listen. theyre on it like flies on shitcant
seem to help themselves
Do you mind?
I don’t mind. Continue.
hed disappoint them
he didnt have a salacious habit
his was mundane
thought Whas
more mundane than mundane
DULL
Very good
BORING
Good
DREARY
Yes
ANNOYING
It is
BANAL
Fuckyah banal Banal
Thank
you
Youre
welcome
not only were his shehes heshes
Johnny on the spot
they were freakin polite
his habit was advertisements
through the mail unwanted enveloped solicitations bills that included a last
page THIS PAGE INTENTIONAL LEFT BLANK
it isnt
neednt label the
obvious
tacere plural
tacenda (goes without saying)
his habit was collecting those
pages keep them on a clipboard an scribblewrite on them when something occurred
to himTHINGS always occurred to himWheels on the bus go round an round round an
round round an round
an for tha because he didnt take shorthand in high
schoolIDIOT he would have been the only boy in the roomIDIOT FUCKIN
IDIOT how didnt he see tha then
an for tha tryin to keep up with
himself afterwards he often struggled to read his handwritingDAMMIT
Whadoes tha say
heshes
shehes shrugged You wrote it
You wrote it was ballsy
like
father like internal cretins
he
digressed
when he finally translated the transhated
transmalpractised
transfuckedup
sentences letter by letter word by word memorialised them in fashions of personal
letters journals emails textmessages Letters to the Editor hed flip the page
for shitsangiggles to see was at home on the other side
sometimes sobering
not a week
earlier he turned several pages to find he wrote on the backs of an unreferred letters
of reference letters of recommendation from managers senior executives he
worked with – not for – with
he
was not a team player
they he rememberedrecognised all their
signatures after much grandstanding
worrying wrangling realised exactly what
he told them Give me my head stay out of
my way let me do my work
the lay of the employment
landscape changed while he worked
when the company was bought they who acquired it brought in their own players he was out
not that he was surprisednot when
he walked out of four interviews
he did endure one
hence the unreferred pages
whell looking on the bright side which
was not his forte he usually kept to traipsed
on the dark side to informprovide others who were blinded by the shinybright klieglight
he finally got some use out of them
some time, day-between-2-Ts, 14 8.
24
1310, Reggaefriday,
16 8. 24
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Blinded By the Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzk3x3HZbJI
