. . . but you said you said . . without you.

I did

    What did you mean?

Wha I said

What you said was . . was . what’s . what’s the damn word

   Ambiguous

YES yes, that’s it.

                     Why ambiguous?

Plausible deniability

                       Watch enough politics ya learn things  Ive probably earned a Masters degree

    You’re being facetious . . aren’t you?

Am I

         Coudbe a doctorate

You getting out over your skis?

shaking his head I don think so

    Again.  What did you say?

Didnt I wrote it

They’re the same.

Writings commitment  Fixed   Unerasable

                                              I wouldnt have been able to do this  without you

I don’t know.

Not yours to know

                       I do

 

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Harry Nilsson  Without You  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dnUv3DUP4E

Hold on hold on hold onwoudya  hold on one freakin minute

WHAT?

    Please  No reason for agitation

                                      Ya losin your mind

You losing yours?

Are you a child

Are you?

he laughed  what else is one supposed to do with that

Are you?

hed play his game

                     act not that the child acted  act like he couldnt remember from one minute to the next what transpired in the last five minutes

Am I wha

What do you mean what?

Exactly   Wha

                Your diatribe  Im listening   All ears

Wha was anticipating What you said

Nothing

    I got steamed up.

I get steamed up.

Why

Your default is defence

                         Im not attacking you  Im urgent  aggressive   Confrontational

But I aint attacking                               

It feels like it.

Cant tell you how to feel

                           To reiterate  Points I make  is to deliberate converse argue  not berate

It feels like it.

Correct me if Im wrongIm not

There. Again.  Pejoratively I’m not, you hear yourself?

    I hear you  An Im not wrong

                                    It must feel like tha because youre not confrontational

You strive  ya go along to get along

I don

Which is why I said  wha provoked this

                                            Its not interfering  when youre one interfering

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O   For tha you deserve a latitude named after you

A latitude?

Doncha think

A latitude?  Like . . . on a globe . .

. . The globe the planet earth

I’m . .

. . A coordinate specifying north an south positions Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricornyoud be in the northern hemisphere

                 Coud also be a coordinate on another celestial body

Don let celestial go to your head

    Why do you say that?

Come on

           We were just discussing that

Latitude?

No

Then what?

What were we discussing

                            You are present when we talk . .

. . You talk

As do you

I can’t talk like you do.

No you cant  Im the idea guy

                                    We volley

We do not.

             Ratio . tenfifteen to one I’m able to return.

You exaggerate

I do not.

           Know tsunami?                                                 

Yes  Seiche Lake Superior Lake Eerie gave it a second E Lake Michigan   White horses white caps breaking waves

Jesus!  SEE?

Cant help myself

                   Tsunami  a lovely looking word  if a woman Id date her sight unseen  an audacious name for a female child

And on an on.

You know these things Im telling you

    No.

Im sorry  We agree its important to learn something new every day

We do.

Sowha

         Is one your quota

I didn’t say that.

I did    I did

                 Hence latitude   Northern latitude

Minimal  scope for freedom of thought

                                               Instead  Maybe a highway

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Gordon Lightfoot  The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhA9pd51GIM

harp  she called it harping

                             Can’t we just talk without these wild tangents you entertain, go off on?

Wild tangents

Yes.

Hold on grrlcatch a breath  breathe    Yes a tad breathless

    You’re absolutely maddening.

An entertaining

                 Not something in your orbit which is why were friendswhy we didnt date

I wouldn’t date you even if you asked.

My apology  You are entertaining

You’re a smug sonofabitch.

I try

Who replies to defamation with I try?

Rhetorical  but Ill play

                           I also try  took a deep breath this is like beating a dead horse I try to give you wide latitude to keep up

Keep up?really?  Keep up.

                            Out the gate you’re gone leaving me bread crumbs.

Which you eventually follow

she shruggedmuttered Freakin’ maddening.

    Howeve . .

. . No.

Hear me out hear me out

                            However  We agree

It is important to learn something new every day

                                                       I do give you tha

she put her head in her hands

Odd confirmation

                      Ill take it

Now

she lifted her head

Looks heavy

I’m . . . I’m . . tired . . . defeated.

Youre not

Don’t tell me what I am. 

Excuse me

             Correct

Though you agree

 

    That I learn something new . .

. . From me

    From you.

I learn something new.

    An most unimaginable in your realm

                                              Why I wait for you to catchup

Wait. You call that waiting?

Wait with goadingopening your eyes  I incentivise

    Why the hell don’t you just use a bullwhip?

Don give me ideas  No

                          No    Then wed have to date

  

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