nearing Christmas

                    dismally  Retail

Christmas was rolled out no sooner than Halloween Day-of-the-Dead passed

    dismally

                Business has to have its way no matter what people thought

a selfprescribed Mandate

personally they were full of shit

it wasnt until after Thanksgiving that his kids put their Christmas lists together

                                                                                      sheaves

made him chuckle

they told him and their mother that they didnt want everything on the list Well, that’s a lie. Everything would be nice.

to a one

          Not everything. Just thought Santa would appreciate options.

Genius

         was from their mothers side

or maybe girls and women think alike

he never thought that way

                             which wasntisnt to say he didnt appreciate that

they were manymany steps ahead of him

nearing Christmas

                     he had yet to receive their listsusually Johnny-on-the-Spot

he called

           Whas up

Been too busy.

they were adults now

What about you?

Ive been thinkin more about you than myself

Maybe you ought to give it some serious thought.

good advice

             hadnt thought  tit for tat

Tits

Mariachi

Stuff it

Ill think

            he thought

Nothing he wanted

Whadid he need

inside a couplethree days

                               decided  they could go in on it together

one by one he called

                      insisted  Together

if it were a conference call they could have formed a choral group

                                                         Christ Papa.

they werent impressed

                         A new A.I.O. toilet seat

Mines old

1615,  Thursday,  21  11. 24

1343,  reggaefriday,  22  11. 24

he was riding home on a bus on a long treelined avenue

                                                            was reading of John Coltranes Sixties struggle with free jazz black identity primal screams

    the sun feltAah so good

he set the book on his lap and leaned his head against the glass

                                                                     lookedup

enjoyed the sunlightflash an shade sunlightflash an shade sunlightshade sunlightshade sunlightshadestaccato sun interruptedtrippedup by trunks by palm tree fronds

                                                       chuckled

reminded him of lookingup girls skirts as they wentup steps to secondstorey thirdstorey classrooms in junior high an high school

maybe they werent quickenough to know what he was doing or maybe they didnt carecould have cared less

                                                                                                                   gave him a passing-class thrill

curiosity whettedhe couldnt help himself

Friday nights

                going to chaperoned school dances

he approached girls he recognisedthose he didnt

                                                    and during slow dances 

particularly at the beginning of Stairway to Heaven asked 

he received shy smiles lurid ones

                                      but they never said

not one

    girls women intrigued him

then an now     

Sunday,  17  12. 06

1255,  reggaefriday,  22  11. 24

Zeppelin  Stairway to Heaven  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPSkNFODVRE

     admission  perhaps emission

                                    hungup a bit on obscurecures

he lookedup palm tree skirts to soothe himselfunruffle the hackles raised on his neck by the palm slaughter for no other reason or purpose than Insurances insisting that they may be destructive or worse  killer palms

                                                                                                        Fronds fall.

Not if the trees are maintained

Buildings were built around them

he was ignored at all the Public Meetings

the crime scenes remain

                          their ringlet stumps

that he still seeks out

remembering

               he used to push dates up against them  kissem

they ignored the street and foot traffic ignored the Get a room.

                                                                  those could only wished they were in their shoes

those “rude prudes”

                      his dates laughed at his pronouncements  Donya think

they did

together they laughed

were having too much fun

    he missed the palms

                           ofttimes catching himself hmm  Without You

  

Friday,  15  12. 06

1203,  reggaefriday,  22  11. 24

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

listening to 10,000 Days  Tool

                                 invigorating

History  scads mine yours ours

                                  It may not appreciate the applied term but let it comeround an lodge a complaint

theyre held in innocuous scraps within letters obscure paintings newspaper magazine articles overlooked repositories that somehow have eluded the soil of time

                                                hidden

crushedcrumpled between pottery and porcelain flattened between china plates lining or rolled to protect fragile odd pieces of remembrances fetishes heirlooms childhood toys

unpacked unfurled  found

musty  yellowed

                  their tongues talk again to tell their truths or are exposed by time to be lies

fabrications

propaganda

               but not until mined or minded are they valuable  culpable

if either

if ever

    he liked to be cured by the obscure

Thursday,  7  12. 06

Wednesday,  13  12. 06

1119,  reggaefriday,  22  11. 24

10,000 Days  (Wings Pt. 2)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJq9y9xPKWs  & lyrics  https://genius.com/Tool-10000-days-wings-pt-2-lyrics

he caught her expression

                               Whas up

    Nothing.

                Just lookin’.

Youre looking at me

    Who cut your hair?

My barber Milo

He take into account your cowlicks?

Beats me I was shaggy needed my hair cut

You’ve seen?

Whadaya mean

You look in the mirror.

I don pay too much attention If it looks awkward I wet it brush it

                                                                       I don look at me

I don’t look at me.   Really?

Yah

     Not unless I need to be somewhat presentable

But for tha matter I could plead grunge  Cobain bedhead leave aside the shotgun partnot twentyseven

No ones lookin at me

I’m looking at you.

But not in while

                  Nobodys lookin I don circulate

Circulate?

Socialise You know tha

                          Ya think Milo did a poor job

I think your hair could be . . . more . even.

Hes been cutting hair longer than Ive be alive

                                                 Good chance Im his only client owns the shop has five chairs

Its unlikely he needs to cut hair

An we enjoy our bullshit

Your bullshit?

Talk

      Come now It doesnt take more than an hour to cut a guys hair

He doesnt like oysters

But he ate his wifes oyster Thanksgiving stuffing

Though no more

                   Grateful he said

Trumpvirus took her

I’m sorry to hear that.

Him too She left him two cats

                                 Hes not fond of cats either

    Trumpvirus. You’re still callin’ it that?

When the occasion arises

                            Seems Americans are short on memory Fuckin ludicrous

But not you.

No  Not me

               JFK assassinated today in Sixtythree

Thursday,  21  11. 24

0939,  reggaefriday,  22  11. 24

Dion  Abraham, Martin and John  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxRe6rCdYVA