he bought Delilah a second apricot fizz said Vernors ginger ale not that Sam would have forgotten to tell the bartender

          he was a firm believer in redundancy  Sam knew

hed been fuckedover once too many times

now unsparing

                 an curbin his tongue  wasnt high on his list of priorities

Well I neve . .

. . Yashoud have been  a long time ago

                                            Had you then I woudnt have had to bitch ya now

Interrupt  your charmed life

    his friends and family described him as rude

he curled their hair

                      rude

that offended him

in the vernacular  he was brutally honest

Don wanna hear

Leave me out of it

 

Sam brought their drinks over

Thanks kiddo

Yabet Joe.

 

So.   You ever daydream about the past?

    Daydream

                      Nostalgia

Oh.   

        I . . . yes . . I suppose it is.

No

      You

My family home.   My parents, my siblings.  It was a haven.

heaven coursed through his mind

                                     though having just met  enjoying drinks  conversation  he gave her an undeclared reprieve

No  Nothing like that

    This is your hometown Ja

It is.  I mean my parents' house.

he nodded he got it  I grew up two thousand miles away from here

                                                                      Might say I couldnt get further away without leaving the country

You didn’t like your growing up?

Loved it  Woudnt have changed a thing

                                           But thasall in the rearview mirror

Cant Go Home Again  Tom Wolfe

I left when I was twenty

    Do you know, or understand, why you left haven’t looked back?

Baggage

           Ifya havent baggage graduating high school being eighteen  ya havent lived

I contend with whas minemy responsibility

                                               I aint luggin anyone elses

 

Im from an enormous Catholic family

    Im an atheist

                        I don care

   

1717,  Saturday,  30  8. 25

1634,  Sunday,  31  8. 25

Monkees  Daydream Believer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqeSJlgaNk

Words up to its old mischief silentlyaltering words he didnt type

                                                                      like anything computer

like continuing to date a girl who cheated on yaya a fuckin idiot questioning her watching her like a hawk

I really don’t appreciate you scrutinisin . .

. . I . didn’t appreciate you . . cheatin on me.

he wrote Im payin again an Word changed it to Imp ayin its outed  he let it stand

                                                                                 he got Imp Whas ayin

Ahyes  forgot   sixteenth letter of the twentytwo lettered Hebrew alphabet

in the same text he wrote Im eatin hurriedlyglanced seemed to him the precursor is Im the apparent ephedrine and pseudoephedrine kickers commonly found in cold and decongestant medicineBUT Word didnt flopdidnt Ime atin

Googled Ime

              Independent Medical Examination

doesnt matter that the second two letters were lowercase Google makes acronyms out of anything or rather now-common English usage 

Googled atin

               Adoption taxpayer identification number

used by the IRS which fomentedsparked him to discover realise ITINs ATINs TINs SSNs  though to be fair those acronyms used uppercase letters for their abbreviations which likely meant and when he wrote them

Word respected them

    it is with some testy umbrage towards what the computer deferred  allowed  those acronyms but somehow couldnt leave his spelling alone

                                                      Whos wrioting here

 

1122,  Sunday,  31  8. 25

1451,  Sunday

BEISU

this was going to be hard to top goinforth into the futureNuts

                                                           all fuckin night long

he dreamt in manga back to front artwork was fabulous crisp lines faultless shading scores of attractive characters  if it wasnt Japanese they were speaking it sounded awfully Oriental  looking around he asked Excuse me excuse Translator  Anyone

                                           they didnt understand him

he picked up a lonely fortune cookie

                                       JaChinese it was cool  Coolie

didnt thwart the dream one iota Oriental

snapped the cookie open inside  a word

                                             B  E  I  S  U   if that didnt look Chinese Japanese Oriental

hed eat the cookie

                       Are you going to eat that

No.

Why

I don’t eat fortune cookies.

You could have asked the server not to bring you one

I don’t think they would have understood me.

They understood you when you ordered

I pointed to the picture on the menu.

she did

Im eatin it  Im payin for it

Fortune’s mine.

Its yours  I have my own

                        B  E  I  S  U

    the word continued to keep poppingup over an over an over obscuring the action behind it when it did like the Goodyear blimp at night flashing a message on its side to those who lookedup because they were familiar with the sound of its propellors near stealthnot stealth

B  E  I  S  U

                      thats a message from Beyond

his dreamingself elbowed his dreamedself

                                             Ill be backwell  be back

EVIDENTLY  I got to wake him up for him to write it down then maybe itll stop flashing go down like the Hindenburgmaybe flames blues an purples not ruin our acquired dreamed nightvision

he woke him up

                  he wrote it down  B  E  I  S  U

fell back to sleep like jumping off a cliff without any intent of hitting bottom meeting his Maker  Makers

wasnt interested in watching his parents have sex in the missionary position particularly against the backdrop of dreamed sex where nobody had a backbonefucked like eels slick like eels

those were mightytough to wake from 

    

 

    when he finally emerged from sleep fed the cats in an out made coffee he firedup the computer Googled  B  E  I  S  U

                 NOPE   DENIED

he was dismayed

but then he thought

no means no

but no doesnt mean NOPE

                             he pressed on

whaif   whaif  B  E  I  S  U    was a Word JUMBLE

whynot

    him fuckin with himself

he could tolerated thattolerated that

                                       wasnt a turnip fallen off the wagon

unsophisticated

and he was good at JUMBLE

Googled  E  B  I  S  UBAM

                                    Japanese manga   The God of Fishermen and Good Luck

if someone tried to tell him his dreams werent fruitful hed punch them in the belly

overnight before 7AM,  Sunday,  31  8. 25

1147,  Sunday

Sam   Sam Woudya mind turning the TV up a scoch please

Yabetcha, Joe. she leaned over liquor bottles to the shelf beneath the mirror at the back of the bar to get the remote  An quit lookin’ at my ass.

    You must be insane

If you were me youd be checkin out your ass too

turninground she tapped the volume up

                                            Thas plenty Sam  Thank you

You’re welcome.

                  How much have you had to drink?

Im running a tab youre serving  youd know better than me

                                                                Guy on the tube  Maron  Comedian   Jew

Cat always has words for the wise

Wiseguys?

               smiled  fuckin dimples

she was a peach no matter what angle he took her from  anyet  again  she in a relationship an he wasnt

maybe someday

                  Wisegals too  Listenup

Maron was having his way with Mandel mocked him when he asked if he followed pop culture

No. 

Here it comes Sam

That’d be a waste of time. I live my life in the vacuum of the things that interest me.

    Vacuum.

Somethinghuh

                 Thanks for turnin it up kiddo I woud have hatedan I don hate to have missed tha pearl

Cats been around forever an I just pickedup on him

                                                        Pleased I have

He reminds me of you.

You don know it but thas quite a compliment

                                                 Thank you

You're welcome. How’s your vacuum?

Chalkedup to the gills  Time wont be long enough

                                                     You

Busy busy busy.

Relationship

Enjoying it.

Id rather you lie

                  Misery loves company

    You’re not miserable.

No Im tryin to teach you how to lie

2217,  Saturday,  30  8. 25

1017,  Sunday,  31  8. 25

Eurythmics  Would I Lie To You?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3HYOLJSoM

it was a wee conundrum

  but he lived for them

                           particularly

in regards to their friendship buddy‘bout turns himself inside out when theyre having coffee at Lucilles and he casually mentions they need to talk about their relationship

Would you keep your voice down, Christ.

Wha

Relationship.  

Ja

    You rather I call you my boy friend

Would you shaddup.

Then quit insisting I look at some guy running by because his gait is effortless Why the hell woud I have any interest in watchin some guy

Aint got shit Im interested in

buddy looked peeved he was constantly sizing guys up  some metric scale he devised in high school  

that wasnt going to stop him from pushing

 

    a week ago . . .

adamant I don’t know that.

Actually you do

You not hearing me?

                       I don’t know that.

Ya do

          I told ya

You told me, and I’m supposed to take your word for it?

You know me to shoot from the hip  Not vet

                                               Gave ya two sources  Yaneed a third

Ya got your gawddamn smartphone saddledup next to your hand next to your coffee

Check what I know to be true

Ifya do  Ya owe me a ten bucks

I’m not giving you any money.

Its admission

Admit you know

Or pay me for wha I know an shared

wanted badly to check his phone

You can put your money where your big mouth is

really indignant You insulting me?

Ja

     Ya miss youve insulted me Tit for tat bro

Do I have a reason to blow smoke up your ass

 

    but a wee conundrum contending with clownie

2301,  Saturday,  30  8. 25

0921,  Sunday,  31  8. 25

when he belched it came out arab

    meant nothing by it

                             he belched

What’s that about?

Wha

Arab.

    I belched

That's offensive.

    I   I don know any Arabs

                                 Persians

Ja

Not Arabs

You better stop that.

Its involuntary

Can you voluntarily fart

Best back off, man.

You back off

                 I  just  belched

1938,  Saturday,  30  8. 25

I didnt walk until after I was two

My kid brother my Irish twin walked before I did

                                                    Almost a year before I did

Was there something wrong with you?

wasnt a better subject to break the ice at a bar when meeting a girl for the first time

                                                                                         No I was very fat

How fat’s fat?

You familiar with babies

Second of five.

The three younger a lot younger you changed their diapers younger

she laughed it was musical dimples accompanied

                                                They were youngeryes.

My birthweight was seven an an ounce

                                            Yours

I was eightfifteen.

How long

Twentytwo and a half.

Big baby

Of us five, the biggest.

So then youre familiar not only with birthweights but weight as babies grows I think their average weight at a year is twentytwo pounds

                              Wha arya drinking

An apricot fizz, ginger ale, they have Vernors.

Coud I buy you a drink

Is that what it’ll cost me to hear the rest of this story?

It wasnt gonna be

                     Is now

Ya twisted my arm.

                      Yes. Please.

heldup his arm caught Sams eye

                                    she heldup a finger one sec

What was that? Bar's busy. Are you two connected?

Telepathically

    What’s up, Joe?

Sam Delilah wou . .

. . Seriously. Your name’s Delilahbecause that’s the kind of shit Joe thinks up.

No. Seriously.

they burst outlaughed together

                                        he couldnt have been more pleased the jiggle between them was awesome

Gals Can we rein it in youre killin me

You wish. they spoke overechoed each other

I doSam

           Delilah will have the apricot fizz Vernors ginger ale Ill have a Guinness large Jameson please

to tip him just a bit further Your wish is my command.

I wish

Sam laughed more dimples more jiggle

                                            Be back as soon as the Guinness creams.

She’s a kick.

She is

You two ever an item?

We wished

             We met she was in a relationship When she wasnt I was

We became good buddies at virulent cross purposes

I like her.

Eminently likable

Birthweight.

Ja

    Twentytwo pounds at a year 

Born at seven

At six months twentyseve . .

. . OH MY GOD.

Fat fat fat fat baby

                      My fat rolls had fat rolls  However

I am confident not walking till after two was for another reason

What other reason could that possibly be?

At birth  Anticipating it . .

. . Anticipating?

Yadidnt

    I can’t say I did.

I did

      At birth freed of my umbilical coil I stood astride my mothers thighs like a Colossus

I think I pulled a muscle or muscles badly

Took me two years to recover

    a smile was sneaking onto her face

                                     You’re so full of shit.

Sam overheard Delilah

                          He is, isn’t he?

2244,  Tuesday,  12  8. 25

1524,  Saturday,  30  8. 25

wasnt his

wished it were 

Marc Maron comedian

he suggests that people who are appalled by abortion clinics could be appeased

                                                                                      change the name

call it an angel factory

family friends could see why he wished it was his

religious people argued angels are finite

Marons solution

baptise what will be expelled foetuses

family friends could see why he wished it was his

what was his

               Nazi death camps for Jews could have been a hoot aside from its horrors

he knewhands down pole that he was if a death camp was filled with ghetto polacks spiced with homosexuals gypsies  a few untermenschen tossed in a few lebensunwerten Lebens tossed in that crew would resort to some awfullyapeshit black humour

                                                       give Jews a run for their money oooh

Lifes a comedy club  

Cant take a joke

Shouldnt have come in  

1648,  Monday,  11  8. 25

1236,  Saturday,  30  8. 25

Maron  Angel Factory  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDoY0lm0u1E

I think thasah  problematic

How so?

    Yareally believe tha

                                  Give me an example

Give me a myth

A myt . .

. . You said the mythologiesya got more than one the mythologies than define us

                                                                                      Im only askin for one

One

Thasall

Anunderstand Im not included in your us

No us?

No

I’d have to think.

How much time ya need

                            I prefer you don table it put it off for another time because  yaknow   because I gotta pull teeth to remind ya whaya said when ya said youd think over

Its tedious

    I’m sorry. Off the top of my head I can’t think of one.

Dig deeper

            Yareally don want me fillin the gap

 

I can’t.

Lemme help

    Help? You?

Sure

         Drop myth mythology mythologies

Canya do tha

Getem out of your skull

I can try.

I can evictem ifya like

Evict them?

Easy

    You know, I’d like to see that I’d like to see you evict something from my head.

No sweat

           Wont be kind

I aint kind

No.  No you’re not.

                       An expertise, I’d say.

Happy we see eye to eye

Take your best shot, man.

Ill give you mythologies is creativewas a nice surprise

                                                            But all yave done is dressedup lies

Lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel goodbut unfortunately  lies you spread about yourself to others seeking favourability

To be liked

Which you do

You need to be liked

    Terribly

In this moment . . . I’m not liking you.

I don care

             Come now give me a lie tha defines you

1331,  Monday,  25  8. 25

1107,  Saturday,  30  8. 25