So  have to imagine there are linesbright lines  tha have run through your life mileposts distinct markers which have informed possiblyformed  your life

Where’s this coming from?

Conversation

                Communication   communing

I grewup twothousands miles from hereyou got me by three years in age yet were somewhat contemporaries

   Comparisons  comparing

Influences

So what do you want to know?

Know

         I suppose thas for you to say

Whell . . . I don’t know what you want me to say.

Nothing

          I asked wha I thought was a simply questionoff the top of your head

Influences

What do you mean?

    I thinkNo  no

                    I believeI know  its inherent in the word

My fathe . .

. . Not familial You   Personally

You said influences.

I did

My father was a huge influence.

Ever think too huge

                         Or was large enough to have been a detrimentas you know  my father wasnt

I revered him. 

                 He wasn’t a detrimen . .

. . Curbed you

What do you mean . . curbed?

Altered

Altered what?

Decisions

             Decisions wha shoud have been yours alone

Finances aside

What do you mean finances?

Financial influence

                      I paid my parents nominal rent from the time I was thirteen which was preceded by things I wanted tha I knew they woudnt afford me so it fell to me

Finances

You paid rent?

I was responsible

                      Influences  Bright lines

    I don’t know.

Not off the top of your head

I don’t know.

Maybe Ill inspire you

Off the top of my head

                         The Beatles Nam Kennedy-King-Kennedy assassinations Moonshot Watergate Lennon September Eleven Insurrection

Bright lines

               Like freakin lasers

Oh, I thought you meant people.

People events traumas draumas

                                       Anything tha stirredup passions

Ya got those  right

I do.

    Friend  I hope your marriage vow was more enthusiastic

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Youah you ingest fiber?

I have  Metamucil

                      Years ago to help offset medications I was prescribed

I liked it an awful lot tastes like Tangwhich went into outer space  As a kid friends had at their houses but my parents refused to buy it

Told us water was just fine

Thahappens when feedin a household of eleven

    You

Every day since my colon perforation and resulting surgery.

I remember Tha was years ago

                                       Still

Every day.

            But not you?

Nah

      Youve heard the saying hair of the dog   Mythic

Yes.

In my household hair of the cat

You have four cats.

Yes I do Lovem to bits

                           I used to fish hair out of my coffee or teastopped  they love jumping up on the desk as I write letters work on the PCGoogle the hell out of things as part of research  I call it research though its nothing more than curiosity

You can understand why I have cats

                                        Only critter Ive found as curious as me

Cat hair  My fibre

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You’re inappropriate. 

                         he wondered if she was fuckin with him Yah

                                                               Yah

In my experience Ive found tha in certain circumstances rather than give words or actions any credenceany kind of validity  rationality

                       Best shoot it in the headput it out of its misery

Which then alleviates mine 

                             After havin to hear  see   tolerate its momentary existence

    Yours was a real Jim dandy hers was a dandy expression   he didnt strike any chords

                                                                                               Thas a litotes

Ironic understatement

You were inappropriate approachin me

                                          I just sent you packing in the most polite manner I coud muster at the time

Ive given it some thought since

                                Attha moment  ya got the best I had

Hence my opprobrium

                        Your problem

Well I’m going to HR.

Don do acronyms

Human Resources.

Ah  Yes Thank you

                         Before ya do I suggest ya talk with some of our coworkers some management managers an tellem whaya stepped in wha line whoya crossed

                                                     You must have missed my No Trespassing sign

Quickly

         It reads Trespassers Will Be Violated

But I was good

                      I did not violate you

 

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