. . . haste makes wastecautions himself all the time under his breath though  sometimes  it codifies the oddest things

Codifies? How do you mean?

I made a typing errorfound it as I edited the piece

                                                        But the word really attracted me  so I let it be

You didn’t correct an error. Was it obvious?

Correct

            I let it stand

If I may, the word.

Actually a name

Name?

I name my plants trees  like I name pets my outdoor ferals

                                                               A name for everything an everything in its place

What was your error?

Misstroked H  hit G

                        Was naming a saplin . .

. . What kind of tree?

No fuckin idea

                 As a young sprout it intrigued me so I dug it up potted it  think two years  until it grew legs Then transplanted it into the backyard

It exhibited a glib waywardness

Made me think of dreads

Its leaves?

No   Its totallyrelaxed manner

A tree has a manner?

Ifya pay attention

So the name that attracted you so much that you didn’t change . . . is a tree's name?

Yah

       I thought as I typed  whirlwind   Whirlwind

Came out Wgirlwind

                          Which

If I had an opportunity to date a woman called Whirlwind

In a heartbeat

Wgirlwind

A nanoheartbeat

So you have a tree in your backyard you call Wgirlwind?

I do

      I talk to it the others my pets the feral every day   Every day

Christ.

         I don’t even talk to my girlfriend every day.

Im a solo act  I talk to them every day accost them daily

Accost?

Sometimes they seem to appear accosted

                                             But thas my style  Confrontational   Aggressive

Theyre flourishing

some time earlier this year  '25

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ethos

               in America

he was pretty sure if he went between enough sofa seatcushions hed find some   paltry    loosechange

ethos  character

 

Between   Under cushions

Yah

       Not readily accessible in this America

   This   America

Yah

         No brainer

You exhibit ethos

Informed by my ethics which my parents enforced

                                                       They did not spare the rod

Ethos  One of threefour  rhetorical appeals to persuade people 

                                                                       First ones credibility

Youre credible

Were

          Credible

Thank you

Youre welcome

The other appeals

Yah of course

                  Emotional connexion  Called pathos

Logical reasoning   Logos

   Anya know these why

Recently read an article in The New York Review of Books

                                                                Who knew reviews coud be so fascinating

You said threefour

Yes  Kairos

               Timing  Timeliness   Critical moment  Opportune time

I believe the three prior more important

they chuckled Ethos

Yah

        Whas funny

Ethos in America  this America

Yah

Its Greek to me

   despite himself he snickered  Crazy Mariachis

 

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Who’s that?  he motioned at the television screen

Blueskys Graber

Bluesky’s?

A microblogging social media service  Part of your social network

Mine?

Yours

   Why would you know that?

Stumbled on it better than a month agowha  whadoes her tshirt say I cant make it out

Looks like it begins  . . . with . Latin?  U N D U S.

Seems room before tha

Then S . . .  N?

No  I think I the letter I   Her tshirts folding at her armpit

U N D U S . . S I . . .

Definitely something to do with Caesar below  C A E S A R I B U S

Yes. That’s plain as day.

Yah  Plug tha into your everpresent iPhone see what shakes out woudya

Why don’t you . . . where’s your phone?

At home

Why is your phone at home?

Its my house phone  Its right where it belongsbesides yours is never far away

                                                                                     Addicted

Shes an unusuallookin woman

She is.

           There’s . . . nothing under U N D U S.

Plug in the Caesar we can make out

Eyes in the phone. Would you spell it for me, please?

C  A  E  S  A  R  I  B  U  S

Thank youthere we go.

                          Brings up Epitone de Caesaribus.

Scroll down

   Scrolling.

Don make tha facerestin bitchy face

What?

Nothing

           I cant watch

 

Got it.

           In the space before was the letter M. It’s M U N D U S. Followed by S I N E.

M U N D U S  S I N E  C A E S A R I B U S

That’s it.

Latin

Yeah.

 

   Yah  Whas it mean

Ohyeah.

             Means . . . a world without Caesars.

Definitely political

Definitely.

Felon

Definitely.

Good for Graber  Makes me like herher product more

What?Wait.

Wha

Are you thinking of going on social media?

Ohno

        Im just remarking tha her product seems most legit from wha I understand about social media platforms

Im not goin socialHell no

Im antisocial

Ascetic.

Introvert

             But I know people tha are more so than me  At least I can be performativeHell  wha am I sayin All introverts are actors when they have to be  Its a survival skill

I like MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS

Me too.

Hashtag

What?

Nothing  Forget it

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Gimme the last time

Ya leanin on me

   Possibly

                     Last time you can remember

Remember

                Such an odd elementreductive

Crude

Perhaps

           Though youre fortunatearent you you   possess   known to possess  a long memory

I know Ive been convinced

                              Have receiptsconfirmations of by  my parents

I spookedem a bit                   

   The last time

Last time  Stoned

                      Havin at this

Yah

he smiledsnarled it looked uncomfortable

                                                 Truth be known     Dislike tha line

Tell me  I know when

You do

           Ive no apologises  They grewup to be   be more than me

They were brilliantborn  brilliant

                                       See thasee tha shit  Ya know    You appreciatesavor it

I had mad appreciation

Evenif   I wasnt sober

                           But

Me sober unsober  werent terribly far apart

                                                   Raisin a kid was kneejerk reaction

For me

Not my wife

                 But

I was a brood eldest

                        She was three of fourkidsister not trailing her by much more than a year raisin kids was as natural as takin a shit

   Soyah

               Last time I wrote loaded was when my wife was out of town my kids were asleep upstairs

Worked out well

 

Now

       No kids  Cats

Anthey coud give twoshits

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