To be  or not to be

    they were casual interlopershe couldnt discourage them

                                                                 might say they came with the territory

inhabited

squatted

    most of the time they were a kick in the head

for the most part

                   he didnt mind

No not be  

          B

B

Yah  B

How do you mean

You were there

                  Woke us

Might have been asleeprubbin sleep out of our eyes

Aah

       It was a barrage

To B or not to B

This better be good

It is wha it is

You don like tha

I don but sometimes begrudgingly  Ill let it suffice

B grudgingly

Clever

Pray tell

It B gan begate   I stepped awayback so they didnt run over me

                                                                      Begate besotted beleaguered bewildered bedazzled bezanyed bent over  begone

Whastha mean

Beats  the fuck out of me

0750,  Tuesday,  8  4. 25

1230,  Tuesday

Joy Division  I Remember Nothing  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC2VrYUrJ0

tired of felon blowin’ smokeup his ass  Quit

HOWBOUT THE PRICE OF EGGS

1721,  Tuesday,  8  4. 25

Hmmm

          felon golfs  https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/03/trumps-golf-habit-costs-taxpayers-millions-author-says-there-is-a-dirty-secret-about-the-president-on-the-links.html

                                                         blows off attending the return of four soldiers bodies who died in Lithuania during shared exercises  https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-golf-liv-saudi-lithuania-soldiers-return-veteran/

stinks a bit like Nero

                      fiddling while Rome burned  https://www.britannica.com/story/did-nero-really-fiddle-as-rome-burned

    Neros story  perhaps   mythic

felon  myopic dense

                      coud give two shits

ran to stay out of jail

 

1732,  Tuesday,  8  4. 25

felons TARIFFS terror

selfinflicted

              now theres an idea

had to wonder

                Whaif  whaif

he lifted a tariff  placed it against his head

                                              hed recommend in his mouth pointingup through the top of his head

if youre gonna do it do it right

    just wondering

idle hands the devils workshop

                                  however

God did save himGod  saved him

                                        maybe

to make a bigger splash

1437,  Tuesday,  8  4. 25

Where do you comeup with this shit aahlways shortening   Why

                                                                       Whastha about

Come on, vernacular among friends.

Friends  Every time ya squawk acronyms Im cool I dislike it an I let you know

                                                                                  Evidently  cant help yourself

Please  Askin again

                      Keep tha  between you an your other friends

F-zone

It’s obvi . .

. . Obvious   Horseshit

               

                              Means

F-zone.

            Friend zone.

Yare kiddin

Tha yours

That’s mine? What are you asking?

You made tha up

pride swept into his face I did.

Im thinkin  grammar school

                                  Yaint been there in a longlong time

Others would disagree.

Letem

        As I said  keep it between you an them

Better yet

Howbout F  W  P  B  ye  of F-zone    Or for tha matter F  W  N doubleA  B

In your wheelhouse

    Not comfortable  is it

I ought to stop

Yah

I don’t know.

Irritating

Honestly

A little.

Little is a lot to me

    Are you going to say?

Im gonnasay  An when retreadinem gimme credit

Again, what were they?

F  W  P  B

               F  W  N doubleA  B

deliberately  F  W   P what?

B  Think P  B peanut butter

Oh that’s good.

Yah  Good

                An

And?

Need paper an pen Got a folded piece in my book

If you wouldn’t mind.

No not at all

they crossed the park to a bench he set the paper on it

                                                            F  W  P  B.  Got it. The second?

Good

I have my moments, if I can borrow your line?

Youre welcome to

                       The second is F  W  N doubleA  B

F  W  N doubleA  B.  Got it.

    And they mean what?

Ya don wanna dabbleplay a bit withem before I let the cats out of the bag

No, no. shook his head

Friends With Parsed Benefit

An Friends With Now An Again Benefits

Yamight understand dropping the letters an sayin the words everyone woud understand

                                                                                              Unless

Your clique devotees need mystery  have to have jargon

     Tad too close to jagoffs for me

357preferred,  Saturday,  5  4. 25

1114,  Tuesday,  8  4. 25

Define sublime

    mused  Sublime.

                      Who uses sub . .

. . I just did you parroted me

                                     Define it

Lemmesee began taking his phone from his multipocketedwho the fuck needs that many pockets khaki cargo pants

Nono   No

              Not a dictionary definition

Gimme something from your own experience tha feltor you might describe sublime

    Youre older than me Sing your praises

Your enthusiasm is daunting.

Comon   Sublime

You usually say first when you ask.

Usually

          Not today   Dazzle me

    Nope.

Nothing comes to mind, ya came out of the blue.

Christ

        Goes off in my head popcorn popping

Truly

Nothing

    STOPwouldya  It looks like it hurts

A little embarrassing.

                          You’d thin . .

. . I think

You’d think I would.

Why I asked why I withheld an example

                                             Albeit it a modest one

You had one loaded up before you asked?

I did  A genuine refreshing memory

                                       Spurred on by tha Ive not been

That’s a loaded sentence.

repeated it in his head  Yes  now tha yave mentioned it

Ante up. 

could see he was growing impatient  buddy needed to work on that

                                                                   Happy to

My oldest friendknown since Cub Scouts my mother our Den Mother sent me a postcard Hemingways house in Key West Florida

Hemingway?

               You told me not the other day your were reading a collection of his Nick Adams storiesya lived in Florida Miami, two years, yadidnt make it to Key West?

I did not

          I fell in with a lively crew who liked to smoke dope drink wine fuck  At the time my focus

Two years?

Yaheard of the proverbial lost weekend

Of course.

Yah

       Lost two years made Dionysus proud

Tha thawas   a tough routine to break

    I’m not sympathetic.

Didnt ask you to be

                           I was thinking more along the lines of how   how yes pathetic youd have been

Your Daddy woudnt have approved

Like your parents cheered you on?

I said two years lost   Sent them postcards so they knew I wasnt dead

                                                                                 I like routine

But were movin offpoint  Sublime

Love postcards

His postcard   Mailed it in Key West

                                         Postmarked Key West

screwed up his face

    I said  modest

357preferred,  Saturday,  5  4. 25

0939,  Tuesday,  8  4. 25

Billy Joel  Movin’ Out  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtL8vWNZ4o