So wha nonsense arya going to get yourself in

   Nonsense he chuckled  Indeed his daughters  her lingo

                                                         On occasion he liked to liberate it take it out for a walk around the block                                                            

mariachis assured him itd be a short block

                                               meant no offense

they had access to things he thoughtnot all  without divining that the thoughts were meant to be his but brokered they liberally broadcasted them cast seeds among themselves

                                                                           felt they were entitled

A very short block

Thas wha he thought   Short  Block

Which shoud not be diminished

                                   Youve walked many long blocks

Usually long blocks

So

       If you may care to share

Not this morning not this morning he thought

their faces fell

                  they knew they were being excluded

 

he passed her in the terminal sat near her  thought she had restless legs

                                                                               which he favoured

she wore boots midcalf hard soles  twoinch heels

                                                         which he also favoured

her twitching remained

he noticed her again on the plane

                                      got caught behind the flight attendants their beverage service

We can push forward.

Nonsense  Not busting a bladder

she cloaked herself in a blanket her right arm hand fingers absent from view

he imagined a salacious program ran on her smartphone

Methinks he thought  shes pleasuring herself

                                            their eyes met  she smiled  incognito

or as a subtle exhibitionist might

she managed to keep her breath in check

                                              masterfully

one might guess where he was going with this

had he let the mariachi in on this short block shehe heshe would guess the code

                                                                                       masterfully

the only dead giveaway was the fluttermadflutter of her eyelashes

                                                                        that

and she bit her lower lip white even as her white teeth also set off her freckled complexion complimenting her long beautiful ginger hair

                                 hed guess thirtyish

almost up on her

                  a gasp  had made it sound like a brief cough  and again 

                                                                                and again

her restless legs stopped 

just then the plane was jostled by what turned out to be a bad stretch of air

had she known the weather it would have been so advantageous

he thanked his lucky stars for his timing

                                            celebrated his

how conveniently it occurred

 

returning to his seat she was still biting her lip but held her eyes squeezed tightshut which quieted her fluttering eyelashes

    Wont share

Sorry kiddo  Wont share

    Nuts

Close  

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it began with shund  Yiddish   sensational literature

                                                           pulp fiction noir  A Man Lies Dreaming

Wolf a private dick admits to the reader  “. . . not her breasts, her inguen . . .”

                                                                                      inguen

he hadnt a clue

                  Googled itGROIN  area where the inner thigh meets the lower abdomen often including external genitals

    inguen 

            apparently her gown was more diaphanoustranslucent than he was lead to believe

he liked the word an awful lot

only fishhook a G  could be barbed but hed insist it wasnt

angler couldnt land a fish on an unbarbed hook he was a hack

                                                                    Get off the river

even if subsistence fishing

                               GO

See your sorry ass again youll be chum

he was passionate possibly   unhinged about about fairplay   equality

 

Miss writing today

he shrugged  I manage two . .

. . Short

Ja

Too short pieces

No

    I crafted them to be short  Brevity   Precision

You had nothing to elaborate

    I have

            The Mall

But you didnt

I did not

           The Mall needs elaboration in order for it to reveal wha I did not see an why I didnt

My eyes averted too intent on seeing somethinganything  in that projected darkness

Rembrandt

Exactly

         Getty I believe   Many years ago

Paintings of Jesus Christs disciples  two three   faces heads executed in golden candlelight but  in the deepening black background  one really had to look  instruments of their trades figurative testaments why Christ made them his disciples

                                  Utterly fascinating

I hadnt seen such depth since years earlier at the Museum of Modern Arts VanGoghs exhibit

Two masters

Ja

      They abound if only one were to look

Ive watched a onehunredfifty year oldolder  tree  get takin down in six hours

                                                                                    Can you imagine

No

      I was present if you were

I might not have been interested

Shoud have paid attention

                              Deft execution with chainsaws

Onehunredfifty years erased in half a day

                                             I mourned every chaincut  Every limb every length every slab

Rembrandt 

             In the Malls blackdeepening concourse people walking up out of it as I walked into it alone shapes oozing momentarily into existence then disappearing  consumed

The shapelessness intrigued me

I understand

               Geometric forms trouble you Edges Cells  Squares 2D  Cubes 3D  suddenly appearingsuddenly fracturingsuddenly disappearing

                                                         Sliced precision  Hacked blunt

Did your eyes shy did they not see  disobey you

                                                     Or offer youfeed you something other

No

      Not betray me  Theyre familiar with wha Im familiar

Were they are they

                     Your experiences are founded in your sightyes though also through hearing smell touch taste

Then that something more  Intuition

                                        That thing Ive heard scream at youSTOP 

You did like you were shot

Ja

     Stopped dead in my tracks

For a moment later had I not Id be dead

                                                Youd be dead

Ja  Id be wed all be dead

I have to be careful

                        Like cats nine lives  Ive STOPPED    Think Ive used six seven of em

    The Mall

Wha was in the dark that compelled you through the shoals of humanity pouring against you heading away briskly  from the darkness

Subtle fear I believe

                       I felt if I slapped my hands together hard they boltmow one another down

To escape something they did not know

 

    The unknown

                      Fearful of the unknown

But youd let it overtake you

                                You were walking into it

I was

Anwhy

 

    I was curious

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1506,  Tuesday,  30  9. 25

went to turn off his computer and Microsoftapparently updates due offered him to Update and Continue or Update and Shutdown

                         he chose the later

he had nowhere to be  except off to bed  and thought hed hang around watch the process

at 30% there Microsoft shutdown his computer

                                                 odd

then restarted it

lights came on

still at 30% Complete

                      leapt to 70% 80%    89% 98%  and held

100% showed

that hung there tenfifteen seconds

then Microsoft went to the Sign In screen

                                           Sign Inreally  he talked to the inanimate machine

figured it was listening

I selected Update and Shutdown

Anya give me Sign In

Fuck

Worse than my second wife

 

dutifully he Signed Inimmediately turned it off

                                                     couldnt do that with his second wife

ambled off to the bathroom brushed his teeth

in the bedroom stripped off his clothes got in bed closed his eyes

    shortly thereafter the 89%  98% display followed him in litup his head

Wha

diddled him

Wha

       obviously it was dependent on him  as was his second wife 

given his druthers he imagined he was fucking an attractive cyborg and displayed on her forehead were the 89%suddenly98%  done

which compounded a suddenconfusion

                                           was the cyborg 89%suddenly98%  done  readying to climax

or was it indicating he was

                                because he was mighty close

    

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