SISyphus

              actually

was led to think Sisyphus

the random capital letters at the head of each piece

such as it did begin SIS

                    S  strange  I  its  S  she  F  felon  S  Stephen  A  aestivation  F  from  I  its

quick glance SISFSAFI  blocked letters stacked atop each other 

S

I

S

F

S

A

F

I 

    looked like SISYPHUS

once King of Ephyra

                       forced by Zeus to roll a rock fortunatelyrounded uphill  only to watch at days end it roll back down

    any task of extreme effort  ultimately futile    endless

he

      actually

revered Sisyphus determination his grit

a fellow student in the School of Hard Knocks

fellow doing things the hard way because

                                                  if it is easy

anyone could

    he wasnt anyonewouldnt  be anyone

probably why many friends called him it caught on once one of them opened their mouth

                                                                                                        called him sigma equal to alpha male   chooses to sit outside the hierarchy

somebelieving themselves funny  on occasion  called him smegma

                                                                        he reminded them how fortunate they were he considered them friends

What? You’d beat me?

    Senseless

 

he did not bestow nicknames

                                called people the name they told him they wanted to be known as

James than Jim

Richard than Rick or Dick

                                  one arrives at Dick historically Medieval times  Twelfth Thirteenth centuries  rhyming nicknames  Rick Dick

William than Bill

Bob than Robert

    a form of respect so he believed

and when he believed

                         no one could knock him off his belief                                                       

    School of Hard Knocks

1152,  Thursday,  9  10. 25

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames#inline-text-25

strange

powder blue

soft yellow

sweater

inside the house she kept leaning her breasts against his back

he watched their reflection in the plateglass picture window

outside a bricked courtyard artifullystacked cantilevered flowerbeds a woman watched

she wore a thin

horizontallystriped

maroon ivory

sweater

then up beside her to her shoulder

walked a buxom freckled ginger

who wore a red knit

at the shoulders

broad band of ivory

across her breasts

a stiff insignia patch

   between them

he couldnt make either heads or tails of  

finished in red

sweater

 

he excused himself

his back suddenlycool when he stepped sidewaysaway from his paramour

they embraced

a deep kiss

he turnedheld his handup palm out to the women outside

rotated his hand  

motioned them in

he was a soccer coach for a competitive womens team

North Shore

Evanston

they banished their competitors  5 – 1

preparing to leave

sun going down

fall air chilling

a young woman

spectator

top three buttons of her white blouse undone

braless

chilled

asked for a ride home

he offered her a quarter to call home

she took it

then asked

    if there was anything she could do for the quarter

Thursday,  28  5. 25

1139,  Thursday,  9  10. 25

its what hes come to expect from WORD from aspects of his computer overall their unceasing of course its a machine would have to pull the plug attempts to muck things up 

an example

             he began a sentence to be fair he was trying to provoke WORD  Imagine  Tryin to provoke a machine he began a sentence with Hazzard misspelled it 

                                                  clever machine  it toyed with him

WORD failed to bitch him  correct or challenge his misspelling

he wondered if it assumed he was thinking of the television series The Dukes of Hazzard

Christ

         he wouldntdidnt watch that trashdismayed his younger brothers his little sisters who sat rapt on the carpet in a semicircle six feet that was the rule had to sit six feet back from the television

they wondered if he was mad

hed take a book into the small room off the livingroom and read

his parents either together one at a time wandered past

                                                            Why aren’t you watching TV with the brothers and sisters?

because  he thought that was a stupid question he looked up at them with cool detachment No thank you

 

for shits and giggles he entertained Google

                                               HazzardYUP

The Dukes of Hazzard then immediatelythereafter  The word “hazard”

                                                                                                       “The English word ‘hazard’ comes from an early French word, hasard, which itself derived from the Arabic word az-zahr, meaning ‘the die’”.

die as in one of a pair or more of dice

had to admit that hasard was mighty tempting

                                                   he was writing a letter to his father who was keen as he was wonder where he learned that about catching misspellings in the newspaper was particularly bugged if the misspelling occurred in the opinion section whether by an opinion writer or Letters to the Editor  personal opinions similar to todays on-line crap which far too many people gobble up as fact

                                                                            But Dad . . .  

Yes, son? he was his fathers son  his father never called him by his name   bugged him

Do you think the typesetter erred or do you think the typesetter was simple precise and did not correct the misspelling   After all hes not paid to be the proofreader actually he and his father were brieflyemployed at a local paper when they were young men as proofreaders his old man got him the job thought it would be a kick same cat was the editor when his father proofread

No matter. I’m calling the paper to let them know, let them know they ought to be ashamed of themselves, abusing the English language like that.

once upon a time his father found a misspelling in a book and went to the trouble to find the publishers telephone number and called and lodged a complaint

they were thorough

their wives called them anal

 

    they were proud of their anuses  

1111,  reggaefriday,  5  9. 25

1046,  Thursday,  9  10. 25

Stones  (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSxnv1_J2g

she lavished him slavishly

                                 woke him this morning

he saw it in his handheard it in his voice

lavished

slavish

she slavishly lavished  me

slavishly she lavished me

she loved him

he loved her

 

her attentions intentions warmed him    heated him

                                                            he always told her they did

he didnt want a moment to pass without her knowingunderstanding how grateful how wonderful it was to have her in his life

she was sacred

 

    he lavished her slavishly

AM,  Thursday,  9  10. 25