he pickedup the crystal tumbler Whos drink is this
they were drinking Black Label Jameson
large Guinness pints the tandems called Bruen named in honour of Ken Bruen Irish noir writer and his penultimate creation Jack Taylor
went eighteen deep with Jack before he died last year he
was still grieving
briskly they were turning roundanabout the
table over a game of Nineball no sooner
had he missed a shot lifted his glass to lips his host missed and it was his
turn again
they moved their glasses place to place setting
them down over and over he lost track
which was his felt something like a Shell
Game thimblerig
Whos drink is this
there was a third but she preferred not to play Cutthroat said shed rather watch
The correct answer is, when in doubt take the fullest.
the fullest was
near himat hand his he quaffed
Damn thas good
It might
have been mine. said his host
Or it might not have been
host looked to third
You have any idea, we’ve been shuttling
here and there, who’s drink it was?
His now.
You didn’t answer my question.
I believe she did
Preferred not to
tarry with semantics
Its mine
Youd be better off to pay more
attention to the game youve lost four now
Two were bullshit wins.
Nine fell Beauty of slop Game benefits me because Im a banger
Last two games though were works of art
Even your taunt in the third anybody could win out from here failed as I ran the remaining four
It’s yours.
If you’d have asked me who’s drink it was I could have told you.
Then why an I quote It might have been mine
A taunt
host smiled third giggled
Ya
useem so regularly I have half a mind to cry as if I were before an assembly of
militarymen Atauntion to
watchem snap their backbones erect click heels
Atauntion
Attention.
third hadnt a clue
You weren’t in the military.
I was in the Civil Air Patrol cadet
program and was drilled and marched and know Attention when officers entered a
room
Bunch of juvenile blackshirts
brownshirts silvershirts
When I realised tha I was adios
Closest I ever came to submitting to anythingtakin orders
Was probably the last time
You?
Since Ive known younah, not so much.
No
Glad we got the tumbler sorted out Your break
1727, Sunday,
4 1. 26
1219, Monday,
5 1. 26
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