tucked in the seatback ahead of him a brochure

                                                         Your European Summer Begins

read it as felon bumbledstumbled into the debacle with an obliterated nuclear Iran

                                                            as his inept presidential cabinet has determined

                                                                 fearful of Irans imminent nuclear threat

                                                                           their nuclear ambitions

                                                              a violent neighbour has a handgun

                                                              who wouldnt want one to protect themselves

                                                           particularly a neighbour who while in negotiations

                                                                            has attacked them

                                                                                   twice

 

                                                                              Americas nose aint clean

European Summer?

    he hadnt any extravagant plans

a friend buddyboy said he wanted to go to Eastern Europe

                                                                  ended up in Asia

following an errant notion of getting laid

    Motherfucker he counseled him go to Nevada brothels galore save yourself some coin

he should have counseled him to save himself some frustration too

                                                                       but lunkhead four years  has missed shes a friend

in Asia she was finally blunt

                                  I’m not sexually attracted to you. OUCH                                                        

                                                                                                          

   not heading to Europe

                            America has too much to offer and hed take advantage of her when the Strait is untwisted and gas prices fall

Wednesday,  15  4. 26

1812,  Thursday,  30  4. 26

brothels  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brothels_in_Nevada

 Stellar Snacks

     niche

aircraft pretzels  somebody was mighty clever

they were labeled  Maui Monk

Hmm

        reading the fine print found Maui onions  Monk fruit?

                                                                               they were awfully tasty

he nibbled his sipped Seagrams Ginger Ale sipped Buffalo Trace Bourbon separate

 

later summonsed a flight attendant with the overhead lighted button hadnt done that since he was a kid crossed his fingers

leaning forward he was in the middle seat she asked  Yes, how can I help you?

                                                occasionally crossed fingers worked

                                                       thanked his lucky stars

                                                        also apparently stellar

                                                        a cheap thrill satisfied

she was buxom

                 blouse top few buttons unbuttoned       Thank you

    May I have some pretzels a ginger ale a Buffalo Trace please

Of course, I’ll be right back.

being he was at the back of the plane right back was nearlyinstantaneous

the gloss of her last treat hadnt exited his eyes

                                                  leaning again served him   wholly amped him

 

    had he mentioned Alaska was his favourite airline  

Wednesday,  15  4. 26

1212,  Thursday,  30  4. 26

https://www.lakanto.com/blogs/food-nutrition/meet-monk-fruit-a-small-fruit-with-big-benefits?srsltid=AfmBOoplylg_409iTLMlGDRcYVU1-gRfCMQvkUOho9iSz7wc_h9Kar8m

White Stripes  The Hardest Button to Button  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE

he was packed in row 33 seat E like a winged tin of fish sardine  mackerel

                                                                                playing a numbersgame

seats

         he came up with onefiftysix

them filled  occupied  by occupied contestants voyeurs cosplayers  digitally-tickled balls cocks clits brother Bob interrupts  hes not really there  just in his head  I told you, wouldya quit, quit, keep a civil tongue in your head. Quit saying tickled.

his row accounted for six seats

                                       six silos

sick

      no one conversed with the passenger beside them  earbuds headphones aplenty  three he saw wore iPhones strapped into goggles  VRers  virtual reality  ARers  augmented reality

    reality appears insufficient

wherever

whatever

whoever they may be

                        he couldnt say

hed have to question someone who preferred to be someone other than who or what they were

    but he understood

                          his spirit animal  the buffalo  he inhabited some of its characteristics but not that he wanted to shapeshift into one

convincing cosplayers personalities hed run into

                                                         the old sameold story

if one believes something is true

a lie repeated enough morphs into truth

if one believes they are they are

the mind can be a powerful hallucinogen

if it can muster a lucid dream

                               finesses  it has the ability to alter to augment to turn narratives direct its own storyline  liberate itself from a theme that was loaded in some fashion like a serial episode outside of any serial context  a prequel sequel aired  disjointed  untouched by a lucid operation 

a common straight narrative which days months years later is seed is fertile soil for a different arrangement

Where did that come from?

                                        No fuckin’ idea.

a transformation so complete that their physics refuses to allowaccept the physics that paralleled them  invaded inhibited it  host/parasite  mold mushroom dispersing spores

                                                   there remains the slightestsliver of continuity

                                                  exceptionalseldom used words beginning with X

                                                                      followed by Z

                                                                                      followed by Y

it doesnt matter from where they come

                                                    theyve come

 

he might suppose his numbersgame wasnt drasticallydifferent than what his fellow passengers played

Wednesday,  15  4. 26

1108,  Thursday,  30  4. 26

Chicago Transit Authority  Beginnings  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-BMDnti4c

menace

Its my story to tell

                                     Ive told it

If you’re worried, don’t, she’s my sister, she won’t say a wor . .

. . My story

                 You can tell her whaever story of yours you like

    Not my story

 

You’re angry?

Im disturbed

                          You defied my confidence

Me

        Im where secrets go to die

 

I apologiz . .

. . Cant

              Not accepting it 

Whaya can do  You confide in me

                                          My leverage

    Defy a confidence run the risk of havin yours blown   Defiled

Anyalet your sister know I want a secret of hers

 

You’re serious?

 

 

 

Are you serious?

Trouble readin my expression   Stupid  Question

                                                                Uncomfortable huh

    Tell your own stories

1530-40,  Wednesday,  29  4. 26

2014,  Wednesday

Tyler Braden  Devil You Know  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMfWn4XuG5E

she had a small one bedroom place

 

walking out of her bedroom into the livingroom to say good night she pulledup short

                                                                                          What are you doing?

her friend passing through town stopped invited her to dinner a payment-of-kind so he could sack out on her couch

Wha                                                                               

she gave him a look he thought as only she could which made him smile

                                                                     Why are you laying on the floor?

You have a comfortable floor her cat had foregone his bed and laid with him on top the blanketbedding he brought in from the car  Indie digs it

Indie’s a cat.

I coudve been last goround

Last go round?

My reincarceration

bit her tongue refused to repeat him saved her breath

                                                What?

    Reincarnation

Ah. rolled her big eyes

Jah

         Apparently I was so good the world wanted me back  Encore encore

smiled crazy dimples

                    Jaysus.

he was sleepyhad driven ninehunred miles smiled

                                             Wha  Ya think not

    I try not to thinkimagine how you think.

Smart kiddo  I knew tha

                                Besides . . .

 

 

Gonna complete that?

A statement of the obvious

Unstated.

I thought obvious

I’ve said I’m not gonna venture into your head.

You have you have

                       Obviously theres no way Im gonna fall off the floor

huge grin deeper dimples

                        You’re such the child.

Why you like me why were friends

just after midnight,  Wednesday,  29  4. 26

0852,  Wednesday

Noodle & Pals  We All Fall Down  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qn63lj0hNI

. . . Im concerne. .

. . No.

         No you’re not.

You’re a flaming luddite, unwilling, stubbornly unwilling to learn the new technologies, their applications, despite them all around you, whether on computer or the smartphone you own that you had your daughter neuter, turn it, virtually, into a hapless flip phone.

    Thas a great puss

                          Tha which you call technology is nothing more than a conduit to sell products make people lazy dumbem down makeem dependent

Im not a consumer save for food I eat or drink All I want from the damn thing is to make receive calls texts

occasional photographs

I rarely use the camera

    That’s unfortunate, there’s a big world you’re missing out on.

By choice

              By my choice

AIs limited comprehension of human beings is narrowing us  asif we havent already  our ongoing inequality our have have-nots  were being neuralised more an more by AI as we accept them guiding us narrowlyjah down aisles of its making wha its determined  which is apparently reasonable rational to you

Were giving up the  friction  Its called tribology

                                                    Were losing out on debates losing out on arguments were not considering that at the edges of this machine-streamlining  at its edges like at the edges of creeks streams rivers the very oceans  how the watercourse is not straightforward at its edges the whirling eddies backflow backtracking  reiteration

I cherish that

Im not going to be pushed in the back into something    something as abysmal as tha

they sat opposite each other drinking coffee in adirondack chairs he handmade

                                                                                      You know, man.

You’re a dyed-in-the-wool luddite.

Nice

           Handsome take on long ago knitting mills    

Wednesday,  15  4. 26

1239,  Tuesday,  28  4. 26

https://www.machinerylubrication.com/tribology-31340

https://www.history.com/articles/who-were-the-luddites

Whard it go?

nice refreshing   good to hear someone other than he at his lingo

                                                                       smiling   Howzat

Whard it go?

It was just here a moment agohuh

                                       Crazyjah

If I stand you can see

with that he stood

                    the bulge right of his navel to his side reappeared  Got a highlight pen

Can mark sides above below so when I lay again you have  somewhat  its territory

Good idea.

                 he made couple of inch lines to localise it

laying back down the doctor Jason saw right off he was lefthanded  he trusted lefthanders to righties  began manipulatingpalpitating it 

                                 This is crazy.

Tell me about it

                  Had something like this occur to me on the left side years ago  After sixseven months it dissipated

Coud be rearing its ugly head again

You said your cat jumped on your stomach.

Bomber did Orange tabby goes twentyfive pounds minimum  His old man Robert is dense but Bombers outdone him

 

    Jason continued pressinpushin with his fingertips palms

                                                                  I don’t know what it is, my manipulations aren’t painful?

Only pressure

                 Rises to the definition of  maybe   tender

    Okay.

            I’m gonna have you go for an ultrasound. I’ll be right back with the order.

Thank you Jason

 

at the imaging center

                        a young female technician no nametag he preferred calling people by their names Please  Whas your name

Helen.

Theres a throwback

                      Named for Helen of Troy

No, my aunt, my mother’s favorite sister.

Know my Helen

No.

Mythology

            A compliment  She was believed the most beautiful woman in the world

Yaint shabby kid yacan understand

Helen blushed

Looks good on you

                      But back to the caper  The injury occurred six weeks ago

And you’re first seeking help?

Had shingles

                Did not want to risk anyone

Shingles. I understand they’re painful.

Everyone does

                 Jah

If you’d take off your shirt. her wish was his command   That’s curious lookingdoes it hurt?

Tender at worst

    Okay.   I’ll have you lay on the table.

as he laid she turned to her machineapplied a lubricant to the imaging wand

                                                                                       turning back

Whard it go?

Thasits nickname

                   The urgent care physician Jason said exactly the same  It tickles me you used its appellation

He used a marker to define its territory

Helen was adamantwent at it with her device

                                                                bupkis

If I stand  then maybe you can hit it

    Yes.

Ever do an ultrasound on a standing man or woman

No.  I have not.

she didnt then

                      I’m sorry, I have to get someone to help me. I’ll be right back.

 

Helen returned following an older womanno Helen  she also wasnt wearing a nametag

he was standing

                     Good morning  Whas your name

all business Mary

Good morning Mary Im Joe

terse  harrumphed Morning. must have interrupted her coffee break  she eyed his lump

                                                                                     If you’ll lay on the table.

he did

turned towards the machine she applied lubricant to the wand

                                                                     turned again

Whard it go?

    Helen  Did you share lumps name

I did not.

 

 

Mary completed the ultrasound

it was evaluated

deemed negative

Joed have to wait a month for his physician to see him to order a C/T scan

Whard it go? was diminishing day by day

                                                a good possibility that by then Whard it go? would have gone

2040,  Monday,  27 4. 26

1045,  Tuesday,  28  4. 26

I thought this was an interview

It is.

Awright  Ifso ZOOM shoud be oughta be plenty sufficient

I’m asking if it’s oka . .

. . To use an AI Assistant to record transcribe

                                                 Visual isnt enough 

Youll excuse me  Feels more like an interrogation

                                                         You reached out to me

No

No?

No  thank you

                   Obscenely granular  Excessive

This is for an important position in our firm.

Jah   Youve vetted meyoure pursuing me

                                                          shaking his head  No

he watched her on the screenher expressions

                                                   Nobodys said no  Or have they

I can’t say.

You cant Youre not the only recruiter

                                           You honestly cant say no

No one has said no to me.

First time for everything

                                  Are we going to proceed   Times awastin

I’m, I am happy to proceed.

not what her face said

                           Tells

hed been in business long enough

                                     pre allconsuming technology  pre lead around by the nose by machines that so many seem to value over their own experiences  sensibilities

    Youre not happy

                        Tellya wha  Lets do this

You reorient

Then call me back on the phone

Shoud be enough shoud provide sufficient data exchange

Data?

    Oh you know it 

1037,  Wednesday,  15  4. 26

1413,  Monday,  27  4. 26

Deep Purple  Lazy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtK63l541mw

he looked her square in the face

                                    Genetics

    That’s your excuse for not listening to me?

Its not tha Im not listenin

                                Sometimes your mouth moves I cant hear you

I try to interrupt

You ask me not to

By tha point Ive lost the context of whaya were sayin

I try to press it

I piss you off

               Yasay  Would you just listen

    I coudnt hear you

                        Anjah   Genetics

Presbycusis  Old hearing

                             Trouble capturing high frequencies

Sorry kiddo your voice is high

her expression wasnt buying it

My Dad   My Dad began wearing hearing aids midsixties

    He says when he cant hearhasnt his hearing aids in  Um hmm

                                                                        I slap the kitchen tablestartle him

He looks directly at me

Ill point to my ears exaggerate my mouth as I ask  Wearing your hearing aids 

Whadaya want me to say

                             Excuse me all to hell when I try to interrupt

Whaya say is is important to me

It feels rude.

               You interrupt a lot.

Not all my interruptions are because I cant hear you

                                                        I disagree

Ansorry  Ill apologise now for later

                                     I disagree  no matter who the person is thas speaking Im interrupting

I don want for one moment they or you think I agree withem or you

Rude  Im equal opportunity

    she sneered

Ya know me to be otherwise

No.  No.

             You’re true to form.

Howbout this

                 If I say aah

 Code.

Our code

We can try.

We can

           Everything you say to me is important

Whether we agree or not

    We good

she smiled  great fuckin dimples  

1018,  Wednesday,  15  4. 26

1024,  Monday,  27  4. 26

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559220/