laying in a hot tub washcloth over his eyes he listened to the three antique clocks once owned by his uncle deceased that family members given first crack decided they didnt want either unattractive or not antique enough to bring a good market price – Emma Emma Lazarus Lazarusperfect Lazarus of Bethany Jesus raised from the dead he took the ticking orphans maintained them wound themtheir tick tock tick tocks synchronised hourgongs likewise Emma wrote The New Colossus the poem at the foot of the Statue of Liberty at the rate felons ruining America could figure any day now hell raze Liberty erect himself only way hell get hard waving byebye to Europe maybe erecting a Newer Colossus on the West Coast not that California Oregon Washington would put up with that shit waving buhbye to Asia – his point “Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” he could have stopped at yearning to breathe free but since having memorised recited that portion of the poem for Junior High History it hadnt departed his memorypinged around inside his skull yearning to be free at the oddest times

                                                                                                  they GONGed

Eleven in the evening

he peeled the washcloth off his face before they stopped

                                                            Family  he thought  people  business folk

Make decisions for their benefit

Theyll lie

Theyll cheat

Thats human nature

    You may not be human

Eavesdroppin

You were being louder than you thought 

If not why are youse here

For your benefit

                    Consider us a wall to throw a ball against so it bounces back to you

So you neednt have to chase 

                                 Fetch

   

2208,  Sunday,  10  5. 26 & 1945,  Monday,  11  5. 26

1003,  Tuesday,  12  5. 26