Prometheus just ended

                         he didnt bingebut  what he did do was watch three of the Alien installments over three evenings  Alien: Romulus  Alien: Covenant

he was a fan

science fiction tickled him since he was a kidparents didnt allow it in the house

they were adamant only literature was read

                                                     he had to leave the house to read  

he hidaway paperbacks in the unused leaning garage at the back of the yard where he kept his Radio Flyer wagon that he delivered his paper route by

because he delivered the news every day he drew no suspicion when he went to it

    he had a cohort in this subterfuge

uptown not five blocks off Charlie an old manwas an old man when they met ran a small bookstore wedged between Franklins Five and Dime and the bank where he saved his money

he wandered in the books smelled fantastic

                                                Boy.

Charlie always called him Boyknew his name was Joe but called him Boy

                                                                                How can I help?

Im gonna throw myself on your mercy  Im only allowed to read schoolbooks at home

Whell, you’ve come to the right place.

Charlie fed him a steady diet of what his parents would not have wanted him to read

for delivering papers he got paid a penny apiece

Charlie shaved a nickel off every paperback he bought

                           

                                                              the majority  science fiction

    as Prometheus credits rolledtipping his head back to finish a bottle of beerscaling the wall was a fleet daddylonglegs  asif they recognised he recognised them

he watched it ascend into the cornertuck themselves between the wall and ceiling

                                                                                       hunker

he said aloud Im no threat friend

                                     Welcome to Hotel California

he paused

he always expected one day or another one or another creature he spoke to would talk back

 

he smiled

          replayed the spiders ascent in his eyes and wished

the textured walls were sloppy wet and the spider was an octopus

                                                                            thatd be one for the books

 

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1056,  Sunday,  17  5. 26

Prometheus trailer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfiUCrfbLgY

Beatles  Paperback Writer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZCViOokEY

Prince and the Revolution  Raspberry Beret  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7vRSu_wsNc

Eagles  Hotel California  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLl4PZtxia8