talking over the phone

I was not feeling well earlier.

Im sorry to hear tha

                         Wha ailed you

I couldn’t put my finger on it.

Blue

Depressed?

Blue  Blues blue not depression

                                      Off

Im askin only because I stuck my foot in it early part of this week

                                                                          Only oddly blue

Mine was more.

                   I told my boss I wasn’t into it, I was leaving. I told them I’d already punched out.

They were awfully cool.

Hows tha

She offered to bring by some chicken soup.

She a Jew

             Chicken soups the answer to everything tha ails ya

You’re not being anti-semiti . .

. . Hell no

          Oh hell no

'

Chicken soup woud do ya wonders

I thanked her but declined.

She told me it was no trouble. She had just made some and she’d be going right pass her place to get to mine.

Your boss knows where you live

We knew each other in a past life. We were social. Dumb luck we ended up working for the same company.

So did you let her

No.

      I told her that was kind, very generous, but I just needed to work through whatever was tasking me.

nodding to himself

                  Coud I let you in on a little secret smiled wrily

I hear you grinning.  That’s not helping your caus . .

. . Your cause is my cause

 

What’s your little secret?

Cant tell a soul

I won’t.

Swear it

I . .

. . Swear it

    I swear.

Awright

 

Jews don tell gentiles

                         It humoursem They have a tremendous sense of humour I loveem

What?

    Your boss brought you chicken soup youd heat it maybe have saltines with it

                                                                                        Matzo ball best

Yeah.

No

          Room temperature Puree it

Come on. Puree it. Not going to make a big different.

Woud

How?

They don tell gentiles

                              They mainline it

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2035,  Sunday,  11  1. 26

had called his brother for the New Year  was about time

                                                                  Wha the hells with this family

What?

A stent

Yeah. What of it?

Youve a stent

Repeatedly.

Your daughternow has a stent    Unfortunately

Yeah.

I have a stint

What?alarmed  When did you get one?for what?

A matter of vernacular

What?bewildered

Your stents  S  T  E  N  T  mines  S  T  I  N  T

                                                       Doin time   Humours the best medicine

Asshole.

1204,  Sunday,  11  1. 26

    human hubris take tha Tolkien

what this animal does best

he has a friend who takes exception to being referred to as an animal

                                                                             he would

he has little consideration or compassion for “things” less than human

                                                                           humancentric

                                                                            apexhuman

I cant believe you left the church

What do you mean?

Genesis One Line Twentyeight

                                   . . . fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth

Seems to me you an church ought to be strokin your cocks fiddlin your clits

                                                                                  I know youre offended by masturbation

Why

No clue

 

Why would you know that off the top of your head?

Hey Some things part of indoctrination stick You can take the boy out of Chicago cant take Chicago out of the boy

Dominion  Domination

                           In other words  submission

I do not submit

    You

If a squirrels in the road you don brake

It takes its chances.

It

Yes.

 

 

What?

It

Mammal

Your it is a he or a she

It doesn’t belong on the road.

Maybe the road winding through the hills the forest up to your house doesnt belong there

Park at the foot of the hills place your things in a cart tug it home

                                                                        Or maybe

Have a male or female animal help you

                                               Maybe

Youd gain some respect for a fellow earthling

 

guys cannister container is filled to the brim with human hubris sloshing over onto his feet

                                                                                                   rubbish

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1126,  Sunday,  11  1. 26

Canticle of the Sun of Saint Francis of Assisi by Tony Duquette

                                                                    his aunt worked there as a docent

she told him it had burned down

he was unfamiliar with the man or the installation

he asked a simple question of Google

                                        when did the Canticle of the Sun of Saint Francis of Assisi burn down

perhaps he should have mentioned San Francisco

despite the reams and reams of training data AI Overview had inhaled stored had accessed

IT replied

            “The Canticle of the Sun (or Creatures)(?) by (of – pay attention creep) Saint Francis of Assisi never ‘burned down’ because it's a poem, not a physical building or manuscript that was destroyed; it was written around 1224-1225, a pivotal spiritual work praising creation, and while its original text isn't physically preserved, its message endures through copies and inspired Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si’.”

   admittedly

                   he relishes AI errors

has no pity for those who hang their hats on ITs words

                                                           Do you understand suspect  suspicion

Do you cross reference do you research investigate

Do you haplesslywretchedly take IT at ITs word

Man, your problem, you’re obsessed, fuckin’ Luddite, need to come into the future or be left behind.

Go  I have plenty of company

                                  Ill relate to my books my life experiences  my exquisite memory

 

Like Duquette who was alive when his installation burned down witnessed it  he was reminded of Jack London when Wolf House was razed by some unknown everundiscovered arsonist

“I would rather be the man whose house burned than the man who burned it.” 

he couldnt imagine the heartbreak both men were forced to endure

    although  all systems end

January2, reggaefriday

1029,  Sunday,  11  1. 26

Tony Duquette  https://www.tonyduquette.com/canticle-of-the-sun#:~:text=In%20the%201980s%20Tony%20Duquette,patron%20saint%20of%20the%20city.

Laudato Si (Praise be to you, my Lord)    https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

https://jacklondonpark.com/wolf-house/ 

You put some legs on your email so I felt compelled to reply

compelled  to reply

                    tickled him  he was an awfullycheap date

since smartphones  distractions  social media texting emails have become scarce

                                                                                        not as scarce as letters

his father would say after retrieving the mail no letters  Nobody loves us

   to be sure

                his fathers letters to him were brief notes and newspaperclipped Today in History  occasionally a political cartoon  an article of interest to him

                                                                  because they interested him he read them

what actually interested him most of the Today in History  the cartoons  articles  was what was printed on the reverse sides  slivers of articles  often lacking context  which  like cutups  he contextualised with his imagination   

reverse side of ON DEC. 14  Every life story deserves to be told.  Share your loved one’s story at placeanad.chicagotribune.com  

    tickled him an awfullycheap date

                                          did they actually share their unedited uncensured story

left nothing out pimples blemishes warts  et al.

                                                   or presented perhaps unconvinced of unconditional love  carnival mirror reflections  comforting distortions

ON DEC. 15

             . . . people may use “accessibility” against delivery robots . . . the city doesn’t clear sidewalks along parks or on the bridges inaccessible for months for people in wheelchairs or with mobility issues.

the 14ths and 15ths angst   flipsides of the same coin

                                                                   that was his email reply   

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0912,  Sunday,  11  1. 26

The Box Tops  The Letter  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2b0bH-3xV0

She’s a weird kid. And she’s only four.

Youre fearin she only going to get weirder

Ohshit. I didn’t think of that.

 

    What?

I was lettinya think

What do you think?

Im at a distant remove You woud be the arbiter of family

                                                               I see youse once a year

If tha

But rest assured I knew tha when I moved away at twenty

Why weird

She emails.

Good for her

She emailed me her Christmas list.

Good for her wants people to know wha shed like from Santa an family

She asked for a pool table.

A couple days later I checked the list and it’d grown longer.

Youd expect a childs list to get shorter

                                              Really    Comon

Okay.  You’re correct.

On Boxer’s Day the family got together, we played games, one game we went around to family that remained and asked everyone, using the letter I, describe themselves.

 

You’re not curious?

Im listening

She said independent.

Wha I know of her spot on

She’s four.

Shes around adults all day long who all her life have not babytalked her

 

    She’s weird.

Says her aunt whose side of her family are freaks  

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1218,  Saturday,  10  1. 26