riot nonsense

just heard of Dylans I and I

then listened to it

how had he missed it

the album  Infidels

 

I and I

ionise

antagonise

in – disposed

in – repose

inert

in – heat

I needed

          you   u

u an u

u me u

me u me

    ought to be entrees on a Chinese menu

a bordello shingle

 

   its pleasant

              its nice   to riot nonsense

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Dylan  I and I  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiByFXx3-Ig 

Ya do whaya got to do

last night he set an alarm  an alarming clock

he hadnt set one since last year

couldnt remember for what

he could however

                      remember setting alarms since he was a boy delivering newspapers

he had to get up in the morning for school

might as well make some scratch going into the day

                                                           he was compelled

by the necessity to buy what clothes he wantedwhat books he wantedwhat records he wantedwhat liquor he wanted  on account of his ability to convince someone twentyone years old  or older  to buy him and his Irish twin  who  when they returnedlaughed at them until they revealed baseball bats they had concealed in the weeds along the parking lots chain link fence No booze No headlights possibly  No knees

which is what it was like to contend with two headstrong boys

he set alarms from then until recently virtually every day

                                                             typically 5AM  except weekends

after he quit his paper route of ten years

 

Were you crazy

Nah

        Was making ends meet

Ya do whaya got to do

Did you ever hurt anybody in the parking lot

 

 

Thas not a question to ask after I  just   said

                                                     Ya do whaya got to do

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Pete Townshend  Rough Boys  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buuIl65pyzM

he called to talk with his brother

his young niece picked up the iPhone  Yes?

Knucklehead  Yasay hello not yes

Who are you?

I know who I am who are you

I can’t see you.

No  Anya wont

Papa. It's for you.

Arya havin a good day

 

 

Hello?

Brother Whard knucklehead go

You’re not on FaceTime.

I am not

           Will not

She’s not interested in talking if she can’t see who she's talking to.

I guess we wont be talkin

She’ll talk your ear off if you do.

Nah  I wont

               Like all my relationships

I carry them out in threeD  face to face  not some twoD flat projection

                                                                             But thas me

Voices have worked since Alexander Bell Bell Telephone Eighteenseventyseven

Each their own

Hows it swinging cracked himself up

                                        I tell ya I called Sis an she answered How’s it swinging?

Sis?

Jah  Caught me off guard

                               Slayed me

Slayed her too  

Her laugh sounds like Maws

It does.

Jah it does

             An infectious laugh

Yes theirs are.

Jah

        I miss Maw

I miss her too.

 

 

So what’s cooking?

Thought Id touchup with you

                                 Seems I don call we don talk

Seems you’re right.

 

    they talked

 

Lilac candies

Lilac?

    No  Wrong   Screwed thaup often

                                              Violet candies

Yes. Violet candies.

Not here

Here.

When I visit next Ill have to stop  Where

At virtual every candy counter.

Good to know

                   Lilacs  I love the scent of lilacs warmed by the sun

Yeah. Me too.

               Also verbena.

Verbena

Sounds like you’re not familiar.

Im not

Lemme say this, if my lot were larger I’d plant lilacs and verbena everywhere.

                                                                                    My place would smell like Heaven.

Heaven  Capital H or heaven small h

Capital.

            Only reason why I’m going.

Motherfucker  You sound too confident

                                            Things must have changed with you since I left home

Tame

No.

Pussywhipped

Yes.

          Helps me get in touch with my feminine side.

Or touch it

I can’t talk about that.

A motherfucking gentleman  

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friend in his head it sounded like Karloffs blackanwhite Frankenstein monster addressing the old man

        occasionally discussing this or that friend would take offence then go off on a tear a bluster flushred in a firm and abiding faith belief his becoming irrational torrent would sweep him away  toss his opposing stance on its head

                      stance  stand

all this time he still didnt get it

     

chalk it up to his short memory

there was no need to remind him

by the following week hed forget

                                       Man, you’re full of shit, talking through your hat.

You’re not listening to me.

Im listening  Im hearing

                            You have yet to state your source

Im listening

I don’t know who they wer . .

. . They

You gonna hang me with they?

Each an every time  You know better

                                        Make an argument with me anya better come armed with who they is

Where Ill find your facts

    incensed  The fact . I’m telling you ought to be sufficient.

shaking his head no  Ya know better 

                                        Not in my book

the flushred in his face was beginning to look as if a tourniquet was wrapped around his throat  it deepening   purpling

I have an idea

I’m not susceptible.

Best be  Looks like your ready to stroke out

                                                 Its a good idea

What?     

Lets take a breath   Breathe

                                 Then for a temporary validation of whaya understand

We be silent for fifteen seconds

                                   Not a word

Silence

Agreeable

he grunted

Ill take tha as a yes

 

 

he thought  Provocation Coercion   Was where he started

                                                                 Might he do something about that

No

Nope

the blood had drained out of his face

    Better

Bit better.

Occasionally I have a good idea

Let’s not get carried away.  

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Frankensteins friend  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7BO_hqe_q0

a shallow scallopclouded sky

wonderful to be greeted by

                                a blue brightmorning   birdsongs  

catcalls

        Yall know the routine

Go on grimley

spook

ashe

Robert

wee

bigfoot

his  yeshis    ferals

                          bigfoot approaching thirteen years wee eleven Robert seven ashe five spook  fouranahaf

grimley  not hafayear

he feeds

waters

pets

     not Robert  thatd be a mistake  hed tear his hand off if he tried Robert  the feralest   fiercest

he tried to have them look up

                                coaxed   Youre missing it

they sideeye him

                     Imeatin  Bug off

Awright  

        he got it  he dated  hes been turned down before  

 

returning inside his four tamed quiet  theyd revolt ferals  october the dame her offspring shy leftie bomber

    he proudly boasts

                          I run a cathouse 

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the older he got the more things hustled himcrowded him  shoved him in the back

                                                                                         but such is the bane

wonder  of a long long memory that hes honed with a grindstone wheel and steel

REGRETS

No

    Come now   REGRETS

Deef  No 

               None

memories pushed

hed admit sometimes its hard   hurts

                                             but every time  precious   delectable     PRICELESS

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