Youre okay with its refrain its chorus
I’m okay.
Okay
I actually thought you had something else up your sleevesomething patently you
Patently me?
grinned like a blackbacked jackal was partial Jah
What would be patently me?
Ohreally
Youre okay with its refrain its chorus
I’m okay.
Okay
I actually thought you had something else up your sleevesomething patently you
Patently me?
grinned like a blackbacked jackal was partial Jah
What would be patently me?
Ohreally
Consciousness:
. . . the ability to suffer.
That about sums it up
1900, Sunday,
15 2. 26
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/08/michael-pollan-psychedelics-consciousness
I don
Where would you rather be
You see them.
You do
You do because youre always talking about sizinem up comparinem to yourself wha a waste of time
What if one of them wanted to kick your
ass?
Why
Why do guys kick other guys asses?
Theres no reason for me to look at men
he didnt mind dampening his spirits If one likes basketball
somewhatsnarled If I invited you you’d be singing a different
song.
You offer
My point
But you had a good time
I did.
So . . . halftime . entertainment
by lotsa women.
They’re at least eighteen.
An youre not
Hierarchy
Come on, you must remember high school
basketball halftimes.
Wha year
Year?
Frosh soph junior senior
Senior year.
Closest to college age
Yes.
An wha about senior year
The pageantry. The girls.
You can’t . . . what do you mean you can’t
confirm?
Halftime I beat it out of the gymnasium to sip some Jack blow a joint with buddies return for the second half
No prancing girls
Really?
I said
Why would you do that?
Why did you do tha
Those were the best looking girls.
I care to differ
These women were mighty goodlooking.
Prancing pomp an circumstance
You’re teasing.
I am
Nice face
You want to hear or not?
I want to hear it seen through your eyes
The flag wavers first.
Flag wavers
Flags Banners On pointy lances
I didn’t notice.
Coud they have impaled you
I don’t know I didn’t notice.
How many
What? How many?
Does that matter?
Im assuming theyre base for this heighty
hierarchy
Hell. Ten, twelve.
Thank you
You . . . something else to say?
Im listening
The burgeoning beauties havent arrived yet Next
Next were the cheerleaders.
What’s with knowing their number?
Thank you
Im assuming theres a cherry on top no pun intended may not be cherries by college
Song girls
They’re the dancers danced . shook it to
the music.
Wha music an why song girls if theyre
dancers Id think theyd be dance girls
We called them that in high school.
Aah
Thank you
You don’t remember high school
basketball games as an underclassman?
I played
I’m talking varsity basketball.
Not as frosh soph played varsity junior
year bounced midseason for tellin the coach to fuck himself
What are you talking about?
I deserved the bench deserved playing
time didnt have to win every game by forty points by blowouts to make him feel
superior manly clown refused to play me
one on one had eight inches on me
Why senior year when I was immediately cut
when I showed for tryouts At games we
went outside to sip an toke
Song girls the hottest of the three
phalanxes ten twelve jah
Yes.
An you made eye contact with one
I did. She looked me in the eyes.
I did. What?
You can tell yourself tha
A larger sample size
Yareally ought to
Errol Garner Misty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOLEEkYO4MA
It’s, it’s my name.
You recognise her
I didn’t.
But you admitted your namewha the hells wrong with you
She didn’t.
But you found her attractive
I did.
There’s a correct reply?
Id say there was
Whad I say
Whaya shoud have said
What should I have said?
Ill give ya a moment to think it over
You were interviewing?
I understand theyre two way a conversation
Applying for a job.
A good company will answer its employeesanswer to their employees
Or its not
You applied because you needed a job?
Who wants to know
Who wants to know?what the hell are you
talking about?
When she asked if you were who she thought you were attractive or not doesnt require you to mollify appease them
You think thas rude
Kind of.
Kind of
Thasaid
You wanthave to have people like you
“Nevertheless, as we have already
pointed out, the consciousness of play being ‘only pretend’ does not in any way
prevent it from proceeding with the utmost seriousness…”
play is fundamental
a primary element of human culture
homo ludens man the player versus homo sapiens sapiens
if he had to be a homo
hed pick the player
https://merton.bellarmine.edu/files/original/b0899cfad820ab8ad7033952b7a022ba1d7cab9d.pdf