he had age spots on his face

couldnt complain

                   knew too many people who didnt get a shottoo many  who he viewed in their  was their right  they didnt select them  in their coffins and brayed silently that maybe their families didnt share enough coloured photos to drive home the point  how they looked while they were alive and kicking  he understood undertakers makeup cant makeup their deathsbut if movie stars celebrities look so fuckin good he knew they werent that good lookin why not kin and friends 

couldnt complain

    but he could ask

he asked his confidante his daughter

                                           Tell me whaya think

Sure. What ya got?

So youre buying bananas at the grocers Gloriousyellow  Perhaps a slight tinge of green

                                                                                              Jah

Yes.

Some days in they begin to speckle  Small dark spots 

Yes.

      Though not often.

Bananas, ovaries they laughed asif on cue.

                                                   Don’t often make it that long at our place.

But if they did

If small speckles we eat ‘em. Get too large. As I said, infrequent.

                                                                      Warm buttered banana pistachio bread.

Pistachios

            Im impressed

It’s delicious.

I can imagine

                        My question

Is it ripening

Or is it rotting

    Concerned about your age spots, Papa?

1114,  Sunday,  8  3. 26

2048,  Monday,  9  3. 26

she thought he was more enthusiasticenergetic than he ought to have been when she phoned  Daylight Savings he was notorious stayed up to two AM to move the hands on his clocks forward had a hafldozen two antiques that were his uncles that none of the rest of the family wanted they wanted the antiqueantiques  got them because he lived out of state when they told him of what remained he asked to be placed on speaker

                         Everyone gathered round

a murmur over the line  they concurred

I love it when people concur

                                  Everyone  Each an every one of you

Youre cunts

                When I can Ill gather the clocks

In the meantime whoevers holdinem for me  they befall any abuse

                                                                          Ill abuse you

he hungup

 

 

Im up

How are you chipper?

Chipper  Thank you  I came to grips with a couple of things this morning  so     Ive decided to cleared his throat Excuse me   cleared it again  Aww  There  Better

                                                             Ive decided to in all caps  HAVE A GREAT TIME

Bind the pair

    Bind?

Jah

I’m confused.

                 What pair?

Great an Time  In no particular order

                                             Time

 

 

What of it?

Tha had to do with this morning when Hallie verygently woke me

                                                                       I said  Cant we just . . .

She was insistent

                     No. We made commitments, have things to do, people to se . .

. . People to do things to see

Only person you’re doin’ is me.

True true

                    You realise don you

Realize what?

Its only a matter of it being Daylight Savings time

What’s the matter?

If today was yesterday    Wha time woud it be

Six AM

My point

             Im going back to sleep  Give me another hour

 

Hence   Time

 

And great?

Jah   

      Regards you

Me.  she was startled  

What . . me?

    Wha you

                   Jah wha you

 

Pleease  These past few months

Robert?

Robert

 

I knowyou haven’t said, you listen intently, you don’t say.

I do not

I’d really appreciate it if you would.

Ive no skin in the gam . .

. . We’ve been friends eons.

Thas not skin anya know it

 

Only you can make tha decision

    Robert. 

                  He’s great.

Completed my pair

Time.

Great.

    Question

You have a question?

 

 

 

What?

Does he make you happy

 

No.

         Listen to no one other than yourself

Ill seeya later

                   Hallie says I cant do ya

0742,  Sunday,  8  3. 26

1558,  Monday,  9  3. 26

sighed wasnt a big sigher so it stuck out like a sore thumb  Again

she grinned a knowing grin compleat with delicious dimples

                                                       Again.     Five.

Five

           Yathink one can be haunted by a number

Possibly. That would be the beauty of haunting.

                                                          You know its meaning in numerology.

No  Drat

          Who made you so smart

My Mommie and my Daddy.

Have my phone here.  Should I?with your permission.

chuckled  Permission     Granted

absently  I'll have to turn it on.

                                      Let’s see. 

Here we go.

It says

         The most vibrant, freedom-loving of all the numbers.

The number [five] is unpredictable, always in motion, and constantly in search of change.

Although it is molded from an almost equal mix of freedom-loving and loyal characteristics, the [five] is slightly more daring, and there is nothing submissive about it.

lookin up gazed at him

                                There’s nothing submissive about you. winked 

Jah  Im lousy at it when we play 

Not at all. winked again

smiling  wishing he had dimples

                             Thank yo . .

. . Ohno. Thank you. delicate dimples

Tell me about five.

    Maybe if you stayed overnight I woudnt have

I wasn’t staying.

                   You knew we knew, don’t put the blame on Mame, boy.

No no  I woudnt

                    I was just sayin leered

she laughed

                  Tell me.

You bugged I was exhausted went to bed early

You texted I love you a little after nine.

I went to bed

Woke to take a leak  five after midnight

Went back to bed slept hard

                              Dreamt  A riotous business debate

You were the friction, tribology.

I was

          My dreamingme cheerinon my dreamedme  No need to be lucid in this knockdown dragout

You won out?

I did

        Then lucidity stepped in  Time to take a leak  Woke

Fivetwentyfive

Went back to bedflitted between hypnagogic hypnopompicdon think I ever really slept   Called it a night

Sat up

Bedstand Timex hands  Seven thirty five

    Methinks you own it.

Methinks may very well be

                                they laughed

he was spending the night at her place

0525,  Monday(0955 now),  9  3. 26

https://www.worldnumerology.com/numerology-single-digit-numbers/numerology-meaning-of-5/

Rita Hayworth  Put The Blame On Mame   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY2IpSCV-Nk

tribology  https://www.machinerylubrication.com/tribology-31340

now 1035

Guten Morgen good morning good morning time to get this show on the road he announced as he gently set leftie down she and the gang had just finished breakfast  greeting his four indoor cats

                                                                                     his preamble  Hey gang Its Monday Ninth of March wha year not all at once  Jah  Correct The years Twentytwentysix got tha right

he did it as much for them as himself one foot in front of the other maintaining his wherewithal Ps an Qs keepin his oars wet driving through the water towards the horizon

he liked to think of it as a marvelous horizon than a waterfall  a high steep waterfall not one with many many short falls onto ragged rocks interrupting in his descent   

                                                                   figured since his birth  aided by castor oil

his maternal grandmothers two cents was rapid  why dillydally when dying

You understand, you don’t get to figure that.

I believe if you think tha through  I mean really think thathrough  youll realise youre wrong

Wron . .

. . I said think it   through

Wha . .

. . No

 

 

You mean suicide.

One well-thought-through-no-mistake-no-comin-back

                                                            No dillydallying

Precipitous

    Think of all the people who are minding their own business present than notsay schoolgirls in Iran

Had to go dark, didn’t you?

Being extreme gets the job done now

                                                No dillydallying

0849

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/even-trumps-team-hedges-on-his-claim-about-strike-on-girls-school-in-iran