. . . found it at Salvation Army.

Not your usual

                   Usually thrift stores

Usually, yes, but occasionally.

How do you decide

Depends what the item is or are that we’re looking for.

Ah

Clothing, we tend to lean Army. We’ve found it saves us time and time’s money, so if we pop for a little extra it’s worth the time we’ve saved.

Smart shoppers

                   But women tend to be

 

The way you said . . . I don’t know if that was a compliment or not.

Compliment  Know how you got there

    How we got there?

Your mothers

Our mothers?

Did your brother Darcys brotherI don know if she has one  Did your brother go shopping with you your Mom your three sisters

    I . can’t . . . No . . I can’t remember him coming with us.

There you have it

Have it?

The edge in my voice thaya picked up on

                                            My brothers and Ischool shopping  went out on a Saturday with our mother and sisters

We were done licketysplit

                             Next twothree hours waiting on our sisters

Sometimes four when my Mom was also lookin for clothing

Eesh.

You can say tha againquestion

What’s that?

Changing rooms

None of the thrifts or Salvation Army have changing rooms any longer

Howstha work

If looking for blouses, tops, sweaters, we were tshirts.

Pants

We try to give each other cover, drop trou.

Arent the stores surveilled by cameras

Yes.

Do they hire to watch the camera

I would suppose so.

Thas a job I coud do

                       Itd be so nice so comforting to be able to submit a resume attesting to my deep thorough abiding history as a voyeur

 

 

I understand Darcys curvy

The gal’s built.

Next time youre thrifting woud ya might asking if theyre hiring

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1426,  Thursday,  19  3. 26

brevity

was a fan

granularity

a big fan

concision  precision

wouldnt let go of his cock

 

Chesterton hard to find a book by him

                                     “There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought to be stopped.”

poetry

You think thas poetry

English haiku

No

Were arguin

The traditional Japanese three-line poe . .

. . Seventeen syllables  Im aware

    You interrupted

I did

 

Arranged in  five seven   five  structure

 

 

he let tha hang

                  didnt want to interrupt

but as soon as hisher mouth started movin

                                                Focusing on nature  imagery   a specific moment in time

Rules

         Are meant to be broken

 

Then yashoudnt describe it haiku

Said English haiku

                     Was close

Sixteen syllablesyoud have shit if it was seventeen

 

                                                         Had a stutter  Coud have made it 

Youre a real pain in the ass

    I feel like a child

                       Jahwell

Takes one to know one

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1140,  Thursday,  19  3. 26

FIVES AGAIN

Hold onto your briggs

laughingshe slapped her knee

                                 Says the man whose constantly tryin to get me out of ‘em. 

Thas not changed  a matter of sayin

Whaya saying?

    First

Hold onto your briggs

feisty  grabbed ahold of them fingers through beltloops

                                                            Jah.

Jah  Nice

Thought you’d like that.

I do I do

             A word

We goin’ fishin’?

No  Not one hook

One word?

One

 

Okay. I got’em.

                     Whatya got?

Antient

Ancient.

No  Antient

              Archaic spelling of ancient  A  N  T  I  E  N  T   From a remote period

Ainttha sweet

bemused smile bemused dimpleswho knew

                                                   Sweet.  Crazy sweet the things that tickle you.

You can let go of your briggs

By the look on your face if I do I may be in trouble.

Aint no better trouble aint no better way to pass the time of day

    Or night.

Jah

 

Come over here and make me.

sometime in February,  2026

1053,  Thursday,  19  3. 26

he crawled back into bed

crawled too heavy

                       You’re up?

No  Sorry   Go back to sleep

                                Hold me.

he snugged up behind her arm across her side hand on her breast

                                                                                       Nice. Thank you.

was breathing heavy in no time

he closed his eyes

listened to her

felt her chest rise  fall

against his little finger her heart beat

she was his white noise to gentle him back to sleep

                                                        facing the bureau the hands of the clock atop read

fourfiftyfive or five to five

    thought  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAYSqTu5_ZY

thought  numerology

                         means freedom  adaptability  adventure  curiosity

free spirit

mouthed Thad be me

 

 

Babe. Wake up.

    Up

Yes, up, you’ve that meeting and I hate the sound of your alarm.

                                                                      Get up.

when he woke he always kept his eyes shut woke in the dark  he imagined scenes scenarios  full of light an color an movement or sinking into the earth where no light leaked in order to see

    Babe.  Time to get up.

Whas the time

Five to seven.

    Sixfiftyfive

Sure.

        Sixfiftyfive.

Five

What?

Nothing opened his eyes

                         she sat on the edge of the bed facing him naked

Youre so beautiful

I hope we do this every morning for the rest of our lives

smiled  deepdeep dimples  Without the alarm.

Jah

       No alarm

I could do that.

0455,  Thursday,  19  3. 26

0955 of course it is,  Thursday

5  https://www.numerology.com/articles/about-numerology/single-digit-number-5-meaning/

Chicago  Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FzCWLOHUes

von Humboldt

 

she smiled freakin dimples

                            What?

A commanding name

He has a first name.

He does

 

Are you going to share it?

Ifya gotta know  Alexander  But I thought von Humboldt compellingwoud pique your interestbecause  youll be interested in this  in him

You . . . sound mighty confident.

I know you

    Well, let’s find out.

THBBFT

Really?

           Gonna play Bill the Cat’s greatest hit?

I like it better than pshaw

Nobody uses pshaw.

    I just didbut lets get on with itvon Humboldt

von Humboldt.

Jah

       Father of ecologySEE     I got your attention

You did.

           Doesn’t get you across the finish line.

 

Quote

        Everything is interaction and reciprocal.

    Okay okay.

Another quote however Ive augmented it to reflect todays agevon Humboldt wrote in late Eighteenth early Nineteenth Century

                      He said  Nature everywhere speaks to [woman] in a voice familiar to [her] soul.

    You’re so clever.

                          Sold.

How did you find von Humboldt?

von Humboldt

                 Cited in Pollans How to Change Your Mind

This in regards to psilocybin

                               The forest as the earths internet the neurological network of nature  sweet sweet alliteration

Polan was in conversation with Paul Stamets Stamets remarked tha plants mushrooms have intelligence  they prefer we take care of the environment

Quote

        We humans are the most populous bipedal organism . . . so some plants and fungi are interested in enlisting our support.  I think  Stamets  though I agree  they have consciousness and are constantly trying to direct our evolution by speaking out to us biochemicall . .

. . This is why you dig shrooms?

Ive been eatinem a long timewell  well before this book came ou . .

. . Because . . you were a hippie.

I wasnt

That’s not what your buddies say, not what your family says.

    I do not identify with groups

A free spiri . .

. . With hippieish tendencies.

They  they exhibited free spiritness

    Spiritedness?

Spiritness  My coin

                               They direct our evolution by speaking out to us biochemically.

We just need to be better listeners.

                                      The end

Bingo.  I am as interested as you thought.

he smiled  wishing he had her dimples as she smiled a big smile        

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0849,  Thursday,  19  3. 26

Blood, Sweat & Tears  You’ve Made Me So Very Happy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjZtRAoITP0

Chicago  Happy Man  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHfw0dV5BII

I have to read this to you

You don’t.

I really do

wrinkling her nose Why don’t you bookmark it, I’ll read it later.

I think Bill the Cat said it best

    Bill the Cat.

THBBFT

           Bloom County

Bloom County?

Come on pointed at the bookshelf Theres eight books right there

                                                                     Berke Breathed

Nom de’plume?

Woudya take tha as a nom de’plumeNo

I’m not familiar.

Weve been living together for years anya havent perused any of th . .

. . Any?

Jah

she tipped her head like a bird listening for worms

                                              How many would you say any is?

    A lot

They’re everywhere.

Ive gone through yourslooked throughem

You brought a glut.

Jah

Would you admit you’re a . . . glutton?

    Havent thought of it tha way

Think.

 

laughed

                  I concede   Will you concur

Lemme hear it.

I concede

I concur.

You know how warm an fuzzy tha makes me feel

Yes.

       Apparently in the bargain I got a little rise out of you.

Yadid  Want more

If I say yes, will you bookmark it?

 

 

Tellya wha

I can’t wait to hear.

    Ill go down on you

                          Anwhen you’re good an wet I’ll rea . .

. . Deal. she may have thought he was bluffin  peeled off her pants and panties

                                                                                Bab muffled

Thaquic  muffled

                      burying his noserocking his head side to side kneesup biceps at thighs book in handheld above her pubicbone  “In absolute dark . . . you turn inward. It is the true dark that one’s mental scenes are most full of light and color and movement, as if the dark of a cave were the secret pathway to our own inner world, the same path taken by our hominin brothers and sisters, who went down into the earth where no light leaked in order to see.”

panting  Again.

    he beganshe went offnear broke his nose 

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1455,  Wednesday

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