tucked in the seatback ahead of him a brochure

                                                         Your European Summer Begins

read it as felon bumbledstumbled into the debacle with an obliterated nuclear Iran

                                                            as his inept presidential cabinet has determined

                                                                 fearful of Irans imminent nuclear threat

                                                                           their nuclear ambitions

                                                              a violent neighbour has a handgun

                                                              who wouldnt want one to protect themselves

                                                           particularly a neighbour who while in negotiations

                                                                            has attacked them

                                                                                   twice

 

                                                                              Americas nose aint clean

European Summer?

    he hadnt any extravagant plans

a friend buddyboy said he wanted to go to Eastern Europe

                                                                  ended up in Asia

following an errant notion of getting laid

    Motherfucker he counseled him go to Nevada brothels galore save yourself some coin

he should have counseled him to save himself some frustration too

                                                                       but lunkhead four years  has missed shes a friend

in Asia she was finally blunt

                                  I’m not sexually attracted to you. OUCH                                                        

                                                                                                          

   not heading to Europe

                            America has too much to offer and hed take advantage of her when the Strait is untwisted and gas prices fall

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brothels  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brothels_in_Nevada

 Stellar Snacks

     niche

aircraft pretzels  somebody was mighty clever

they were labeled  Maui Monk

Hmm

        reading the fine print found Maui onions  Monk fruit?

                                                                               they were awfully tasty

he nibbled his sipped Seagrams Ginger Ale sipped Buffalo Trace Bourbon separate

 

later summonsed a flight attendant with the overhead lighted button hadnt done that since he was a kid crossed his fingers

leaning forward he was in the middle seat she asked  Yes, how can I help you?

                                                occasionally crossed fingers worked

                                                       thanked his lucky stars

                                                        also apparently stellar

                                                        a cheap thrill satisfied

she was buxom

                 blouse top few buttons unbuttoned       Thank you

    May I have some pretzels a ginger ale a Buffalo Trace please

Of course, I’ll be right back.

being he was at the back of the plane right back was nearlyinstantaneous

the gloss of her last treat hadnt exited his eyes

                                                  leaning again served him   wholly amped him

 

    had he mentioned Alaska was his favourite airline  

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https://www.lakanto.com/blogs/food-nutrition/meet-monk-fruit-a-small-fruit-with-big-benefits?srsltid=AfmBOoplylg_409iTLMlGDRcYVU1-gRfCMQvkUOho9iSz7wc_h9Kar8m

White Stripes  The Hardest Button to Button  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE

he was packed in row 33 seat E like a winged tin of fish sardine  mackerel

                                                                                playing a numbersgame

seats

         he came up with onefiftysix

them filled  occupied  by occupied contestants voyeurs cosplayers  digitally-tickled balls cocks clits brother Bob interrupts  hes not really there  just in his head  I told you, wouldya quit, quit, keep a civil tongue in your head. Quit saying tickled.

his row accounted for six seats

                                       six silos

sick

      no one conversed with the passenger beside them  earbuds headphones aplenty  three he saw wore iPhones strapped into goggles  VRers  virtual reality  ARers  augmented reality

    reality appears insufficient

wherever

whatever

whoever they may be

                        he couldnt say

hed have to question someone who preferred to be someone other than who or what they were

    but he understood

                          his spirit animal  the buffalo  he inhabited some of its characteristics but not that he wanted to shapeshift into one

convincing cosplayers personalities hed run into

                                                         the old sameold story

if one believes something is true

a lie repeated enough morphs into truth

if one believes they are they are

the mind can be a powerful hallucinogen

if it can muster a lucid dream

                               finesses  it has the ability to alter to augment to turn narratives direct its own storyline  liberate itself from a theme that was loaded in some fashion like a serial episode outside of any serial context  a prequel sequel aired  disjointed  untouched by a lucid operation 

a common straight narrative which days months years later is seed is fertile soil for a different arrangement

Where did that come from?

                                        No fuckin’ idea.

a transformation so complete that their physics refuses to allowaccept the physics that paralleled them  invaded inhibited it  host/parasite  mold mushroom dispersing spores

                                                   there remains the slightestsliver of continuity

                                                  exceptionalseldom used words beginning with X

                                                                      followed by Z

                                                                                      followed by Y

it doesnt matter from where they come

                                                    theyve come

 

he might suppose his numbersgame wasnt drasticallydifferent than what his fellow passengers played

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Chicago Transit Authority  Beginnings  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-BMDnti4c