askance

         lookingup at stainglass as he left the confessional   it appeared  very much a Harlequin joker dressed in a multicoloured unitard    it flickered he looked harder   no  a cluster of climbing lilies

    maybe the confession hurt his head

he didnt feel bad

                       when he confessed

Father took a deep breath he liked to think he was taking a token the incense erasingmodifying the scent  unlikely but one can hope

            Father took a deep breath

as he confessed he was treating his father  rewarding him  with DumDum pops  when his old man remembered which bank he wanted to go to

                                                 You have to understand  He only has two banks

He wants me to take him to the bank

Which bank I ask

Why do you have to give me a hard time, just take me to the bank.

Whas the name of the ban . .

. . Don’t argue with me, take me to the bank, I hate when you play games wit . .

. . I don play games

                            Tellya wha  You sleep on it

    So my father did Father

He remembered

Bell Savings.

Good boy

I gave him a DumDum

Funny

A pun

Tickled me

 

Elder abuse

Methinks not

 

 

Are you still there

    I am, my son.

Making my old man the butt of a joke

                                            All I got

I hope its a legit confession

Not a real tasty morsel to pass around the rectory Father

                                                                Ill try harder for next time

 

the sole reason he confessed was because his father wanted him to take communion with him  at the rail  on their knees

                   needed help getting back up

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1303,  Wednesday,  26  8. 26

I’m incapable of normalcy.

                             Takeshi Kovacs  Netflix series  Altered Carbon

possibly  he could relate

    Question

                     Whas normal

objective

subjective

whose opinion to trust

 

he freed flies

              five in the last few days

actually not moments earlier he herded a big black fly out of the laundry up the hall it went left into the kitchen

entering behind it he poppedopen an unscreened window doubledback to the doorway right of the fridge

when it tried to leave the kitchen he stood his groundwaving his hands like maladroit idiot

                                                                                                   the fly swervedcrossed the kitchen again a window there buzzed the range doubledback

                                                                                       shuffling past the fridge

he waved madly

                   the fly swerved rightbugged towards the window banged against the glass several times made him wonder if seeing the outdoors it was confused by the clear glass stepping towards the window waving only his lefthand the fly sprungoff the glass bolted left through the open window he immediatelyclosed it 

 

    normal  he thought so

                                     has evicted better than a dozen flies this summer had quit counting 

2052,  Tuesday,  25  8. 26

1128,  Wednesday,  26  8. 26

sitting across from each other slapdashed weathered onebysix boards on the remnants of a jerry-rigged fourlegged stand   where their beer bottles sat

                                                        Ohboys in a coozie    had said

No ya don

            Im not given you a passyoure full of shit

Where the hell did you study genetics

Genome

Variants

I’ve studied.

Genome An organisms complete set of DNA

Yes.

DNA strands are madeup of four nucleotide bases

Yes. A.  T.  G.  C.   A and T pair, C and G pair.

Adenine Thymine Guanine Cytosine

Yes.

Taxonomy

What of it?

Eight parcels

Are there eight?

One  domain two kingdom three phylum four class five order six family seven genus eight species

Okay.   Eight.

                What’s your point?

Im labouring it

You’re laboring me.

I am  Youve forced my hand

                                   Im incredulous     Youre unperturbed

Knew Id see you today

My daughter an I last night discussed the taxonomy of Immortal jellyfish

                                                                              I wrote it on my hand

Eukarya Animalia Cnidaria Hydrozoa Anthoathecata Oceaniidae Turritopsis Turritopsis dohrnii

                                                                                                   Drivinya nuts

You drive me nuts

Your point, what’s your point?

Your genes Their markers   I misunderstood  Makers

                                                              Your Czech genes Polish genes

No such thing

No God gene inasmuch as scientists want to beat their chest   no political party genes

Quit parceling  Ifya woudnt mind

                                          Lets park it with your I Q tha fucks with my Q I   Qi

1436,  Saturday,  22  8. 26

1300,  Tuesday,  25  8. 26

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/A-Brief-Guide-to-Genomics

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/educational-resources/fact-sheets/human-genomic-variation

https://news.galveston.tamu.edu/2026/02/12/immortal-jellyfish-the-science-of-falling-in-love-again/

https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/vmat2-gene-the-god-gene-and-neurotransmitters/ 

secrets safe

                  has an appeal

readilyd admit   to him

                             sweetlysonorous tha appeals to him

He at it again

His words   Jah

                   At it

Im sorry  Im playin off your expression

                                            I didnt hear

Two  Bang Bang

                    Secrets safe sweetlysonorous

Fantastic alliteration

Jah  As well

                  He might be on a roll

A phonaesthetic athlete

Arya tryin to compete

Hellno doesnt flow

                        Not sonorous

No

       The man certainly enjoys his simple pleasures

He doesdoesnt he

Id say  relish

As hed say

I only hear it out of his mouth  I believe it is infrequently used . .

. . Which is unfortunate

For others  not us

                           Im grateful

As am I

            We coud have chosen a lesser human

Lesser

          He aint all tha

Well  his lesser is exceptional

                                 In the best ways possible

I dig how he confounds people

People

         He confounds the hell out of me

All of us

          But we obviously as he   enjoy rollercoasters

Hes reckless

    Reckless

                 Methinks theres more to him than tha                  Like fear

He inspires

Yathink hes an inspiration

If not  He certainly slops grease on the rails

Truetha

            Trains  traces of thought

1038,  Tuesday,  25  8. 26

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/relish_v3

“The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we . . ."

               3 mistakes miasma-takes  “a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere” in that sentence

1  The United States . . .   no  only felon

2  we . . .  nope  felon

3  felon posted on X  something wrong with his Truth Social  Is it failing?  Is it?

                                                                                    course correction this Fall

                                                                                  offanrunning 3January 2027

0929,  Wednesday,  26  8. 26

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-2026

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/miasma

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/der-untergang

https://www.congresscountdown.com/info/new-congress-countdown

. . . we’d run the gym’s loop . .

. . Loop   Im unfamiliar     I don run unless Im chasin something

                                                                            An established path  demarcated

Drawn? Lines on the ground, on the sidewalks?

Jah

       Or is it otherwise  just known by those of you who runwha  four miles

Yes, correct.

Anya know  How     Were you told

    We were told.

Anhow did they know it was four mileswhos they

                                                      They use a Leica DISTO Laser Distance Meter

Distance meter.

                        You know that why?

A brotherinlaw is a surveyor I was attracted  Leica Disto

                                                            Awfully appealing

Appealing?

Awfully

               You didnt say they  you didnt say how  they did   an unimpeachable source

Why . . . why do you always have to get into the wee . .

. . Why do you always take people at their word

                                                       Verify   Receipts

It’s the gym, man.

                   They said the loop is four miles, laid it out for us, the boundaries, we were familiar.

So you were loopers

 

What the hell are you talking about?

You were loopers

We ran the four miles.

Runners  Loopers

                           Really

Runnin at a deficit

What deficit?

Lack of imagination  Loopers

                               I shoudnt have had to say

Man. You’re so full of shit.

    Better full than runnin on empty              

1436,  Saturday,  22  8. 26

0928,  Tuesday,  25  8. 26