--   Mygawd

what little he knew of her

was already more than he cared or wanted to know

he already knew hed have to take a pinch or grain of salt with whatever she had to say

and  truth be known  he was readily available to drop a ton of it on her head

to shut her mouth

she didnt just open her bleachedblonde mouth

she brayed

brayed incoherently upon all sorts of matters without possessing the facts to either

support or furthur her arguments

she regurgitated wholesale right wing talking points and had she stepped back  really

to examine what she was saying she might also recognize her wholesale racist talking

points

if someone got a word in edgewise refuting her earnest glimmered perceptions she 

retorted

--   You dont know what youre talking about

--   Fine

I am anxious for you to prove me wrong

Dont tell me I dont know what Im talking about 

Talk to me how I am errant  Persuade me  Turn me around

--   Persuade you  You havent any faith  I have faith in what I say

there was no refuting faith

the power of pristine faith is that it can be believed without reason or facts

it cant be reduced

its tidy

a neat little bundle

a hardened resilient bright diamond

like the one she wore on her finger

she was married at eighteen to the only boy she had ever been involved with

he was seventeen and had to have his parents permission to wed

four years later

she wasnt so keen on him

shortly after they married he fell sick

something in his genes

something his family had no idea of because they didnt believe in the prowess of science

and medicine

                        it was in Gods hands

everything was in Gods hands

and because he was ill

he couldnt work

he couldnt father children

she resented his illness

she resented that she had to become their provider

resented he couldnt impregnate her

she was supposed to multiple

how was she to fulfill her obligation to God

she stuck in her thumb and pulled out a bad plum

and it disgusted her

all her girlfriends had babies

had virile working husbands

  

she was cheated

 

there was adoption

there was her vows

--   I didnt vow to this

“in sickness and in health”

--   Thats beside the point

if it was thrown around if she were the one who was incapacitated  suffering

--   Im not am I  Thats not the case  Thats utter supposition 

                                                            

Im not unhealthy
 

her girlfriends counseled her to leave him

--   Hell get half my house (her grandparents put up the money that paid for their house)

Why should he get half  He failed me

that ton of salt

 

it would put her out of her misery

maybe it was just the trick she was looking for

Nah  he thought  Ill take her with a grain of salt  One pure white grain at a time

2055,  Friday,  26  9. 14

--   the current AUTHORITY

                                                                     he was confident authority wasnt capitalized

though very likely the authority might prefer it were

and that the people who read  current authority

heard it reported or saw it on their computer television or cellphone screens would 

submit

perhaps bow deeply touching their foreheads to the ground as some religious devotees 

do

or prostrate themselves collectively

frankly

those were the kind of thoughts that traipsed around in his head whenever authority 

was pronounced

decided

                       this reigning new authority  unconfirmed by free independent forces

lacked rigid verification  and exhibited no proof beyond what it showed or said

the authority should be advised to remember that the evocation of it as “the current 

authority” infers  in time  there will be different authorities

and how they are fashioned is anyones guess

 

as easily as one can count “one, two, three . . .” there follows “four, five, six . . .” and on 

and on

the current authority is military (he could think of few authorities more rigid)

it is biased  employs extreme prejudice

it tells us only what it wants

it is not compelled

it advises that it cannot reveal specific elements or actions because we are safer 

not knowing what threats are imminent

Fearmongering

the current authority

according to officials

in theatre CENTCOM

the Pentagon

                       

all talking heads

enabled because they can imprison its contract players  those actors at its game of chess

if they betrayed either the theses or strategies put in place  contended  by their 

superiors

it is not called the CHAIN of Command for nothing

Think dog

Think kennels

Think fetch

     

                                                         he wondered how the National Amnesia worked if 

he distinctly remembered

the self-assured Hubris of the last Republican Administration

thirteen years of languishing American warfare

Treasure consumed

uncounted Lives lost

Families destroyed

the new Bogeyman

ISIS

ISIL                                                                                                                                             DAESH

Al-Nusra Front

Khorasan Group

etcetera etcetera etcetera

was it him or didnt they sound  --  each and every one  --  like Wall Street conglomerates

he scratched his head

no public conversation

plenty of prattling neutering degrading

pontification

religious intonation 

assuming the High Road

a Yellow-Coward Congress not meeting its Constitutional obligations

a new Years - long conflict entered into without any determinate cost analysis

               

How about  he thought  we talk about New Taxes Assessed to afford this Conflict since

the last  --  no  that was incorrect  --  the last wasnt over yet  --  was run so dismally

frankly

he could bet his left testicle “the current authority” wasnt quibbling over these concerns

0008,  Friday,  26  9. 14