---   Hopelessly endowed huh  Thats a mouthful

---   Stop 

---   Atll clear your throat

 

---   Stop  Could you please stop    Puhlease

---   Bring tears to your eyes

he glared at her

Whos the comedian now I think I like this funnyman stuff you always fallback behind

Making everything a joke

---   Because Id rather laugh than cry

---   I think Im finally catching a glimpse of your reckoning

But that aside

and back to our subject

You never did see who was talking

---   I didnt  I went quickly to my pocket my pen pulled paper I have folded in my book and scribbled it down not that I would forget who could forget scribbled down the time to preserve it for the Ages

---   The Ages  Because the Ages cant afford not to remember that pearl of a notion

---   Where you going with that

---   Going  What are you talking about

---   I thought you were going somewhere  The pearl bit

---   Pearl

---   My apologises Youre not a comedian

---   Youre coming out of left field

---   Ill cum out of any and in any field I feel like

Pearl necklace

You teed it up and wandered away

---   Oh my God

No  Im a comedian

Not a pervert

---   Not perverted

Quit attractive I think if you can manage it

I never could

Always freshwater pearls

Always a broach or a strand

The beginnings of a tiara

Heres mud in your eye

it was her turn to glare

Comon  Its funny yah

---   Yah

---   Youre mocking me

---   Yah

---   Awright Enough

Back to the subject at hand

---   Really

---   Really

he laughed

A little longer

Who pulled the bonerIs that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me

he smiled largely

---   Evidently youre proud of yourself

---   Cocks are funny ya gotta admit

---   If I admit it will you shaddup so we can have a legit conversation about what you overheard

---   Yah I just dont think legit conversation covers it

Nothing really legit Gossip

---   I dont think gossip is correct either

Its just between you and I

---   True

But you know me  First chance I get in conversation to whip it out its out on the table possibly hanging off its lip 

 

---

---   Awright  Ill stop

---   Thank you

---   Youre welcome

---   You really meander

---   Never go anywhere in a straight line

Youll get picked off

Never stop moving

Easy to hit a standing target

---   So you always say

---   I always do

---   But back to the subject at hand

he restrained himself

Looks like that hurts

---   A bit

But as you were saying

I think    I think I can talk now

Just so reminiscent of my first sex talk with my parents Their unyielding need for proper terminology as if it were etiquette

            

Penis

Vagina

Really very serious stuff

Me stuffin my laughter

And then the stuff they left out Lies by omission

Christ  It was the Sixties Everywhere touting it a raging Sexual Revolution 

 

Not that it was

Conveniently forgetting the Roaring Twenties  Or Europe Berlins Cabaret

Such children in America

---   It is a Christian Nation

---   Its religious to the hilt

And sooner or later I was going to come face-to-face with all sorts of sexuality  Youd think they would have better prepared me if they were going to go by the textbook Be frank

---   To be fair

You werent very old

---   I was old enough to have boners be aware of breasts Lookin at Playboy

And my father was a boy once upon a time

My mother a girl

Sorry  Sexuality eventually dawns and if I came to them to talk about it then the cock crowed if ya catch my drift

---   Caught  But back to our subject

---   Hopelessly endowed

Doesnt sound like a problem to me That said Id never utter the words

Im amicably endowed

No complaints thus far

---   What do you mean thus far

---   You forgot to glare

---   Okay funnyman

---   Our funnymen have parried  Where we going with this

---   I dont know

You

---   I wasnt going anywhere

Just something I overheard and had to share

Play our game

Crow about

---   You certainly are

---   Yup

 

It belongs to the Ages

After we give it a little traction outside our confines

Let it out of the box so to speak

he started humming riffs off Dick in a Box

she said

        I think youll need a bigger box

(Genesis  1553,  Saturday,  26  3. 16)  1524,  Twosday,  29  3. 16

0922,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  30  3. 16

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snl-digital-short-d-in-a-box/n12100

                                                there was a little game they played that he brought to her

that he learned from Burroughs

who learned from Brion Gysin

(while living either in Paris or Tangier(while getting stoned or fucking young men(is anything really immoral if the parties involved – partaking – are enjoying it)(NO  its their right(which kills the Right) to their privacy their mutual pleasures)))

who learned from Dadaist Tristan Tzara(he always wanted to say Tarzan)

that she then shared

but his primacy was that they shared it and thoroughly enjoyed it

  

they enjoyed it more than playing Scrabble reading poetry Nin or building jigsaws

its utter randomness enthralled them  then they tried to find skeins of Order in its tumbled Chaos

                                                                                                    cut-ups

it required a book or books

pen or pencil(she preferred)

and paper

you open a book

drop your eye on either page

and write what you see

terminating the sentence where you wish

close the book

open it again

write  terminate                           

              and on and on until you determine its finished

for example
 

“the inadequacies of reason and logic

they turned through streets they didn't know

examining the earth, his compass

the close-up swirl of water

(he) was screaming

his head was a head-sized fist

the sound was bizarrely and instantly recognisable

‘I don’t want to drown the world.’

the ghastly sunwheel he could no longer see

he pushed back more strongly than he appeared

‘I’m part of the conventional crime.’

a helpful wind moved the last clinging leaves

the Tattoo

in humour and consternation

the gist of it

they had paid attention to it like a disease

it clogged (her) windpipe as she crawled

wisps of coloured swirls, crossbred Celtic-knot fractal

below through noises another sound was audible

NO written across his consciousness

‘We’re dealing with fanatics, and all fanatics are experts.’

(thats how Miévilles Kraken worked out)”

THIS TIME

 

itd be different the next time  and the next and the next

(he preferred Miller Nin and Finnegans)

then she brought a game to him she made

audio cut-ups

snatching random bits of conversation  interloping  eavesdropping 

choosing to begin to listen transcribing then backing out

she practised it awhile before unveiling it

 

she read to him what she overheard
but when she finished as was their tout of authenticity rather than admitting who the author was and their text
she admitted they were conversations she overheard and hadnt a clue who spoke

laughingly she said Anonymous  Like graffiti scrawled on bathroom partitions

he loved the idea but said he couldnt play  not accurately  not as she

she studied shorthand and typed in excess of 120 words a minute
       

his ability paled in light of her stenographic skills

nevertheless  hed try

they went to bars

had a drink to fit in

laughing they referred to this posturing as cloaking(Romulan) 
and worked the room together

though often they didnt have to leave the small table where they sat for the voices balling above the collective din and the very common indiscretion inanity of someone talking on their cellfone and seemingly oblivious that everyone could hear them
       

they jotted swatches on notepads

and when they concluded they shared

getting really good cut-ups were far more difficult than out of books

she usually bettered him

then one evening he came home very proud of himself busting his buttons!
he told her that brevity seemed likely his best bet to be effective for their audio play

Fine she said Thrill me

Think haiku he said But shorter

Okay she said  then began to laugh

he waited for her laughter to subside

it was short

he said he heard a murmur between two guys a couple aisle over from where he stood in a liquor store
murmur  murmur  murmurmurmur      murmur 

then he tuned in and overheard 
                                  . . . "hopelessly endowed" . . .

Whaddaya make of that?

         

(Genesis  1553,  Saturday,  26  3. 16)  1524,  Twosday,  29  3. 16
2332,  Twosday,  29  3. 16