four hundred parts per million

four hundred parts per million 

                        0.0004

doesnt look significant

despite its pronouncement by global warming scientists as Mankindes threshold to annihilation  

                                                                            its Lingchi

death by a thousand cuts  

if one is lucky enough(dies before the onslaught) and chooses a headstone for their grave I might not be able to resist

the temptation to come around and deface their stone scratch 0.0004 into it  as an exponential number over the day

of their death

            say 30 September 2016^0.0004

I cant argue that 0.0004 doesnt look insignificant

but as dumb luck would have it(which I value significantly) I discovered if a 165 pound person were to ingested 112.2 milligrams(mg) of cyanide*  0.00039577385 ounces  rounding up  0.0004 ounces

its plenty to kill em

that said(which I now reluctantly share because the numbers dont work as curiously or as favorably into the four hundred parts per million scheme)  cyanide inhaled takes only two hundred seventy parts per million to snuff a person

  OH

       I shouldnt forget to say that cyanide is fatal within minutes

I bring this up to only to suggest that rather than endure Lingchi cyanide could be preferable

either way

            the Inevitable comes

as inevitable as I knew Zager and Evans had overplayed Mans 10,000 year reign in their '69 song In the Year 2525

2222,  Sunday,  2  10. 16

co2 milestone  http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/30/as_earth_reaches_frightening_co2_milestone

NOAA  http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html

* http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/03/apple-seeds-contain-cyanide/

Zager and Evans  In the Year 2525  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

Cook

that was her name

why would he call her that

too straight laced

he wouldnt call her by her first name

he didnt like it

Cook

Cook is what naturally came out of his mouth when he opened it when they first met

in the next heartbeat(his heart pounded) he called her Kook

a heartbeat later Kookie 

like the cat the car jerk from 77 Sunset Strip

just the namesake

no resemblance

a mien she acquired the more they hung out

away from him she might have been who she was christened

but with him she let her freak flag fly

he did something to her at a primal level

her parents and teachers didnt approve

funny how parents and teachers thought what they did or didnt approve was Word

Kookie wanted their relationship to remain platonic(she couldnt hear his pounding heart)

Wed look like circus freaks she said

she was referring to her sensational height she was a head and shoulders taller than him

he climbed trees like a monkey

why couldnt he climb her

NO

she thought she was a beanpole

Baby youre slender Ill give you that but beanpoles aint got the rack youre sporting

Your mamma hang those breasts on you

NO

I wouldnt worry about your disproportion that seems for whatever reason to egg you on

Youre body will probably grow into them as you mature

NO

she was probably right

her crisp incited NOs probably suggested that even her DNA might dare not challenge her

she was headstrong

she was intelligent

she was lovely

(his heart pounded)

what was there not to like

she remained the only platonic relationship he ever had with a girl or woman

he didnt catch up to her height when he matured

and that was alright

because nothing could ever take away their slow dances as kids

before 1640 after 1545,  Sunday,  1  10. 16

Kookie Kookie  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gDT2Xk5-Oo

at what age does one learn contrition

contrition  [kuh n-trish-uh n]

                        noun  1. sincere penitence or remorse.

if not the word attached to its compliance

then what an act of contrition is

at what age does one learn an apology is more than the three little words nobody wants to hear uttered

 

                                                                                   I am sorry

as thoughtless and as hurriedly as one spits out a flying bug that found its way into their wideopen mouth

Contrition

not that it was understood or could be conceived of by force  by spanking

This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you

which he really didnt understand until he punished his own children  –  one crack on the ass  no more  --  then sat them on the edge of their bed and told them to really think about why he struck them  firmly bringing them into the moment  and the fierce light of their transgression

fifteen twenty minutes later he attended to the finale of their punishment

his kids knew exactly what they did wrong and why they were punished

his girls(theres that) understood what he expected of them and thinking back over those punishments he recognised he didnt have to spank them but a handful of times

his children werent exceptional

they were accountable

they learned the line and shape of civility

as it was his responsibility to teach them

1454,  Twosday,  4  10. 16