Thatll be sixtysix sixtysix

Ohno that wont do  I have to buy something else

she was blonde

her brow unlined

clothing upscale

by all appearances

she had the world by the balls

  

Maam she irritated himshe was younger than he Its sixtysix sixtysix not six six sixto be exact six  six  six  six

No matter I wont have it

You wont have it   Truly

she fixed him contemptuously as she reached into a glass bowl of foilwrapped Ghirardelli chocolate squares  Dont tell me what I know

he bit his tonguewhite uptight religious twat 

finding the chocolate she wanted she spun it onto the countertop

Round and round it goes where it stops nobody knows 

it came to rest

Ohno Look! Its pointing your way to Hell  he said With the Ghirardelli chocolateseventynine cents you owe sixtyseven fortyfive

Ah now  thats better

I assume soDont let the door crack you on the ass on your way outChrist

not a halfhour later  Thatll be sixtysix sixtyseven

No  Mygoodness I have to buy something else

Yagotta be kiddin me Are youre kidding me  Did somebody send you in

Excuse me

This thing about six six six You  Again  The second time inside an hour  Is it some kind of phobia

Phobia  I think you know what six six six refers to

I know its a numberI know the hangup religious people havenumber of the beast Revelations New Testament
I believe its a number

May God bless you

Thank you but hold your blessings

she rolled her eyes

she seemed to pity him  I never  then she walked away from the counter to the dry good shelves sundry items she returned with water crackers and cheese  cheese which frankly paired very well with the wine she was buying 

she was older than he

older

a dyed blonde

likely only to arrest the grey

upscale clothing

entitled

there were lots and lots of entitled white people in these partsdidnt seem to spend considerable time in urban or cosmopolitan cities

Thats eighty sixtyfive 

Eighty sixtyfive she mimed  relief in her voice 

Im curious if you dont mind  Had your purchase hit sixtysix would you have bought something else

she rolled her eyes againran her tongue like a cow at a cuddletop lip down   No  Sixtysix is sixtysixits only sixtysix
Are you always this rude to your customers

Rude Rude  Is she kiddin me  You must have it pretty goodnot get out much if you think Im rude or Im being rude to you

Someone should talk to your manager

You can  My names Joe  I can have him come up if you have a moment

icy look  Unfortunately I havent time today Now

Well when you do  Again my names Joe  Dont forget its common  Im the only Joe here

I never she said under her breath as he placed her bagged purchase in her cart

Thank you for shopping with us today

her mouth formed into a creased beakit wasnt appealing  it exemplified an old hen

she didnt say a word

late that evening a guy set his purchase a cold can of beer down on the counter

he rang him upshook his head side to side scarcely distinguishable  Thats six sixtysix

Yikes! 
Are you kidding me

Im kidding you    Seem a bit touchy man

sighEnd of a long day

Got it  Drives me nuts when people get twisted on six six six  but theyre out there mantheyre out there theyre way the fuck out there if you catch my drift

In spades brother  In spades

YIKES!  Dig its cartoonish epithet

Mind if I bum it off you

Bum away  I took it off my uncle He was a clowna good soul

Thank you

Youre welcome

1847,  Sunday,  15  10. 17
1452,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  18  10. 17

Bruce Springsteen  My Best Was Never Good Enough  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBSvAPlnDOU

 Executive Mansion
Washington, December 23, 1862

Dear Fanny

It is with deep grief that I learn of the death of your kind and brave Father(his long-time friend William McCullough); and, especially, that it is affecting your young heart beyond what is common in such cases. In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once. The memory of your dear Father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before.

Please present my kind regards to your afflicted mother.

Your sincere friend
A. Lincoln




he couldnt help as he listened to the reportinghe stopped the showhe went online to find the Presidents text and read it for himself  he did this incessantly nowincessantly because he had to read the words for himself without an intermediary telling him  but primarily because he had become misphonichad developed a revulsion which nearly made him physically ill hearing the cunt speak
hearing his voice


he couldnt help but think that America since had produced lesser men 

ethics displaced 

cheap


hed written lately of collusion irredeemableness existential threats natural and manmade maninduced crises  however this newshed found other news depressing but this news profoundly affected him it pushed him down deeper than he had been in a long time 

it seemed the cunt was depraved to a depth that exceeded even his wildest imagination

he understood the process the Mueller investigation was continuing 

however he wondered why there continued to be overt Republican efforts(they might have thought they were being covert to the general population) to waylay the investigation and support either a sociopathic or psychopathic cunt  he remained unsure which the man was



ahh   he turned off the words
                       then he turned up the volume on his computer speakers sat back and listened to Mal Waldron play the pianolistened to Coltrane play the saxophone Clifford Brown play the trumpet McCoy Tyner Gene Ammons Sonny Rollins Lee Morgan Jackie McLean Sun Ra Miles Davis(he could write etcetera etceteraetcetera but it reminded him of ordering Chinese food and he hadnt been to a good Chinese restaurantto his chagrin in a very long time)
  

0859,  Thursday,  19  10. 17

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/mccull.htm
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-disgrace-laid-bare-in-interactions-with-gold-star-families-1076551747620

he took his beer and books(wanderlust the buried giant mythago wood anti-intellectualism in american life) outside into a pleasant wind

looking north and east he saw the dull grainygray gauze of ash and smoke of forest fires still untamed 

               untamed

just like us to think we can tame anything                            

we can certainly put our fingers in a pie

start a fire

cause exquisite mayhem

remain unrepentant

eventually we can clearcut bombard it with water and chemicals  eventually assisting the beast to extinguish itself

provide hospice

yeah   Tame

he took his beer and books outside to escape the telephone  to put a brief hold on their off-and-on conversations that beaded a slender chain of the better part of two hours  

he rationalised(really  really  she was doing fine on her own) helped her confirm her suspicions that the nonprofit she worked for was profiting handsomely possibly profiting its Board(cream rises) but definitely the executive and a select minion  they were systematically bilking(she preferred defrauding) state agencies who were too ponderous too understaffed too underfunded to afford regulators to sift through the mire and minutia determine who the bad actors are and run forensic accounting on their books         

the crux of their conversationhis alarm was her stress  not only that she was enduring this now-unfolding uncertain certainty but also her misfortune of contendingconstantly and consistently with her overseers rebuffing their courses which had over the past year borne her out readily confirming her grit and acumen  unfortunately though to her disadvantage affecting her physically  she was struggling with a yet-identified if-ever-to-be-identified immune disorder
he guarded her jealously sternly warned her(not that she didnt know or didnt grasp its reality) that the last thing she needed in her life was more stress

I understand your passion your hatred – not typically your forte -- of those who try to play you a fool

she received a text forwarded by a coworker from the executive officer just after she had confronted him about their recently deployed and terribly improbable scheduling  she told him that it ran afoul of labor lawslaws she had cursory knowledge of but possiblyquite frankly other laws too

she asked if she could forward the text to him so he could read it and give her his thoughts 

:  Ah yes – an undoing when when a Trust is broken - a resource when it provides:bestows gifts and opportunities . Onto another learning and maturation curve.

he texted her that it lacked context(was poorly written) that she couldnt assume it was in regards to her  its context could only be grasped if she read the text her coworker sent  then the executive replied

he texted a second time:  It is ambiguous. HA! Interesting.(inside joke)

she texted:  my chest tho holy shit.

:  Thinking Swedish(hospital) before it gets worse?

:  i can’t yet.

:  Can’t ?

   Can’t breathe . . . really tough to finish out a day.

then :  Heart?

       Heart don’t beat ..  . really tough to finish out a day

:  ha.

:  I didn’t mean either as a joke, as I know you know . . .I understand the job, you spent the morning adamant about how you were being treated.

How are you treating yourself any different?

he didnt expect hed hear from her for a while

he took his beer and books outside

he didnt hear from her until later that evening

she called

she wasnt well

1816,  Friday,  13  10. 17

1132,  Saturday,  14  10. 17