the fence between himself and his neighbour his neighbours fence had two breaches in it from the high winds that the rain rode more than three weeks past

the lengths twelve metres between posts were three lengths apart 

the missing northernmost length was inconsequential

it showed their mortared barbecue pit fireplace and chimney

the southern one however exposed their great room their livingdiningkitchen areas to him should he chose to sit on his back porch

which he did

which he took his morning coffee on

which he took his afternoon reading writing letters fruit and tea on

he wasnt going to be shy or change up anything he had been accustom to doing for the six years he lived there

it was their fence

it was their obligation to replace

yet they were casual about it  they were late to removing the collapsed sections and as yet apparently lacked concern for their privacy

if he wished he could stroll bold as day to the property line and stand there watching the goingson inside their home  he could cross the mere twenty metres to their sliding glass door and rap on it to borrow a cup of sugar a cup of flour  not that he would need either

his privacy was inviolate

he considered they might have been more concerned for their daughter

over the years he thought their children were boys

apparently she was the bigger onethe eldest

she was very physical  apparently very tomboyish though not that he knew then 

he knew now

her dance with puberty had inordinately reconfigured her  it seemingly had outrun her mental acuity or conscious reckoning  the sudden loss of her younger girlishness

her tshirts didnt hang straight down

her hips and thighs violated her shorts

when she bounded athletically across the lawn her agents went where they wantedthrowing her offstep

she was not shy or selfconscious

the fence once upon a time helped enforce her modesty

with it downmissing so it seemed also was her modesty

he thought he could use it to incentivise her parents

                                                          they seemed oblivious  

or were oblivious until she began missing the softballs her brother threw to her as they played catch and she ran into his yard casually preening exercising her rising self and sensuality  

                                                                    her girlishness moulting her sexuality burgeoning

he chose not to look away

maybe now theyd repair the fence

more than a wooden fence had been breached

1558,  Sunday,  17  3. 19

1115,  Monday,  18  3. 19

Ben Harper  Please me like you want to  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSamruywO1o

the burger jointwhy he went offered a side of Cascabellas small yellow hot peppers if you wished to have with your hamburger

he wished

although he always felt he was getting away with something when a stranger offered him a kindness suspicious he assumed while always forgetting he was kind and didnt expect anything in return his daughters and girlfriend reminded him

the Cascabella offered notoriety to the hamburgers he failed to see that the additional slices of onion and tomato probably helped too almost a kind of reserved salsa

the peppers were definitely a pick-me-up

it was nice to enhance regular fare making it something more

the cold beers with them didnt hurt matters  they helped make the heat smile

frankly the Cascabella reminded him of the Latina who caught his eye earlier her eyebrows fashioned with dark makeup exquisitelyrather than existentially he kept trying to imagine what she might look like without them although on closer inspectnot that he was inspecting he sawrecognised she had them tattooed she said hybrid feathertouched tattoo of which he hadnt a fuckin clue he didnt even know that was a thing out of the mouths of babes eh

she was definitely a babefit as a fiddlebodyformed to his fondest imagination

she was striking at a distance an downright uncomfortable in the nicest way upclose

it was difficult not to stare

You seem very intrigued with my eyebrows.

I am Although thats not to sayoverall youre very intriguinginticing Id assume youd rather have me eyeball your eyebrows as to your other assets  as wonderful as they are

That’s quite the compliment.

Yes I didnt have to make it up either I just cant help myself Im tryin but I really cant help myself I cant stop looking Im between fascination and mystification 

Youre very Egyptian looking

Im thinking Cleopatra

Im thinking Elizabeth Taylor

Excuse me?

Ohno Nah nahnah You dont know who or what Im referring

No.

Youre killin my buzz youdexcuse me  shit  if you sawif you knew 

Trust meplease  thats an enviable compliment

he liked that she didnt trust him she was immediately at her smartphone  Ohmygoodness, she’s beautiful. Who’s Elizabeth Taylor? Who’s Cleopatra?

Guess Im edumacatin you

Edu ma cating  me?

Educatin though being more playful You seem to me to be someone who enjoys playfulnessbeing playful

You’re spooky.

Not as spooky as you

 

2225,  Friday,  15  3. 19

1326, Saint Dionysus Day – rather than St. Paddy’s Day,  17  3. 19

Jimi Hendrix  Little Miss Strange  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwbdN8v91Y0

I know what he saw by what he painted 

he wasnt unlike him

                      I know what I see what I feel an try to communicatethough imperfectly by words  by what I wriote what I determinefashion with twentysix characters  like musical notes arrested by a score  artistic brushstrokes fingersmudges quillrendered paper  fixed by lines brashcolours or subtly  harrowed expressed incited excited by claylike thickness or vibrancy or dreamy opacity  happy or dismal  our lives mixgenerously anointed trembling throes of black an white 

“When painting a flat landscape,” VanGogh said, “I see eternity. Am I the only one to see it? Existence can’t be without reason.”

“Maybe God made me a painter for people not born yet.”

he drew with words  threw white luminous clouds uprisen like meringue saw yellow dirt unhappyuninhabited shale made drunken vultures  laughed with wrens chirpingdancing with exquisite finches 

                                                                                               he wriote of ruins to happen children that will disappoint odds defied happy fools who mull an those who dumbly electrify 

                                                                                                    because he agreed  Existence cannot be without reason 

maybe his job was to assess assign  reason

                                                   whatever reason meant

he was an unsatisfied nomad a waonderer   an inquisitor 

he looked for truth mucked lieshoping for illuminating kernals  once they were cleansed

   

2314 & 2323 & 2326 & 2328,  Friday,  15  3. 19

1312,  Saturday,  16  3. 19

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6938828/videoplayer/vi478001945?ref_=tt_ov_vi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYmK3PYQnGg

he knew things were more lax in California at least the things that laxness should be applied say less conservative more creative not walking in Nazi lockstepmilitary doing exactly as your toldunquestioningly  Who the fuck are you

as a baby he lived in Chicago down from Riverview Amusement Park then as a toddler moved to Norwood Park  and then as a boy moved to the suburbs Des Plaines 

there his house number was 1018  the house east of his was 1014  west was 1022 Riverview addresses were similar as was Norwood

a new structure had been erected next door to a classic 40s building that housed an optometrists office 

that structures address is 5920 the optometrists is 6480 there wasnt three feet between the buildings 

he couldnt begin to elaborate on the businesses located in those three darkened feet

when he pointed it out to his brotherinlaw he said he was mistaken

Excuse me

The 5920 structure is on West Mall. The optometry office is on Palma.

The entry to each is off West Mall

They are.

If the entries ingress their exits egress is off West Mall  why is the optometry office a Palma address

Probably zoned, located that way, a long time ago.

Palma isnt a long street  Runs north and south between Traffic Way and San Jacinto  Theres a schism at Traffic Way Palma jumps eastwha a hundred metres then runs three short blocks south again before deadending on East Mall There is no Palma south beyond East Mall or north beyond San Jacinto

Yes. Correct.

Not odd

No.

I thinks its odd

You think its odd, but you aint from here. his brotherinlaw virtually spent his whole life there

the Midwest was flat for as far as the eye could see prairieland  the West Coast was jammed up by plate tectonics shale was turned on edge in some places nearly ninety degrees 

it was a good place to live to get stoned

                                            an he got fuckedup in more places than he could count unlike his brotherinlaw 

1457,  Thursday,  28  2. 19

1147,  Reggae Friday,  15  3. 19

her text woke him at 0659 Up up and at it as she did approximately every morning Monday through Friday he was her backup 

if she didnt text by 0710 the time he set an alarm for he called hershe never answered  if he was calling her she was already late to the game he followed the telephone call gone to voicemailhe didnt leave one with a text  Move it, sweetcheeks

often he was tempted to reset the alarm for another ten minutes but didnt he figured he wouldnt fall back to sleep in that time anif she hadnt texted him to say she was up hed pop her one more time then her circumstances were beyond what he could dohe did what he could

this morning he was no help

she didnt text

he called at 0710 then promptly fell back to sleep hard

he slept through her 0734 text shit im late 

when he woke it was 0823he could have sworn he just turned onto his hip arranged the pillow under his head and closed his eyes

0710 to 0823 the time gone in a flash

the sunlight in the bedroom changed

it was the only thing that made him look at his cellfonerecognise a text was waiting on him shit im late

Awbrutha shed be up to her eyeballs at work and wouldnt have time to respondnot that he would write her at work she was working it was a boundary he didnt cross people didnt pay other people for them to conduct personal communications on their time

besides

         he had to pick up a rental car at 0900 and it took him a halfhour to walk the distance there

he came off Traffic Way into the alley behind the old renovated hotel three contractors lost their shirts to the project one was still being sought on criminal charges the only reason he got the bid was because he was a local boy done good at least thats how he was portrayedhow he liked to see himself painted his familyan old family in town was politically connected he knew him personally he knew the monkey bit off more than he could chew when he disappeared with threequarters of a million city dollars he wasnt surprised he washowever surprised how much of the community was surprised 

just inside the alley he found a bright shiny silver dollar laying on the mustardcoloured concrete 

he couldnt imagine how anyone walking either last evening or this morning could have possibly missed it  as huge and as bright as day

fifty feet later he found a bright shiny quarter

he was up a buck twentyfive on the day

ten feet more a dime

up a buck thirtyfive

things come in threes

although he was more accustom to deaths coming in threes

still he kept his eyes to the ground

down from the shiny coinsstill behind the hotel he found a wet turd DairyQueen-tipped dark like chocolate pudding

the contrast couldnt have been more stark

definitely an end to a beginning

hed quit looking

he didnt wanna find two more shitshealthy or not

he disturbed himself to wonder if the shit was a dogs the hotel was dogfriendly  funny that it didnt maintain a small grassy park in the immediate vicinity where dogs could shit or it could have been because halfblock away was a sprawling city park or if the shit was human these days people were hardpressed to be responsible dog owners or not be miscreants

to this sense of outrage he was up four – zero 

                                                four for four three times successfully hurling dogshit at dog owners and once hurling shit at the offending miscreant  none of the four wanted to up the ante

Pick up after your dog

Pick up after yourself

they obviously spoke English

he was interviewed by a cop

one of the clutch took exception to his action and called the police with their cellfone

they gave the police a wonderful description of himhis clothing the direction he was walking the rucksack he carried

he gave the cop short shrift

it seemed to him he explained there was a city ordinance against dogs defecating in public and the excrement not retrieved by the dog owner

I think if youll follow up the complaint youll find that their jackets a mess

Just keeping people honest officer

No You cant have my name 

You have theirs

If you need a name for your paperwork A Good Samaritan ought to suffice  now if youll excuse me I have an appointment                   

0847 & 0852 & 0905,  Friday,  1  3. 19

1548,  Thursday,  14  3. 19

Snow White and the Six Dwarves

first and foremost is Flipper  Thom Tillis of North Carolina

Flipper was joined by Colorados Cory Gardner Joni Ernst Iowa John Cornyn Texas Georgias David Perdue  and last and very least Arizonas Martha McSally who was tabbed to finish out Senator John McCains term

1601,  Reggae Friday,  15  3. 19

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/03/15/vulnerable-republicans-voted-to-support-trumps-national-emergency/

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/senate-republicans-trump-national-emergency-vote-1222367

Ya heard the bray an horseshit out of the FAKE PRESIDENT  his Breitbart offering

I did

Anyer take

Nothing to take

“I can tell you I have support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people . . ”

You memorised it

I did if he didnt have the support of the policethe military  the support of the Bikers for Trump wouldnt have been half as funny To be fairaccording to poll numbers he ought to be saying I have mebbe thirty-eight percent support of the policethirtyeight percent . . Bikers for Trump say theyre onehundredthousand members strong  article I read said in their last quarter they had eighteenthousand sixhundred an nineteen dollars in donations eighteennineteen cents a member  Ferocious

1042,  Reggae Friday,  15  3. 19

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/15/trump-deletes-breitbart-post-how-tough-his-supporters-can-get/3172413002/

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/bikers-for-trump/

Wall

“Mexico will pay for . . . Wall” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEAH5RRNBoA

Senate Slaps Down Trump’s Border Emergency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEAH5RRNBoA

VETO! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diu3XeqvrMk

Soah Mexicos not paying for Wall Seems like thats another campaign promise thats been broken Whapromise has he kept aside from him making money being president

2221,  Thursday,  14  3. 19

its trash they want him to say 

                              it dont matter it dont matter what he puts down on a page itsshit

shit because some believed it hadnt hang time

it wasnt any no more relevance than a fart

but a fart is relevant

did he worry themNah 

                         an he didnt worry because he wouldnt have written what he did if it didnt have relevance to him if he didnt see it being worthwhile

he wasnt impressed by people who didnt throw brickswho didnt think their wordstheir opinions matteredwere some kind of be all end all

cuntesses didnt impress him

he impressed him  

                    otherwise he wouldnt dare put words on a page and wriote his name beneath them

what occurred to him didnt occur to others

as his wife used to say to him Stay off the wall Please  Please stand on the ground with everyone else

when she would say so he could see her plead with himuse her expressive huge brown eyes Please he couldnt promise her hed be lying an he told her hed never never lie to her so he took her handall the time looking her in the eyes and held it up against his heart and smiled hed smile and say Thank you so very much for loving me

he met so many clueless people

happily devotedly  clueless

bliss had a face 

                  it wasnt however the face that looked back at him in a mirror he only looked in one to shave so he didnt cut his throat with the ivoryhandled straightedge his father left him

he was never tempted       

2304,  Twosday,  12  3. 19

1203,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  13  3. 19

Ezri  be right back  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWr4wNVrlTk

AwChrist you kiddin me Com outcom out  I can see you plain as day 

                                                                          looking down the face of the heavy security screen door he could see the quiet tarantula obscured under it  three of its hairy legs were apparent on this side of the door four others on the opposite side through the hard black metal sieve

it wasnt budging

he wouldntve

he remembered the neighbourhood kids crying much the same Come out come out  You win  We give up we cant find you  Come out come out

if they couldnt find him why would he out the best hiding place in the neighbourhoodhe wouldnt

they called and called and called and wandered around beneath him YOU WIN! COME OUT COME OUT!

he didnt budge

night fell

he heard his old man whistleheard him call Time to come in, Joe! they were usually the first kids in the neighbourhood to retire he was going to cross his old man the kids were still hanging around watching for him

then one by one their parents called them in and he watched them reluctantly go inside

he saw them linger on their front porchesharassed by the parents then finally concede

his old man wasnt going to call for him again

he crossed him

he was going to be punished

and he had no trouble with that

he wouldnt defend himself I didnt hear you call me

Was that lying Sure

Would his old man question him if he did No

his old mans punishment didnt tarry or seek explanations

it worked for them

secure that all the kids were inside he climbed down out of tree on the Chesneys front lawn

I can see you tarantula  Hello

it remained crouched under the heavy screen door

he was going to have to call his bluff

slowly he opened the door outward Hello friend This aint a good place for you to hide You werent hidden  Not from me Im a waryobservant motherfucker

it crouched deeper And that aint helping your cause Comhere he said as he squatted he laid his hand flat to the entry tile palm up and with his other hand he cajoled it to come forwardnot retreat out of doors

slowly laboriously it slugged it way onto his open hand

he was allergic to tarantula venom

if the arachnid chose it could put him into a world of hurt

                                                            but he was kind to them he considered the time he spent gathering tarantulas off the road in the hills taking them out of harms hopeful those would play to his advantage tarantulas and black widows scorpions they were earthlings and worth saving from the inane violence of people speeding along their way disregarding other living things Stupid. Thats how they defended themselves Theyre the ones who ought to be crawling across road to get to the other sidethe higher ground as the rains were coming  Dumb beasts

they were the dumb beasts they had laws to protect them  if it were up to him theyd be cascading tumbling caterwauling in the Fantastic and VOID looking for the next gig to drop into their senselessness their due

he stood up holding the tarantula working his other hand into mix to keep the tarantula circulating hand to hand gently as he went outdoors  he took it into the yard into the grass away from the house his humanity loved it he couldnt speak for other humanities or if those humanities might extend a helping hand to a formidable hairy earthling

he liked to think they would

ultimately only he was responsible for his actions    

1436,  Twosday,  12  3. 19

1036,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  13  3. 19

Isley Brothers  Fight the Power  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBwqj8ADw34

Gottabefuckinkiddinme the words slurredheaved out of his mouth breathlessly as he gaspedtried to recover from his big tom jumping off the bureau above him onto his gut as he slept Wha da fucks da matter wid chu  

indie didnt pausedhe sauntered off the foot of the bed landing heavily on the carpeted floor anywhere he went he went heavily

Auw fuck he groanedeyes closedrunning an internal diagnosticsrunning his hand across his belly  he was alright  he was silently gratefulhe didnt dare let that into atmosphere indie hadnt jumped on his nuts no sense given him ideas Fuckin cat he groaned  hes gotta eat when he wants to eat

to be fair  he knew he was pushing it 

                                         the sun splashed the bedroom through the uncurtained windows even sleeping he was aware his dreams were highlightedwhitewashed subtly brightened daubed with an soft amber patina but he tried hard not to waketried hard because the governess or whoever she waswhatever she was seemed pregnantseemed to promise him wisdom wished to impart something he assumed was vital  he purposefullyskillfully pushed out his dreaming to accept this sense that she had something for him a clutch of wisdom and hed be utterly stupid not to stick around to receive it so he lingeredhe lingered in the clutches of sleep an sleeplessness to have it

then indie stomped him while he bided his time                    

                                                  and at once his usual chorus chimed in he couldnt muster the Sirens over them had he tried despite their reinsthe ropes he held in either hand to yank and cinch to make his escape an ugly affair a chaffed and ropeburned thing  him leaning and pushing against them yearning for their unrelenting serpentine coils  

      no his usual chorus unfortunately besting him a comedicnot that they meant to be no since he was a boy they had been inculcated in black an white a prepubescent Dorothy awash in her wisdom There’s no place like home There’s no place like home and over her imagemerged with it an overlay of the blubbering Cowardly Lion I do believe in spooks I do I do I do believe in spooks and overlayed and merged by the Scarecrows If I only had a brain and overlayed and merged by the Tin Mans If I only had a heart  the four softly folded in a mixing bowl by the artful hand of a master baker folding  folding   folded  

                                   and now that they were in his way and he was lost to the kernel of wisdom he felthe was assured was meant to be his

0950,  Twosday,  12  3. 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cWKkjTzukM ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8lXfAPf4Vc ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nauLgZISozs ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aE-nMS9Mnk