. . . Was was is before was was was.

he saw that he was very pleased with himself 

                                                  Been hidin tha one away he replied Although I think its Before was was was, was was is. but why split hairs

Was was is until it isnt 

In Latin its great fun too Ante erat, erat, erat, erat. When writing it out I cant help but think Anteater anteater anteater anteater

          Then I cant help but imagine Anteater an teater a teater ate er teat

 

hed dropped eyes into his beer  looking up he saw his expression  priceless

                                                                                  Hey man  got a little gobsmacked on your face

You just can’t help yourself, can you?

Canned nah  Im better enjoyed raw

Why do you have to be sexual?

We are arent we his eyes roved   I am 

                                          Coarse is the A B Cs easily understood anbesides  I was born in the gutter   You cant imagine the graffiti scribbled on my tabula rasa Wasnt Lockes racial white blank slate waitin for the senses and experiences to write on to their hearts contentcan you imagine if someones senses werent sharphoned being dull  blunted  a dullard a dolt

Dagnabit

I said nothing to take offense

Yet you do

For tha the next beers on you

he sighed deflatedlooked back down into his beer did his hapless shrug  maybe its carbonation would scribble a retort

330preferred,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

1022,  Thursday,  4  8. 22

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/rethinkeducation/?p=1609 

https://philosophybreak.com/articles/john-lockes-empiricism-why-we-are-all-tabula-rasas-blank-slates/

she liked the sculpture on the cupboard in the kitchen she always remarked on itstroked it whenever they entered but she couldnt remember what kind of wood it was

he gave her hintscouldnt help but think she was playing with him

shed catch the expression on his face 

                                        Im sorry you look bemused For whatever reason I can’t seem to remember.

A hard wood

I know it’s a hard wood. she stroked its neck wingsran her finger under its hooked beak You got it in Alaska.

Id think if you can remember tha youd remember

Alaska’s big.

he laughed  Thahas nothing to do with anything babe

I’m just saying. she smiled slayed him with her dimples  disarmed him

Is it walnut

No.

Teak

she was tempted   No.

Mahogany

 

  No.   Closer.

Closer

Syllables.

Yare killin me dimples deepened more disarming

he stepped forwardkissed her rocked back on his feet

What was that for?

For your incredible dimples your syllables   Yes  Three

Threes not a hint. I can count.

Hickory

Now you’re trying to trick me. Not hic-kor-y, smart ass.

Black wal nut

No.

    Ya lookin’ for a bust in the mouth?

he dropped his eyes to her breasts wolfishly Yes please

she put her hands up over her chest Let’s stay on point.

Im beginning to point . .

. . Would you stop?!

You started

Wood.

Keep teasin me

The WOOD.

Keep teasin me youll have your hands full Think Ill fuck me a dimple  he laughed

STOP.

          WAIT!    I think I’ve got it.

Holdin my breath

Ironwood. 

Atta baby ya did it

Thank you.

              I am pleased with myself.

You please me

One thing more

Yes?

   Ironic wood

It’s ironwood.

It is 

     Ironic wood

her big beautiful eyes darted side to side  I don’t know, what’s ironic wood?

A small hard on

she went to shove him with both arms but he captured her by the wristspressed her up against himreleased onethrew his arm around her hugged her hard

                                        then kissed her as hard

releasing her Baby yare a good sport

                                         Whall we make for dinner this evening  Lots to choose from

1531,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

High Noon,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  3  8. 22

he was feeling playfultickled to follow up a friends benign remark with his own twist  jujitsu

He ought to know you by now  an interior Mariachi 

Youd think

Think hell pickup on it  Odds

Its not a coin toss you think I think  I think you doubt it                 

I think you doubt it

I do No collusion

nodding abruptly Ohhellno he almost lost his sombrero  We agree

agreed they were ridiculously gleeful he tossed out his line 

                                                                 A hard time

Definitely assuredly so. he nodded abruptly too but wasnt wearing a hat

Whadahell I like  NO I love givin girls a hard time

Love the twinkle in your eye the dirty smirk

Telegraph it too much

Nah reminiscent of silent films actors who had to exaggerate for emphasismake up for the lack of sound I love em  Thank you for continuing to watch

Well me you an yours are the only ones wholl sit through em

Youve asked

I have Its funnyalmost thathey think Im kiddin

You give girls, women, a hard time?

I doI love givin em a hard time

Doesn’t that chase them away?I wouldn’t.

You woudnt give a woman a hard time

                                             Theres things you can take for that

Too much

  No  he wont surprised us

he let things to take for that slip by and glommed onto the fact he was willing to give a woman a hard timepossibly cause effrontery  chase them off 

                                    I wouldn’t.

Yare really diggin your heels in

I wouldn’t want to minimise my chances.

Not confident are you

Confident enough, I just don’t see an advantage in antagonising a woman.

Here we go

Onward

Im not Actually Im stimulating them

You think antagonising someone stimulates them?

  Women  Yes

Can you explain?

Unfortunately I have to

You think his head will explode

No

Are you going to say?

 Unfortunately say   Excuse me I was lingerin in hopes youd follow my drift

No. Explain your how you’re stimulating them.

Hes really asking for it

Yes he is

The antagonism as you call it stimulates them 

                                                  I said I love givin girls a hard time Its nuanced in the delivery steppin in close speaking softer conspiratorially the tone expression on your face a playful suggestion  Women like to be teased very bit as much as men flirted with   GIVE THEM A HARD TIME

Lights arent going on 

No theyre not 

Have to be crass

Crass comin up

                    Moisten them up

Moisten?  his face twitched

                             MyGod . . you’re crass.

Imagine finally on the same page

Jujitsu

1531,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

1037,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  3  8. 22

Carl Douglas  Kung Fu Fighting  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g75QS0nNldA

You my B B F.

No Im not anfor cryinoutloud woudya please act your age

My kids told me . .

. . Woud they act their age  This kind of crap reminds me of my Maw shed say Use your words, you’re a big boy.

Use your words

I happen to think it's clever.

Trust me yare not the arbiter of clevernot by a long shot Strikes me thayare vying to be hip hang   Be groovy

It’s shorthand . .

. . Its specialised language like law medicine  sciences   Utilised to identify membership belonging  to include exclude Anyou  yahave a need to belong

Like you don’t? I think it’s human nature.

You prefer human nature evading avoiding Its truncated euphemism how hard is it to just say whaya mean because I got no problem walking away  Ive no need to fit in

he made a puss to implore himhed seen it too many times before I think it’s fun, it can be fun.

Then have fun with someone else  Im not entertaining it

Aw come on . . this one time. imploring was glaring out in the open  looked like thirdstage syphilis  cankers pox deformation

he actually took a step back

revulsion can do that

One time.

            What would you guess?

Bombastic bestial frank  A A   Adjectives all

No.

      You come up with that in the time I asked?

Yah

      Describes the You my . .  meaning me Adjectives were likely seemed to me

No.  That’s not what B B F means.

Three strikes and Im out

You act like you don’t want to know.

Im not acting

Best Friends Forever.

Oh thanks sounds like something a chick woud say Id be careful with tha if I were you Coud turn on you

Turn on me?

Best butt fuck                                                                                                          

1520,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

338preferred,  Twosday,  2  8. 22

walking up towards him as he sat at a table outside a coffee shop Hey man ya gotta lose the cap as he said he pointed to his head so cap didnt confuse him

he peered at him Lose my cap?

Yah Another fellas reputation precedes you anya donwanna be aligned with or mistaken for him  Hes bout your age stature look

the peer hardened he thought Save it for the girls you hang with  I have a reputat . .

. . A nondescript quiet reputation coud be soiled Ifya read this mornings paper I don think youd be wearing it Tryin to save you a little grief is all though I am tempted to start up with ya

Grief? My reputation . .

. . Your reputation befalls someone who hasnt moved around rolling stone gathers no moss  yare mossy   Im tellinya to lose the cap for a while until things blow over

It’s my team. 

  His too

             It woud be goodsmart not to be associated with

Associated . . what the hell are you talking about?

If you saw the local paper ya woudnt be askin

Why don’t you enlighten me? sarcasm  could cut it with a knife

Thank you I will a job I happily fill to protect you from yourself anya need a whole lotta help

                                                                                                  His reputation precedes you  I remember the case local fellow ya don want to be confused with him a paedophile recently released from prisonreturned home   religiously he wears a 49ers cap he coudnt say why but the song Getting to know you sounded in his head  . . . my cup of tea

1520,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

1211,  Twosday,  2  8. 22

Temptations  Papa was a Rolling Stone  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXiQtD5gcHU

Bing Crosby  Getting to Know You  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1LNc0RRhnw

irritated she crossed her arms harrumphed  Do you realise how often you interrupt me?

Ive no choiceyou leave me no choice

                                      Its my attempt to nudge you along your habit is to circle aroundbelabour points weve agreed upon I call it its called beatin a dead horse   When a coins stamped move along

she had said E.E. Cummings.

he said e. b. cumming

E. B.? You’re wrong, could be you’re thinking of E. B. White.

Nah e. b. cumming

Edward Estlin.

Yes Elwyn Brooks

Elwyn Brooks?

E. B.

Ah, yes.

Not my e. b.

Cummings?

Cumming

I’m . . she was frustrated . I’m . . not following you.

e. b. Eager beaver

Eager beaver.  What?

Eager beaver cumming   he also interrupted her because nobody rolled their big beautiful eyes like she did very fetchinghence   worthwhile

                               You were saying before I interrupted

like a toy balloon with a slow leak  What was I saying?

I wasn’t being rhetoricalwhat was I saying?you know . . . when you interrupt me you knock me off my train of thought.

Not much of a train babe

1516,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

1014,  Twosday,  2   8. 22

Savoy Brown  Hellbound Train  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6TkCLDcC7o

What can I say, we were two different people.

Yasay tha now

                 their server was passing  he dug her shapeher lavendercoloured uniform darkpurple apron  Excuse me Rennie coud I get a refill on my coffee please

Yes, I’ll be right back.

Thank you

You’re welcome.                   

  There Bought ya some time  You have a rejoinder 

                                                          Rejoinder Yasee Im tryin to credit ya with the ability to spout something sharp  witty

Thank you no, I don’t want to work that hard.

I can understand  after all your hard work on your failed marriage

                                                                          I get a rimshot for tha

You’re not funny.

Im not Im being caustic

                         Kindness flagged some time ago I don know why were talkinbout itwhy ya brought it up

Because it comes up time to timecrosses my mind . .

. . Runs me over 

                  Idve thought What’s love have to do with it? woudave cauterised it Ive got a backup to curl yare hair ifya like

You have a backup?

Im your brain trust I do 

                         Ya want it

Sure, kick me while I’m down.

You shouldnt be downYES Shouldnt   Its behind you You escapedaside from your emotions relatively unscathed

Rennie placed her hand on his shoulder a breast at his backleaned over him to pour the coffee 

he looked up into her iceblue eyes as she concentrated 

                                                          No time to be funny Joe, fresh hot coffee, I don’t want to spill in your lap.

No don do tha Im fixating on your eyes so mine don wander

when she finished pouring stepped up beside him they did

Rennie smiledfreakin dimples In some quarters, Joe, that might be thought sexual harassment.

No baby pure admiration

Then one day, baby, you ought to ask me out.

he nearly flipped

it must have showed in his eyes

deeper dimples Ask.

I woudnt have thoug . .

. . Because you’re old enough to be my father?

I am

You are. But correct me if I’m wrong . . we have a chemistry.

  We do

           Though I thought you were only being nice

Quit thinking.

               You’ll excuse me, I’m working. she walked away

he watched

She knows you’re looking.

She does

Damn . . that was something else, I wouldn’t have believed you had you told me.

You can believe me 

                     An such a perfect seque   Curl your hair

Curl my hair?

Before Rennies stealth attack

Before?

Mygawd hint 

                 Brain trust

  Got zip.

Ever tire of zip

No . . I don’t want to work that hard. he beamed broadly  Besides . . it’s rare you forget . so just say . . . excoriate me . .

. . Disembowel you

                      I said you can believe me She saidyoull recall when I say What’s your hang up with honesty.

AWFUCK.

Cauterise it  Ya made a mistake ya corrected it

1448,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

1331,  Monday,  1  8. 22

E. E. Cummings wrote . .

. . Uppercase  lowercase

How is it you jump in with . .

. . e. b.  Lowercase

she fixed him with a look that she thought might have looked like Medusas

It needs work

You’re frustrating. Can we agree it's E. E., either upper or lower . . not E. B.

e. b. lowercase as e. e. usually is to my perception

e. b.?

Yup eager beaver cumming

                               Creamy 

OhmyGod. 

            Can’t for a moment you pull your head out of the gutter?

I like to think of it as a cunt antherefore no definitely definitively not In up to my ears Anlets remember it wasnt me who brought us to this trough to slop Cant load ancock anthink I wont pull the trigger

                                                                                           You were going to The Enormous Room werent you

her shoulders fellhead tilted to a side You know it?

I own it 

          Where is it

It’s in storage.

My lifes in storageYES

When did you read it?

Before high schoolHell before Junior High

Why?

Why woud I read a book or poetry

                                     I was a paperboy I read the news I was curious Got to admit e. e. lowercase sticks out like a sore thumb

Have you read it

I only just heard about it.

Read e. e. the same time I settled in to read Madox Ford Madoxs Good Soldier Hemingways Farewell to Arms My grandfather fought in the war He died before I was old enough to talk with him about his experiencesnot necessarily his war experiences but his thoughts My Christian name is his I figured if I read the books I coud fashion a kind of understanding of him

Seems those books would have been a heavy lift.

No Baldwin was a heavy lift

                               Im not black or homosexual which was the predominantprevailing tag Youre it of the day asif ones sexuality mattered  Imagine  the American Psychiatric Association didnt declassify it as a mental illness until ’73

You . . a bit precocious?

No  Curious

1514,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

1503,  Monday,  1  8. 22

Tell me a story Story   Y yah  When we first met your told me it was IE Storie   yah

   So it is Y IE i-e i-e i-o  Ya recall  there was a farmer

she looked perturbed

He had a dog an Bingo was its name O

she didnt smile

which didnt bother him

he wasnt interested in her

he saw him approach from across the bar she had a bottle of wine at the tablehe asked if hed like another drink he did

sitting down he saw StorysStories expression

                                               What did I miss? his ask wasnt specific

he wasnt going to say

Nothing. StoryStorie said

I ask because you look . . miffed . troubled?

No.

Coudjustbe her bitchy resting face he started to laughthey didnt Awcomon youve heard thaseentha the chick from AT&T commercials  no expressions cold fish

                                             NO Its funny

Shall we change the subject Sex

Sex? he asked

he looked perturbed

StoryStorie followed his lead

I wanna get the three nonos out on the table so we coud either elaborate on them or go onto other subjects  Im the third wheel here  However if yawere to ask Id say I was the third rail  live rail live wire  lively wired

Want me to go first

Ill go first

How many people would you saynot thayave kept count yave known biblically

Ohfor Christ’s sake. he muttered

Really? she asked

  Yah  An because I asked Ill say first Very few

StoryStorie

I’m not saying, I think you’re being ridiculous.

Yacoudave saved us this ifya told me a story We coudave caught Bub up in no time               

You just call me Bub?

I did Im being provocative Seems StoryStorie doesnt wanna play  Howbout you

I’m not going to say either.

  No   Okay  Then Ill close out the sex portion of this conversationthink ifyawanna scorch politics or religion next

Ive known few women biblically  Im not keen on the missionary position

JesusChrist.

Religion next  he was enthused

You'll excuse me please, I have to go to the ladies’ room.

she went to stand he stood

Why are you standing?

When a woman goes to standexcuses herself gentlemen rise Im unlike your date

standing Thank you. In more ways than . .

. . Him  In many more ways than one

she left

he sat

         Whacha got Bub  I toldya I aint a good wingman 

No you’re not.

1448,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

1134,  Monday,  1  8. 22

Bitchy Resting Face  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XinArKp_6fs

Nauh

 Nauh nauhno   not now  No not now Ive got too much to do yetgot no time to die . . .

    one needs Lifes juice in order to complete projects startedprojects midway  nearing their end

its not I donwanna die  which is inevitableknownunderstood

its I got this one thing to finish Please lemme finish it 

                                                       hed beg get down on his kneesbow his head plead make a fool out of himself

whatever it took

                  Pleease pleease . . .

Death is ruthless

itd shake its head understandingly actACADEMY AWARD performance like it gave a shit tilting its head to one side an act of earnest consideration slyly wink at the mute collectedcrowding greyshadows and blackghosts

Pleease . . .  falls on deaf ears

                                 As yasaid  Nauh   Gotta go yare holding up the line

It was worth a shot

  

2029,  Sunday,  31  7. 22

1018,  Monday,  1  8. 22

Del Shannon  Runaway  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S13mP_pfEc

Burial  Dog Shelter  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTv1WjHBn8