I didn’t know that was a thing, is that a thing?

Im tellinya

           Pretty innocuous off the tongue should you say in a nonparticipating salon you can easily excuse yourself  say never mind or yogurt 

Yogurt?  

  TCBY the cluelessness in his face was uncomfortable to witness anhe was usually one who dropped acronyms because he thought them clever The countrys best yogurt

                                                But  as I was saying a hairdresser isnt likely to press you they consider their tip the customers always right  right

Ohright . . that makes sense, no pun intended.

not clever None taken 

So how would you bring it up? continuing proof he wasnt

How woud you 

                   the vacuousness continued Ya keep your ears open eyeballs peeled seques  it killed him Yare clever

I’m not sure I’m that clever.

Then be blatant but keep in mind Never mind keep yogurt in your back pocket

he laughed

            Yogurt in my pants sounds unpleasant.

Id agree

TCB huh?

Yes correct 

            Anyet again  participating salons  Yare in the know he wasnt  he was yanking his chain  he had refused to alter his online dating resumerefused to appreciate that a single dealbreakernot three or four killed the pursuit the appeal   So if a woman owns a dog, you really have no interest in dating her?   If she has small children yare not interested   No I’m not, but they aren’t dogs.   Arent they

he rolled his eyes  Again, TCB means?

Trim cut blow

Trim?

Aesthetician you see one on and off hence trimtrimming things up Cut cut your hair Anablows a blow 

                                                                                                              Theres no expectation of you returning the favour unlike wha I an others woud consider normal sex

Yeah. he sneeredsmacked his lips  Not so much. 

Ya really need to alter your resume man

I'm not going to minimise my chances.

  Yare lying

             For someone who says theyre honest tha behooves me

It’s just a little white lie.

Keep tellin yourself tha keep tellin yourself that  Jaysus

0736,  Saturday,  17  9. 22

1324,  Thursday,  13  10. 22

they were introduced by a casual acquaintance 

he bumped into themhadnt gone there expecting to see anyone 

he went because the bar played pro football games on a big screen muted

                                                                              thats how he watched them at home could do without the gasbaggingthe commentary he knew what he saw      

after a pleasant hello a brief exchange he excused himself and made his way to the bar where he moved a stool aside and stood to watch the game 

                                The usual Billy his usual a double Irish Uinta Detour on tap 

a while later she came up on himtouched his shoulderwound around and stood with her back to the screen so he was able to avert his eyes catch the game

smart cookie  

team he rooted for was up a touchdown driving  inside field goal range 

he asked if he could buy her a drink   

Let me think.

he liked women who thought 

I see you’re wearing a ring.

he didnt follow her eyeshe was 

                                   I am

It’s okay you’re out?

he thought but didnt say what he thought 

                                                Im a big boy Why wouldnt I my wife doesnt mind

she tipped her head like a dog catching a dog whistle

                                                         She doesn’t mind? You have an arrangement . . an open marriage?

She doesnt mind 

                   he let her dig a hole  she could as easily have said no thank you 

but she was interested 

he was interesting

he ask if she wanted a drink  not fuck   

So you have an open marriageyou’re upfront about it? 

                                                           a spade full  then another  

She doesnt mind 

                    he wasnt helping

I don’t know if I want to have a drink with a married man.

Im not married

A divorced man . tried that . . messy.

  No  Unfortunately my wife died 

                                    her hole was pretty deep but he thought if shed like hed buy her a drinkhelp her refill it

I’m sorry.

Me too

I . . I . .

Made an assumption

embarrassed Made something . . didn’t I?   

Buy you a drink

Yes . please . . that would be nice.

Fine  Billy 

             Youll excuse me if occasionally I glance at the game he was up ten

I like football, we can watch together.

Cheering for one over the other

she glanced at the screen looking back he saw she recognised their uniforms 

                                                                                  Who are you cheering for?

No  Rooting for one over the other 

                                    Billy came up  What will you have? 

I’ll have what you’re having.

Double up the usual please Billy

Yabetcha.

  And

You’re sparse with your words.

I am

Chiefs.

Yare beginning to see the light                                 

1840,  Monday,  3  10. 22

1411,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  12  10. 22

Dior showed up at his door 

                           not his actual door rather a pestering online ad Johnny Depp playing guitarair guitar wasnt a Depp fan either apparently algorithms jimmyinglooking over his shoulder under his bed in his closet around the corner had their heads up their e-asses

                                   Ee-i-ee-i-oh

                                                          missed the memo

phoney shit need not apply hence scents colognes cosmetics fashion or influencers

barking up the wrong tree

this coon fooled em

could have been the mask 

                          maybe e-asses thought a cyberbandit broke in compromised him were trying to sell the bandito on Sauvage

              Dior stood a better chance plying him with Sausage  Nahnot really

2051,  Twosday,  11  10. 22

1238,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  12  10. 22

Jimmy Jones  Ee-i-ee-i-oh  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTN4BtfXug4

so many bugged that marriage should only be between a man and a woman

It's more than four thousand years old. 

tried and true 

tried and true 

                  hmmm its originalprimary purpose was to bind think about that bondage bind a woman to a man “thus to guarantee that a man’s children were truly his biological heirs” and what of the children he conceives outside of marriage 

biology he wants to get his rocks off  marriage also provided that a woman became a mans property

put the shoe on the other foot

 

would a man submit to marriage if he became a womans propertyOH stop it some might scold Times have changed 

bottom-line

            marriage is a contract between two people antes upped when god is tossed into the mix nevertheless a contract 

 

he was sick and tired of politicians running on the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman       

1518,  Twosday,  11  10. 22 

0958,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  12  10. 22 

https://theweek.com/articles/528746/origins-marriage 

Beatles  Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J9NpHKrKMw

if one doesnt know where hes coming from its a worthless line (Marv Sin City “Now that’s one fine-looking coat you’re wearing there.”) 

                 he said Thas one fine-looking dog you got there

 

she was a small groomed yippee mutt 

                                        might have been purebred but he couldnt give two shitshe wasnt fond of dogs

unsuspecting the dog-walker said Thank you.

  Yah

        Now do me a favour shut her up  cuz ifya don Ill either break her neck or fuck her cant tolerate yippee-yi-o dogs

evidently he proved credible 

                           the walker snatched her up  indignantly Well I never! 

Maybe shed quit yappin 

I NEVER.

Have now

the bitch yipped 

Gag her quick or her worlds gonnabe woeful 

                                               since walker held her Maybe ya can tuck an run

evidently he proved convincing 

                                  walker took off on a dead runrunning faster than he looked 

funny how when incentivised someone can lend if not assure productivity

he turned his backwalked in the other direction 

from afar he heard a yip 

                           bitch has to have the last word

  

1408,  Thursday,  24  3. 22

1245,  Twosday,  11  10. 22

Marv  Sin City  1:46minute-mark  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkIwopkWD_M 

NSync  Space Cowboy  (Yippie-Yi-Yay)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-cymQhbzk

Viktor Orban is full of shit 

                           which is what he shares with the former president should never have been

https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-donald-trump-end-war-ukraine-russia/

Hungarys autocrat then wonders in a tweet where Former is

                                                                  a funny funny man

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungarian-viktor-orban-to-twitter-where-is-donald-trump/

Orban follows 42 people – including Giorgia Meloni Matteo Salvini Recep Tayyip Erdogan Jair Bolsonaro Tucker Carlson Jordan Peterson 

                     OH  the pope

https://twitter.com/USAmbHungary/status/1579855367181565955?s=20&t=J7CQNY1U775SHm17mOl-cw

    hmm   abductive reasoning if it looks like a duck swims like a duck quacks like a duck its probably . . .

1031,  Twosday,  11  10. 22

cats got into his papers againscattered them everywhere across the studio  looks like they had a ball

he wasnt upset

like people cats will be cats

the only daunting thing was that he didnt number the pages or date them he had written at a fever pitch the day beforeexhausted himself he went to bed without undressinglaid on top the blanket 

                                                                                        there were better than thirty pagesboth sides though curiously he failed when finishing a side to turn it rotate the bottom up whichhe usually did had he he would have halved his work IDIOT  Lamebrain

                                                                   anwhen he became consumedexcited his handwriting suffered  even he struggled to read it most people found his quiet handwriting illegible

he had his work cut out for him

he went at it with stubborn humour

after shuffling the pages togethergrateful the cats hadnt shredded any though they liberally puncturedtore holes with tooth or nail he put on his reading glasses to assemble them

ten minutes in he found what looked like beginhere if it was that was where he started next word was either stroll scroll scrawll he took liberties spelling if it suited him or his purpose the two were not the same 

                                                                                                      what followed was something like a text bubble cartoon bubble textburp cartoonburp evidently he couldnt make up his mindliked options they looked wet how does a simple line drawing look wet at their edges he could imagine they were silverlighted slick as spit expectorated crudely on the page 

                                    either stroll scroll scrawll an ancient bug swallowed in amber  an unidentified bug  Nope, never saw anything like that before.   Things got twelve legs   Is it two bugs? two insects six plus six is twelve.  Don see two heads   Me either.   So what did you mean   I don’t remember.   Its not even written in the same ink as the rest of the page   Like a lace a splash of magma.   Yah 

eventually he cobbled the piece together

if something would have given him a headache this ought to have done it

Knock on wood

zip headache

1341,  Thursday,  7  4. 22

231preferred,  Monday – Indigenous People Day,  10  10. 22

Loure  Ruminate in Blue  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFw-EaiRtSU

muzak

so unappealing

                who are the clowns that decide the crap pumped through speakers onto the heads into the ears of patronsconsumers 

                     perhaps it speaks to corporate worlds callous take-it-or-leave-it attitude their top-down quiet disdain Sssh . . We got em by the balls, where else they going to go? 

                                                         hed paraphrase vice-presidentthen president Calvin Coolidge after elected President Warren G. Harding died in office – the only good vice-president who ascended to the presidency after the presidents sudden death was Theodore Roosevelt -- the business of the America is business 

                                                                                                          thats their valuation of hard-earned American dollars their sacred bottom-line their exceptional indispensable primacy 

   perhaps 

              what did he know

although he knew crap when he heard it

he had to listen to it as the elevator rose

                                        entering in a rush behind him she pressed 20  Goddammit. she turned to him  apologetically  I’m terribly sorry . I meant 22.

he was riding to 28

                     Don sweat it accidents happen I appreciate your consideration  Thank you its fine

Thank you.

the doors shut they began to rise 

                                       OhmyGod I hate this music.

Muzak

Yes, correct, muzak.

You understand why they play it

Why?  There's a why?

he smiled it looked like she could take a joke despite the obvious dismay that chased her in

she smiled back 

                  I’ll bite . . why? 

he liked bite  looked like she could help herself to big mouthful 

                                                             Its to give people cover when they fart

OhmyGod! dismay fled her face she laughed mighty hard  didnt cover her mouth

1550,  Thursday,  6  10. 22

1038,  Monday – Indigenous People Day,  10  10. 22

http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2010/01/business-of-america-is-business.html 

muzak  Beatles’ All My Loving  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taz7Zi7BEcw

it was funny

            his buddy didnt find it funny but he wasnt clever half as hequarter as he why was he splitting hairs he wasnt clever but once in a blue moon then he needed acknowledgement because he wasnt sure

Come on  thas funnyself-deprecating

friend didnt like self-deprecationwas touchy

                                               when he knocked all men as pigs friend was butthurt  I’m not.

You are 

         Were piggish one way or another . . 

. . I’m not.

Ya also aint a gift to women

                              Because youve pulled the wool down over a couplefews eyes don fool yourself Not a gift

And you are?

   No 

whenever they got into this ruckusthis Gordians Not friend failed to recall he always thas an absolute another thing tha offended him alwaysalways said No to And you are? 

                                                       learning curve be damned friend was obliviouslacked memory except for his Bruce Springsteen Glory Days tales 

                                                     he was no Ulysses

   No 

       Oink oink oink anhed laugh enjoying the dark scowl on friends face 

Christ ya hold yourself in mighty high esteem  Whas tha like   Whas it like to be peerless

You certainly aint.

No 

   Given my faults if I were a diamond ya coudnt give me away probably why Im easy anyes ya can quote mescrawl my name in black magicmarker on Womens room stalls 

                                                          that flustered him toohe couldnt imagine going into a Womens bathroom because it wasnt a Mens room 

                                            Theyre no cleaner than a guys room man

his expression was choice 

                           women on pedestals in white horse drawn chariots kill dragons for

he enjoyed women who killed their own dragons wondered tha friends dragons looked like 

back to funnywha made friend flinch 

                                        Ya understand our births are zip according to game theory

theyd been talking about the game Go the black an white stones appealed aesthetically he thought he might like to dabble with it but the more he thought the more he recognised it was a zero-sum game a game like chess strategy if he knew one thing about himself anhe knew manymany things he despised strategy planning liked going off halfcocked explained his broken bones and scarsexplained his willingness to die on every hill   

Speak for yourself.

No Im speaking for both of us 

                                Yawerent an immaculate conception rather fumbling in bed an a fuck

riled NO.

Your parents didnt fuck

How dare you?

Mine fucked I like fucking   Wha did your parent do an wha do you do

You’re rudeyou understand how rude you are?

Rude versus prude

                      Take rude every time

1507,  Thursday,  6  10. 22

1159,  Sunday,  9  10. 22

Bruce Springsteen  Glory Days  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUOgIgLqOQ 

Cream  Tales of Brave Ulysses  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2CCfxiQ5QY

it was ironic

he read that Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature

every year with the news he sought to read a book by the winning author he had the majority of Bob Dylans vinyl 

he thought hed start with her Happening

                                           anwha happened  his online library search informed him Happening was available only as an ebook

an ebook

utterly worthless to him

                         whawas the experience of reading words emotions in light and not printed on paper these words were ironic 

             reminiscent of on-screen porn

   succinctly

               hed rather be having sex than watching itrather a book in hand than his cock

                                                                                                 made perfect sense

 

“There is no such thing as a lesser truth.” Ernaux

1008,  Sunday,  9  10. 22

she reminded him

had she not he wouldnt have remembered

and it is memorable 

8 years ago todayOctober 8 under the Blood Moon eclipse  2014  they murdered a god

he said they because they were in the car together

she said they because he refused to sacrifice them

the god left him no options 

                        

they were traveling on the highway at better than 70 miles per hour there was a right bend to the road a deep culvert left a stand of trees right  He stood on the shoulder of the road had come up out of the cleft

Ohno no no he cried 

                     crying loud enough to rouse her as he went to slap her thigh  to prepare

Aw no manplease  please stay right where you areStay Im not swervingIm keeping my line

the deer ran out in front of them 

                                just before impact in the headlights the deer shone brilliantblue he thought maybe theyd pass harmlessly through it 

                           IMPACThood sprung covered the windshield the deer went over the car airbags deployed he took his foot from the gasslipped down into the seatpeered through the space between the dash and the hood  eventually he coaxed the car to the side of the road and began braking to a stop 

Are you okay he asked

                         she said her abdomen and chest hurt she had reclined the seat to sleep  the shoulderharness was worthlessthe belt around her hips didnt help she slipped nearly into the leg space under the glovebox 

                                                                                                                he unclasped them called 911 called insurance got out of the car crossed in front of it was dumbfounded it wasnt painted electricblue he opened her door and helped her out How are you feeling he didnt see any woundsnothing apparent he helped her up onto the knoll at the foot of the trees and laid his jacket down for her to lay on  Okay baby try an relax relax  see if you can feel anything  assess any other pains 

                                              The deer?

Im afraid its dead

You saw the blue light it emanated?

I did  Yes

We killed a god.

1548,  Saturday,  8  10. 22

1648,  Saturday

laughing to himselfhe turned away from looking out the train window the giggle was for two storefronts side by side bays he saw CHA CHA CHA dance studio Highstreet cannabis dispensary

                                                                                 he enjoyed their randomness symbiosis arrangement his daughter went by Chacha to her nieces spun off Polish Ciocia aunt and that she was also terribly well-versedknew the best labels for varieties of cannabis their strains indica sativa hybrids CBD THC CBG an anti-inflammatoryran circles around his grass nomenclature he wasnt cool he liked to fire up a joint hit a bong  nibbles gummies lacked ritual

                        but that was himhe did him others could do themselves 

What?

Yaheard me it went without saying and he wouldnt

as he turned in SETTING train interior he was just in time to catch a burly chick stomp all she had was stomp past his seat the aisle just large enough to accommodate her ass

shaggy rustred hair hung out of a knitted banded stocking cap that wasnt colour-coordinated with the jersey she wore got her moneys worth on its back was

                                         TONIGHT 

                                                              WE FLY 

ohferChristssake please someone clip her wings  she dropped out of the sky somebody might get hurt

she took a seat that was opposite a seat facing her

the train stopped in Camarillo

an announcement came over the PA explaining that seats facing one another were meant for parties of three or four

If you’re seated there, please move to allow parties to sit together.

the train lurched into motion

a conductor came through taking tickets from newly-boarded passengers 

                                                                             he saw her couldnt miss her  and walked by without a word

   Hmm he thought maybe she could fly  though couldnt imagine with who antha was saying something

0855,  Monday,  12  9. 22

1151,  Saturday,  8  10. 22