she appeared out of synch staggering   lurching

                                                      a stumbling apparition last night

he walked towards her cautiously intent on offering help

                                                                  feeling something   off

a moonless night  pitchblack

                              yellow cones of lights shining down from streetlamps on either corner

they werent near them

   she wore a white stockingcap white scarf around her throat its ends tailed down her back   white socks

slacks jacket shoes   dark

he guessed she was either inebriated or stonedwondered why she was alone

he saw her as he rounded the corner gained easily on her

                                                              he walked heavily heels hard at the concrete so she could hear him approachso he didnt frighten her

Whoa whoa he muttered thought she was going over facefirst recovered  staggered backwards

                                                                                                     righting herself she stutterstepped sidewise held something in her hands maybe a book clutched to her chest

then feet widespaced shuffling she turned to his approach head tipped down

                                                                                  he couldnt see her face

   

   closing before he could speak she began lifting her headBRILLIANTBLINDINGLIGHT BROKE

he stopped 

               she was gone

 

0937,  Reggaefriday,  8  4. 22

1143,  Thursday,  15  2. 24

for purpose of transparency he wakes every morning checks his newsfeed hes dismayed to learn former hadnt died overnight

           Ohweel another day sets one foot down ahead of the other

soo . . .

         no surprise

he understandsknows

                         money donated to the RNC – pay attention donors – is nothing more than tithes to pay legal fees for orange Jesus

his daughter-in-law vying as a nominee to the RNC salts his suspicions away

                                                                                   twat supports cunt

1750,  Thursday,  1  2. 24

1636,  Thursday,  15  2. 24

https://people.com/donald-trump-nominates-lara-trump-rnc-co-chair-8576653

he didnt trust adults with white teeth  Chicklets

                                                    Dem milk teeth dem babies buhbye by six

Whakinda life they been livin

lipstick on a pig

take a woman to bed wakeup in the morning with someone they didnt recognise

                                                                                     Who you

her face smeared all over the pillowcase

                                            aint able to wash that away

bring another woman to bed

                                Who's that?

Whacha talkinbout baby

Don’t sweet talk me. Who’s the woman?

Theres no woman  Thas a pillowcase

Yeahshit . . she's lookin right at me.

She aint lookin at you

So you admit it’s a she.

Wha am I a freakin monk

Gimme a buzz when she’s gone.

                                   she sashays from the room out of the house

      

should have bought a new complement of bedding

                                                     but

might wake up another morning with a new face smeared on the pillowcase and again   not recognise the woman in their bed

           Whasay we go to your place

then they can pretend theyre gettin it on with two women

                                                                 see the logic

when adults have Chicklets

                              they were afforded or have disposable income and have disposed it on themselves

vanity

       like a puddle

                      aint deep

he hasnt ever had the wealth for vanity

though he wasnt vain

him and Popeye

                   I yam wha I yam

also figured

              theres plenty of pretty boys who leave not only her face smeared on pillowcases but theirs

                                                                                                              mirror images

knock themselves out

he trusted neither

   Christ

           Beauty is only skindeep  Vanity is as deep as a well

1804,  day-between-2-Ts – Valentines Day,  14  2. 24

1951,  Valentines Day

he promised to make nice for the day

                                           had to get his head around why he did

the needling gentlepleading animeeyes

                                          YUP

anwhile some guys were suckers for the Big Brown Eye treatment

                                                                       he wasnt 

biggest test was with his wife                                                 

he told her when they met it wouldnt work with him

                                                        hed seen her ply it

gauntlet thrown down she tried her damnedest

   You weren’t shitting me.

I wasnt

          might have been one of the ingredients that made her fall in love with him

he  he loved her tenacity

                           was definitely one of the ingredients that made him fall in love with her

   they never discussednever asked Why

just Was

           hard to question Was

they werent astrological matches

she was Pisces Water 

he was Aries Fire

                    she kept trying to douse his flame while he kept tryin to heatup her water 

ANYWAY

              thinkinbout makin nice for Valentines

the heart wants the heart wants

Weel

      maybe more than the heart wants

old joke

          if pussy wasnt to be eaten why does it look so much like a taco

or a puff pastry cannoli cone

or a fortune cookie

lap the filling

unscroll the thinpaper fortune with his tongue

                                                   slowly

until the pullinyankin on his ears made him believe they were going to come off

letem

       he was cool

HAPPYhappiest VALENTINES DAY

1334,  Monday,  5  2. 24

1441,  day-between-2-Ts – Valentines,  14  2. 24

Awrightawright awrightee   Huddle up huddleup

                                                       cast an eye at him over their shoulder  You too

ME

Yahyou

   usually shehes heshes operated behind the scenes behind the curtain – think Wizard of Oz – an left him to his own devises  or rather tried subtly to influence him

it was the first time they insisted on a powwow with him

Okay clown shehe addressed him

                                      Whas today

Day-between-two-Ts

You tryin to be an asshole

nearlyabruptly made him take a step back  almost

                                                     No Unless you describe someone who is no nonsense an asshole  Im a N N  not A S S

Clever  Its Valentines Day

   It is

I want youwe we want you to be nice

                                          Todays a new day We want to enjoy it  So can you take your foot off the gas let go of last nights plan to exile whitey for a day

he mused

                  the silence intrigued them

Its MAGA

           Making Atrocious Go Away   Yadon think thas a good idea

Yesterday  Yes

                    But todays today A romantic day   Canya put it down for a day Romeo

Used to be a Romeo

                       Now farfetched

Understood  Please

                      Just today  For us

they leaned in together needled him with gentlepleading animeeyes

   Okay awright  For today for youse

Wha a prince

                  Thank you

Youre welcome

they were polite

                        well  not always

0844,  Valentine’s Day -- day-between-2-Ts,  14  2. 24

1053,  Valentine’s Day

Beatles  Yesterday  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrgmdOz227I

he believes he has a better idea than cunt Stephen Miller and the cunt he serves

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-potential-impact-of-trumps-extreme-deportation-and-immigration-agenda

rather than pitting Red state National Guards against Blue state National Guards IF former is elected  destined bloody events  regarding Dreamers immigrantsillegal immigrants  Come now thas how whitey views them

                                                                                                        howbout this

rather than deportation or concentratecamp coloured people

                                                                droves who are desirous to participate in American freedom

they have skin in the game

                             theyve walked hunreds of miles

since we are more of them

                             logistically      

lets have white people migratereturn to from where their families came

                                                                           theyre apparently okay defiling the historic promise emblematised by the Statute of Liberty

former  DRUMPF can return to Germany

Miller to Belarus formerly Antopol

                                      a new revitalised American Colonisation Society  ACS

1927,  2sday,  13  2. 24

If you coud  try to relax

                          Quit turning things over in your headthem on theirs after youve made your decision  enacted it

I can’t.

   Why 

he was trying hard not to lose his shit with her

                                                  she had explained her reasons he had his but withheld themshe didnt ask and he had no intention of miring her with them

her explanation was tight held water but her innate proclivity presented she was secondtonone doubting herself

JESUS

 

   I can’t.

How can I help

You can’t.

Keep handing me cants without an explanation

I . . I have to do this myself.

I think yourself is handling you

                                   Tell me one thingonly one thing youd dispute of your argument your explanation to me

   I . I can’t . . . not right now.

Okay

         Excuse me  Let me repeat you an I want you to listen very hard

                                                                                 I cant  Not right now

If not now youre makingup an excuse  Its not a reason   Youre letting an excuse overthrow upset you

Anif I may

I have a suggestion delivered it with a sly smile

she caught it

                A suggestion.

Yes

      Guaranteed to take ya down a notch anif I may say  tha notch may be all you need to let go of the anxiety youre putting yourself through  thaya often do concerning tough decisions youve made  then secondguessing yourself

Youre a real beauty but if you hadnt the brains in your head superior to me I woudnt have continued dating you

So you say.

I also say beauty is only skindeep

                                     Itll fade  Brains keep   Don fade with selfderision

You know better Annot because I tell you youre better

                                                           I woudnt lie to you

   You . . you make it sound so easy.  It’s not.

I have a suggestion if  if youll listen   Hopefully you will

Okay.

Its something you need

I need.

Indubitably

              I love indubitably

You do.  a smile fluttered into her face

he saw There you go baby

                             Come  Play with me   Be my playmate

the smile quit fluttering stayed put   dimples

                                                   Atta grrl

What?

Whaya nee . .

. . What I need.

   Yes Whaya need is a good pho

                                      If youre not hungry  a good fuck woud do the trick too

I can help with either 

  

1350,  Sunday,  4  2. 24

1246,  2sday,  13  2. 24

Eurythmics  Would I Lie to You?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3HYOLJSoM

Did I hear you right? blinking rapidly

Something in your ah eye  eyes

   No.

       I hear you right?

I got a hole in my sole

Yes, that was it wasn’t it?

Yah

So . . are you saying . . . perhaps you changed your mind to something you say you haven’t . . haven’t the capacity to believe.

My mind Mynd  Pull back baby

                                   Don want ya fallin headfirst into the oven like Raisin Sweettooth

   Who?

shrugging Rosina Leckermaul Gingerbread excuse me because youre definitely not Gingerbread Hag  Anya know how much I enjoy gingerbread

                            Yours is awesome  he winked

she stammeredface got rosy

                                What?

complexion went well with her auburn hair freckles green eyes

Baba Yaga

             At once enigmatic ambiguous a witch a sweet old lady

she hadnt words

her mouth fell open

Better shut tha or Ill put it to use baby

   What the hell.

                      Can’t you just sa . .

. . Say Ive been sayin

                         Youre a sharp cookie  Thought one of those woud have landed

Yeahwell . . they didn’t.

Lets try this tact

                   Hansel and Gretel

A witch?

Which isnt to say bitch

                          I took ya off your legitimate heartfelt course Sole baby not S O U L  I concur love concurring with you

if perplexed had a face and she were a she shed look something like her yet nowhere near as goodlookin

Not S O U L.

No

     My shoe an shoemakers for all intent and purposes are extinct in America so walkin I remind myself of Burroughs  Junkie  Naked Lunch  cut-ups

His dogs last pair

                     You remember our cut-ups preceding our naked lunches

she blushed

Ill never forget em Not the pieces the nake . .

. . Would you stop?

If you like

   You set me up?

I woudnt have thought so Despite ambiguous my sole is the only sole Id consider

                                                                                      We know youre a good Baba Yaga

A witch?

Yah

      Have I been able to salvage my good standings despite takin you out an around the corner

   Yes.

          But please don’t do it again.

Ill try  I cant promise

If you’ll try. If you’ll try.

I will

       Lunch

he watched her bunch her fists

1331,  Monday,  12  2. 24

1945,  Monday

Brian Hyland  Gypsy Woman  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFemSWksmGk

. . . I think it was called knob and coil.

   Really

               Thas awfully sexual knob coiled

Jesus.

          How you get from early electrification to sex is beyond me.

Weel muthafucker I cant begin to guess whatype of sex you have but mine tends to be electrifyin

                                                                                                      Mornin noon or night everythings wetcant help but get shocked or crispy at the edges

Oh man.

           Maybe I can get you off sex for a brief moment, I might have mistaken what it was called.

he went to his everready smartphone because he wasnt anwas impatient to find out

for him all bets were off he was cuntent with coiled knobs redglowing cinnamonelectricity the visuals kept comin an comin an comin

                 how the fuckin guy cant put his phone down an imagine was beyond him  seemed not only coudnt he muster nightdreams but daydreams also

                                            PUT THE PHONE AWAY but he didnt say  

I was wrong. Knob and tube.

I prefer the prior

he ignored him read “Knob and tube wiring, usually abbreviated to K and T . .”

. . Why abbreviate why an acronym  I had electric sex with Katie Get it  Letter K letter T

   You wanna hear this or not?

Weel  You want to read it so read   Suppose Ill be smarter for it 

Thank you. “Usually abbreviated to K and T . .”

. . Cant leave well enough alone huh

No. Not when it’s lowhanging fruit.

You said it not me Youre all about lowhanging fruit continue

a tick appeared at the corner of his mouth

he let it tick out before he began again

                                           “Usually abbreviated K and T, is a form of electrical system that was in common use prior to about Nineteenfifty. K and T gets its name from the knobs and tubes used to run electrical cables through a house . .”

. . Or outside it Santa Cruz California

   “Run electrical cables through a house. In a K and T system, the wires run through a series of porcelain cylinders – the tubes – in the floor joists.”

   Now we know

I corrected myself.

However your correction has not averted the taste of female flesh in my mouth or lessen the tumescence Ive a hankerin for

      Im sure youll excuse me  Theres someone I need to call 

Lend me your phone woudya

Callin K T 

1409,  day-between-2-Ts,  7  2. 24

1231,  Monday,  12  2. 24

Beegees  Lonely Days  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa2_CL-2ZI4

Bob Dylan  Buckets of Rain  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGsOmKZXDvo

https://www.thespruce.com/how-old-is-your-wiring-1152880

That’s not funny.

                   he was trying to talk over his buddy insane laughterwhen he went there itd be awhile before hed be back

      That’s not funny.

                         buddy had tears in his eyes

literally was trying to catch his breath

That’s not funny.

buddy spatout It is sucked air

                             Oh  but it is

It’s only funny to you because it’s about me.

Wooo sucked air

                 Yare a funny guy Ought to be able sucked air  laugh at yourself 

wentoff on another tear

When you can stop, we can talk. he crossed his arms over his chest

 

 

wiped the tears out of his eyes laughter downgrading to stuffedchortles

   Now?

A sec           Now wooo

                                Okay  I think Im done    No promises Thawas hilarious if youd have seen your face myGawd   Oh myGawd

                           Too thinskinned dude

I’m not . .

. . You are

I think if the shoe were on the other foot . .

. . But it woudnt be When I coudnt play the game to the level of competitiveness I wanted I walked

                                                                                                         An since fuckinup my shoulder surgery shots are wayoff  I wont shoot hoops either

You refuse to watch it on television.

I do right there with baseball  zip interest

                                              Hell As it stands I watch only pro football highlights muster enough stomach to tolerate an entire Super Bowl  An occasional hockey game

That’s you. You do you . .

. . An you do you  Evenif its halfass you

I’m . .

. . Don protest halfass Admittedly you don have a jumper a fadeaway

Don’t go there.

   he was trying like a sonofabitch to suppress his laughter as it began gurglinchurnin inside

I said . . . don’t go there.

Bro  Cant help myself

                        Youre a selfdescribed he choked an again   choked SELFDESCRIBED LIMPER

he went off on another tear

That’s not funny.

313preferred,  day-between-2-Ts,  7  2. 24

1103,  Monday,  12  2. 24

The Pretenders  Forever Young  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kgvxivr8Q