a cowboy a redneck and a polack are standingwaiting in a grocery cashier line behind a Mexican

      sounds like the beginning of a joke doesnt it

the redneck points back to the cowboys waxed carton of organic milk on the conveyer belt

                                                                                               Organic, what’s that about?

There's no antibiotics in it, cows can’t be treated with 'em, trouble today is that we’re ingesting ‘em all the time, which isn’t good, we become immune, our health’s impaired.

polack in the lead nods

                         Got that right brother  And its delicious

redneck says When I was a kid milk came in a gallon glass container, yacould see the cream at the top, my mother used to pour it off for her and the old man's coffee.

Likewise said the polack

As a matter of fact my mom, frying bacon, would pour off the grease and save it to make pancakes, used it in all sorts of meals.

As my mother did an I still do Great to wilt mixup in dandelion greens unopened buds

We didn’t have Kleenex either, we, brothers and sisters, had handkerchiefs to blow our noses in.

polack went into his back pockets showed them the two he carried

                                                                       Hey man careful Dating yourself

cowboy asked where they grew upsounded like they grew up in similar surroundings he offered he was local  fifth generation

            redneck polack noddedhmmed  polack  Fifth generation  redneck  Homegrown.

Ever been out of California asked the polack

Why?

Only other fifth generation Ive ever met was in Montana Theyd never been out of Montana

No.

redneck offered he was raised Central Valley Wasco north northwest of Bakersfield

polack said Humboldt Park Chicago

                                      Queer though directing his remark to the redneck an urban polack would have so much in common with a redneck then directing his remark to the cowboy You Glass gallons of milk bacon fat offal  organmeats

shook his head said no

to the redneck Organs Liver kidneys heart tongue  Oxtail

Yup.

Mexican interrupted Me too, hombre.

polack turned forward to the Mexican I knew that Our diets are crazy similar

Migrants? I understand Polish were hired by Germans seasonally to pick their crops.

Correct My grandmothers did as a little girl before she came to America Im second generation American

Me too. said the Mexican

Fifth generation cowboy said the polack  Sounds like a claim to fame Kids

Kids and grandkids.

Crazy 

        Americas a melting pot

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. . . Lovely

I told ya.

Cheeky too

She’s a pro . .

. . I cant afford

I’m affording.

Enjoy yourself

                   Havent  Ive no intentions now

Spoil yourself.

Not in my lane

Like your aversion to massages.

Look at you

             Gettin the message

standing on one bootleaning the small of his back against an upscale zinc bar top shelf liquors over his shoulder admiring their behinds in glass hed directed his attention solely to her

                                                                           Whas her name

Name?

        That’s no matter. She’s a pro.

John punctuating it  

head snappedhe sneered

Women have names

                      Also given the looks shes tossing this way I think   I think shes sweeter on me  Youll disappoint her   Her name

Im acknowledging her before I leave

   Youre something else.

                            Tricksy.

Gal looks clever

                  How she spell it

Really?

Why ya askin  Looks apparent to me

begrudgingly  T R I C K S Y.

See  Not a Beatrix Beatrice Patricia  Suits her 

                                                   Youll excuse me

he pushed off the bar made his way over to her table

                                                           Tricksy

she lifted her facelooked up at him

                                      animated eyeshadow

he was dying to ask her how she did that

didnt

       an as he didnt he mused embodied cognition  it was like him to duck out through side doors enter again through the rear exit or back in through the front  shaped by the state an capacities of the organism

Organism slipped his lips

Sorry. I didn’t catch you.

Excuse me cleared his throat as he thought orgasm  I said organism

   Organism. appeared that she wanted to toy with it but let it lay You’re a bit strange.

Youve no idea

                Tricksy  extending his hand  Im Joe

she took it

knew how to shake                                            

I was supposed to have been your date but Ive stuck you with lover boyo had no idea why he threw the O on

Boyo?

Ah  knew why

                Better than Bozo eh

she laughed gayly

when she subsided

                     I must say Ill probably regret this  But sighed yacant teach an old dog new tricks  she laughed again didnt cover her mouth  wished she did unabashed was appealing or change ones stripes

You don’t want to give it a go Joe?

   No   No

             Not tha Im not tempted Tricksy

I wanted to come overacknowledge you wish you a good evening

Thank you.

Youre welcome

                 he turnedwalked away  didnt look back

no need had shuffledstacked her inventory shed sneakup on him daunting daydreams when he least expected her

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Iron Butterfly  In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfpn3wHoNGA

he had a way of determining how stoned he was

                                                      Obviously

either knowing the milligrams of edible he ingested

or pops off a one-hit bong

or by the ridiculousness of conversation 

                                           sparring with a friend

his friend was inclined to broach unique subjects

                                                   for instance

epizeuxis

           repetition of a word or a phrase in quick succession No, I’d never, never, never ever do that. in his experience with a little loving care cajoling jokingteasing she did

plyometrics

             couldnt just say Jump he followed  an exercise

brachioradialis

                 slackjawsurprised him he knew hed dissected cadavers

keeping elbows in fists up he hit back  Tolkiens phonaesthetic cellar door leftcross rightcross  hypnagogic hypnopompic hallucinations states immediately before falling asleep and waking alliterations occurrences of same letters or sounds of closely connected words Best you bring backup buddy Bs were too much fun

still ascending friend would begin calling them pseudointellectuals

                                                                       higher

real pseudointellectuals

just before tipping the scalesclimaxing careening down the other side

                                                                          apex apoplectic

self-congratulatory real pseudointellectuals

if they werent high it might have been humiliating

                                                     friend if he said would immediately disagree felt the word had a negative connotation 

hed chide Nah Honestly humility humbleness  see what he did there

   beyond that point 

blue slope skiing rest the way down maudlin mental exhaustion there had been more going off in his head than he could say or explain and times when he tried he swamped friend  couldnt keepupcouldnt keep his head above water 

  

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Four More Years

exactly fuckinEXACTLY  four years ago

                                           the gutless rapist fraud

his decisions keep givingNAH  keep taking people from their family and friends

today 1,217,554 Americans have died from Trumpvirus 

2March 1,216,301 were dead 

11days 1,253 deaths

                           114 a day

while he runs for president after promising to be a dictator  runs to keep from going to prison

1,217,554 American deaths

                              which he takes no responsibility for

 

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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

he was scarcely awarefelt leftie stretch between his legswas up against his crotch felt her reachlong grip the quilt with the tines of her claw

   soon  shed get up

hed feel a chill seep her warmth dissipate from the depression her body made

Time to rise an shine hed ask

   not a bad way to wake

                             head and shoulders above those stretches of employment when he was wakened by an alarming clock

he had compassion for everyone whose ears were scalded

                                                                made him chuckled

he hoped somebodysomewhere had that compassion for him

his wife was lousy with alarms

itd bark

shed start

he silenced it

               wishing it had a throat he could strangle it by

   then gently hed stroke her shoulders her back Baby her  slowly rouse her

he set the ALARM early to buy her time to wake without duress of running late

hed help her out of bed get a full body hug a big kiss walked with his arm around her to the bathroom started a shower tumbled a towel her robe in the dryer for when she was out  made coffee  breakfast 

                                                                                          took her bags down to the car as she dressed

he waved to her until the car went around the corner

went back inside

set another ALARM to wake for work

                                       or went back to sleep because it was the weekend

he supposed it took those decades of work to earn leftie

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Nilsson  Gotta Get Up  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRh2PRa1tU

off the break he sank a solid and a stripe  was linedup on another solid

took it

chalked his cue left himself nicely

from the kitchen he heard his friend mutter

                                              heard like a bug buzzingtickling his ear 

   sounded  like he was rehearsing lines

                                             Don’t make the mistake of underestimating me.

Awman  Keep tha to yourself

Don’t make the mistake of underestimating me. 

Woudya shaddup

   cleared his throat Don’t you make the mistake of underestimating me.

he was gonna slap him

                         was replayingretreading to his overunderunderover estimations

a fools errand

wasnt confronting a worthy opponent

he worried being humiliated

                                 maybe  he erred he made the mistake of underestimating them

although

             humiliation

can be inspiring

                  certainly an incentive

hed invested in competition too long

                                       ME TARZAN

imagined shouldering a skeet shotgun  PULL

                                             knock tha swingin chimpman out of the air between vines

HE AINT NO TARZAN

So he said as he entered the room  I think I sound convincing.

   Excuse me  Wha

I sound convincing.

I didnt hear

             Still have the table  Yare striped Im solid

 

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Judas Priest  You’ve Got Another Thing Coming  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJMgveYdO-M

if he wasnt in some kind of state of agitation pain  FUCK

                                                         he wouldnt be who he was

wouldnt recognise himself

if he passed himself on the street

   had done it though

                          but rarely

didnt

        find the cut of his jib compelling

“What you regard as small, isolated incidents sets off a chain of events you could never have anticipated.”

                                                                                                                wasnt in his wheelhousedidnt have a strategy didnt worry logistics flew by the seat of his pants

hadnt let him down yetfigured  figured    when youre on a rollROLL muthafucker

                                                                                         governed by Newtons inertia

wouldnt let external forces fuck with his qi 

he could be a cunt with the best of em

                                         “You believe you’re making choices and all you’re doing is slotting in the pieces of a foreordained conclusion.”  Bruen  London Boulevard

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Phoebe Bridgers  The Know the End  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQByi9IHiZo

Temptations  Papa Was A Rolling Stone  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLMOaiHUzHo

Killers  Mr. Brightside  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvIJyRkS9y0

Thas a poor choic . .

. . Oh bullshit excellent choice

                                 Rolls right off the tongue, try it.

No not tryin it You understand the purpose of a safe word

I do.

Fine Tell me wha you understand

It tells my partner I want to stop.

Stop

Yes.

Correct

           Know whaya did there

What I did.   What did I do?

Made a clear concise declaration

                                    Stop

One syllable

I think your wordwhile youre understandably enamoured an enthralled by it is lousy

Lousy? Think I couldn . .

. . I think an aggressive partner ya wont have time

                                                       You like itknowin you because most woud be in the dark therefore it only confers attention on you

My little craven friend

So you know it?

I do took human anatomy late freshman year 

On cadavers?

Of course

How?how’d you possibly get in? That’s reserved for first year med students.

Or for someone who knows someone

                                       I had a letter of recommendation High biology teacher Mr Demerest I prepared all his exhibits for three years  I was awfully good

Applicable when I worked two summers as a butcher

Thasaid

           Were getting off subject

Poor choice

In B D S M currency  bondage discipline sadism masochism D an S can also stand for dominance submission 

wearily shook his head  bored I know I know.

I despise acronyms hence my tarry glad youre up to speed

Current parlance safe words red full stop yellow too hard slow down green disregard my screams go harder

Note yellow  two syllables  capeesh thas also two Yawant short an sweet

Brachioradialis Five  Aint gonna cut it

                                          Wont impress your partner

You know so muc . .

. . Forearm muscle flexes it at the elbow enables pronation supination dependent on the position of the forearm

Im happy to share mine I bellow NO

   Think about it

                          Christ

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Zappa  Camarillo Brillo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkppN14ugMo

Muffin Man  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWQb_T9_nwA

The Torture Never Stops  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw_LpINt8lk

. . . Whoawhoa  whoa

What?

Whoa

Whoa what?

You always been this way Estimating   Sizing up

                                                       Hungup on men

You don’t?

Hellno

         You know better

OHthat’s right.

                 You don’t see men.

Not in the least a waste of time

I hear you, but I have a hard time imagining you don’t.

Stop  You struggle to imagine so naturally its out of your wheelhouse

                                                                           Look at all the men you want compare em to yourself Im takinin takinadvantage of my time enjoyin the fairer sex  the superior sex   Theyre worthwhile

You’re so full of shit.

   Me

       While you ogle men  Thas rich

Tellya wha  lemme guess

trying to remain unriled little rouge in his cheeks Guess what?

Your apparentintrinsic ability of estimation  Physical estimation height weight

What of it?

Id wager an Im not a betting man  but Id wager you coud work a carnival make money guessin peoples weight

Maybe their pronouns or sex too

laughed  Pronouns. Yacrack me up

                                      Weight?  Ohyeah. Handsdown.

was lookin for confirmation

surprised him how glorious itd be

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ELP  Karn Evil 9  1st Impression  Part 2   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc6ymS4NGxg 

Ah  thaswha he was thinkin

                              sometimes things tried to slink away after he toldem Stay

treated em like obedient dogs

why he wouldnt have a dog

                              wasnt keen on obey obedience

   it was okay they tried

he wouldnt respect em if they didnt

                                     tried hard to put the shoe on the other foot

someoneanyone told him STAY

Can kiss me arse

                    Best bring backup

Wharya goin

stoppedemfast in their tracks acted like if they didnt look over their shoulder to his words theyd vanish into thin air 

disappear like a fart in the wind

   he recalled

having conversation with a mate

                                   they said theyd rather be overestimated than underestimated by an opponent  inevitably took things to physical competitions or confrontations

perhaps a kind of farcical male instinct hed overcome

he had scars matey curiously lacked

how does one come away from a knockdowndragout without lifelong blemishes  reminders   memories

   Really

Really what?

Underover overunder estimate

I know you understand.

I understand you

Then what’s the question?the statement.

Either woud strike me thathey werent a worthy opponent

Unworthy?

Yah

     Why waste time or energy with someone who wasnt equal

Unequal?

   Yah

How's that?

Time  Who has time to estimate its On Ya act don think beat ass or ass beat

Inevitable

   he just looked at him

looked like a fart might before dissipating

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Survivor  Eye of the Tiger  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxxfQ7-aMrE

she was a thick gal

she would have been voluptuous if she were sevenNO   eight YES  eight inches taller

looked Hispanic

could have been Islander

had he been in Seattle hed bet Islander

but he was in California

she wore a nondescript sports jersey  39 on its backnumbers legit tack twill not heat transfers

why he knew that he couldnt say

absorbed it somewhere

the more he read the less he knew

she was pickingup a prescription

last one he pickedup was three years ago

let his order stew three days before collecting it so itd be there

three years ago they told him to come back in five hours

America on Drugs

Five hours he asked  emphasis on five

she was crispdidnt lookup

                            That’s what I said.

apparently bedside manners are the Providence of physicians fingerscrossed  hadnt seen one of them in years either

he returned three days later

who knew hed remember now habitual

Bitched

          anything might

clerk asked her name

he didnt listen

                if she was eight inches taller he might have

Birthdate.

Nine Nineteen Nineteenninetynine.

39 made all the sense in the world

59 would be crap

together 3 and 9 are pleasantly round

which unfortunately did not assist her stature

maybe 11

maybe stripes

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Billy Preston  Will It Go Round In Circles  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F_DRNCGjQM