Oboy Mama said thered be days like this

                                                -oids coming on  oodles an oodles of -oids

which tickled himmade him laugh

                                    he was easily tickled nonsensical humour enthralled him

others oblivious

                   not so much

misunderstood his braying

                              but he wouldnt let ignorance fussbuttery spoil his fun

 hedbeen

a hapless haploidsperm hurtlingheadlong which collidedpenetrated an ovoid haploidovum

said -oiding

            unavoidable

oid shaped

oddshaped

misshaped

humanbein

mongoloid

           many believe dated not where he grewup still thriving delivered with a crack across the back of the head

                                                                                                                               tard too

though queer

               it was an Irish neighbourhood he wasnt their nationality what have you the most prone susceptible nationality

according to recent statistics

                               and within the United States the extra copy trisomy chromosome 21 Mosaic translocation Down syndrome he didnt have to be crass afflicts sixtyseven percent non-Hispanic and White sixteen percent Hispanic thirteen percent non-Hispanic and Black three percent Asian or Pacific Islanders one percent American Indian First People

-oids

       no avoiding

brain organoid or brainoid

                             “is a miniaturised simplified version of an organ produced in vitro in the dimensions that mimics the key functional structural biological complexity of that organ”

                                                                           “. . . the fields of biomaterials science and tissue engineering have shown great promise in creating bioartificial tissues and organs which isnt to say the Real McCoy for use in a variety of regenerative medicine applications.”

   he opened a can of wigglyworms  

3PM,  Sunday,  10  3. 24

1001,  Thursday,  21  3. 24

Shirelles  Mama Said  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L842mz-tNBQ

Downs https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/downsyndrome.html

Will blow your mind  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6680880/

I like the way he writes  Pithy

Pithy? That’s quite a compliment.

For crime fiction noir  Irish   More than I imagined

Who’s this?

Bruen  Ken Bruen

                     Not only pithy but apercu liberally scattered throughout

What?

Apercu

You said, I asked what? A learning moment would ya?

I apologisedidnt mean to assume   Youre well read

Thank you, but you tend to hammer down are more granular than I am, or more so than my attention is willing to withstand.

Thas a curious  willin to withstand

It’s the truth.

                  Apercu.

Enunciated well

Thank you.

Means comments brief references  Making illuminating entertaining points

                                                                                An reading its occurred to me many of his references are factual not madeup not fiction Unique in crime writing to my experiencealbeit  my limited experience

But you read fiction, as you’ve said, like candy, to treat to yourself.

Yes I love my nonfiction the science physics history politics psychology philosophy

                                                                                        But then I need to change it up

How many books in ten are fiction?

They tend to be scifi though recently crime  Bruens draggin me back in  When I was younger I read Chandler Hammet Himes Highsmith McCoy Cain Fearing recent Mosley Ellroy Winslow caught his eyes wandering not granular I coud go on

You didn’t answer my question.

No I didnt Was getting lostmusing of the great stories Ive read

                                                                  Perhaps   Obsessing Yare not one to interfere in ones obsessions arya

Answer my question an Ill let ya return.

Motherfucker May I

You may.

           laughed

Not ten percent for months and months then at a sudden threefour

                                                                       You can do the math

Cute.

Apercu

Amen brother.

evening,  day-between-2-Ts,  13  3. 24

1258,  day-between-2-Ts,  20  3. 24

Ever have . . .

Im listening

I’m trying to remember what it’s calledescaping me . . right now.

Thas unlike you babe

Isn’t it though?

Hint

      Like . . . profound.

Thas heady  Not our usual trek

No. It’s not.

              There’s another word that’s escaping me.

Pivotal.

Thas a good word but by the expression on your face not the word youre searching for

A pivotal . . . moment.

This is like an audiooral crossword

                                      A pivotal moment

Like that, yes.

   An epiphany . .

. . YES. Exactly.

Love your enthusiasm

Queer I couldn’t think of it. Shame on me. Thank you.

Youre welcome happy to help

                                     Whawas your epiphany if I can ask

Jeez.  Now I’m sidetracked.

Want me to backup the train see if we can find the siding

Train?

Train of thought

Ah.   Clever.

               No.

An epiphany a startling bright light Abombbright  etching shadows onto concrete  rocks

That’s a devastating appraisal of an epiphany.

Thas how they occur to me

                             But then as screwy as my mind works one coud argue I had it comin

You’ll have to admit you are curious.

As long as I made you curious  Im good

she leaned over kissed his temple

                                     You smell good too.

Thank you

               Lost your epiphany

I believe I have it’ll come to me.

Then youll share

I’ll share. It had something to do with you anyways.

Now  now Im curious

As I’ve said.

             she laughed  sighed

Itll come to you

It will.

he leaned back head back

                             Lookup

she didnt hesitant

Is tha Gods brains I see scattered on the clouds

sun was settingthrowing reds oranges yellows ambers purpling

Like he shot himself in the headcommitted suicide

   Now.

          I’m curious.

0005,  Reggaefriday,  15  3. 24

1209,  day-between-2-Ts,  20  3. 24

Korantemaa  By the time you’ve finished your coffee  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mj5JrBxwqA

I believe one must be assertive a preexisting condition  before they can effectively confront someone

                                                                                                            Which is why youre lousy at it

   Lousy?

Yah frankly both  Youre neither assertive nor confrontational they do not exist in your makeup blame your folks

My folks? What’s that supposed to mean?

Wha woudya suppose it to mean

You brought it up, tell me.

Silverspoon baby you were born with a silverspoon in your mouthbefore ya take affront understand many are  youre one of hunreds of thousands if not millions an millions spare the rod spoil the child aint necessarily in relation to punishment

   So . . . you’re saying I was spoile . .

. . Yah Are you tryin to insist you werent

                                                  Don  go  there

I enjoyed . . certain benefits.

You certainly did

                   Ive related how I grew up youve shared your upbringing How opposed are we

Opposed?

           You’re not suggesting you’re an opponent?

No

What then?

Think in terms of black white hot cold spicy bland on off

Diametrically. he muttered

Wha

I said diametrically.

Better

       Opposite extremes polar opposites  Agree

Yes yes, I’d agree. 

                     Diametrically opposed.

Getting warmer

   Warmer?

              What's hotter?

Ill tellya

          Were diabolically opposed

Shocking huh

               laughed

he didnt know what to say

1645,  Thursday,  14  3. 24

1120,  day-between-2-Ts,  20  3. 24

Beatles  Hello, Goodbye  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2C3f0Atcoo

one itch he couldnt tolerateneeded to scratchviciously

                                                          Tolkien

he managed to read The Hobbit but nothing could compel him to go furthur down that Hobbithole nyuk nyuk nyck maybe The Three Stooges

Tolkien

cellar door the most beautiful word in the English language

                                                              Please

the phonaesthetic itch that presents is to keep his ears open eyes peeled find better candidates – not that any single word would be the most beautiful whos the most beautiful woman in the world – but he preferred options and steadfastly pursues them

   smell smoke

                 a snatch of dialogue from the Irish monster film Grabbers

arrested him

beside him his trusty clipboard red mediumpoint Bic pen

                                                             scribbled

happenstance no coincidence 

he was alert wired

                        itchy

2043,  Sunday – St Paddys Day,  17  3. 24

1145,  2sday,  19  3. 24

Grabbers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC4GlNAD5ZA

Saint Paddys Day

                   partied too hardy Guinness Redbreast

since Guinness is so rich he ampedup explored copious whiskey beginning with three fingers of Twentyone Year Old then unknown fingers of Twelve

recovering Monday it brightblue penetratingly sunlit creased  in a mindful stupor

                                                                                          Things He No Longer Does 

a listNAH

STOP

       inevitably it would become a list  verbage tossed away

   the list

he no longer ate breakfast misses steelcut oatmeal multigrain waffles blueberry pancakes CheeriosGrapenuts with Whole Milk

             no longer ate lunch crunchy peanutbutter honey on wheat ham on rye sardines onions on pumpernickel

only ate dinner

                not as radical as it sounds

maybe when he first began

but been doing it since Ninetynine   Last Century

practise makes if not perfect

                               well practised

he didnt think of food

thought fuelthought expenditure

                                   if the tank isnt substantially calorically ticked down

no reason in Hell to dump in an abundance of calories

he crapped once a day

an event that pleased him

nutrition ought to exit  pleasurably   as it entered

   revealed

               he scratched his threeweek beard trim it down nextweek he was mindfull thoughtfull of the time he had on his hands interrupted only by three long weekly telephone calls interrupted once a weekten days fivesix hours by a cohort  was buoyant on long daily walkreads

   YAH

          he lavishes himself generously

   

1155,  Monday,  18  3. 24

1038,  2sday,  19  3. 24

Rodrigo Rodriquez  Come Back  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZaqwzgwqU

Bibi Netanyahu whines that Senator Schumers remarks were “totally inappropriate”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD5arHI-T8I

   ah  but history has a way of repeating

                                             he may have conveniently forgotten when he put his thumbs on the scales at the behest of House Speaker Boehner 18 May 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S6ZnsRhWHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GakQIHd-rFM

two months earlier Bibi had refused to consider an Israeli-Palestinian two states solution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAx8XxKDNKA

hes a shyster a wannabe autocrat like the United States former president if one can call anything he did presidential

if ones okay with former denying any responsibility for deaths of 1,217,703 Americans  this evening  by Trumpvirus

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

2239,  Monday,  18  3. 24

Funkadelics  Magagot Brain  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xby5467EbdU

friend usually set his place with a side of ire

                                               brought it out of him

last evenings helping

                        virtual

                               v.

                                  dreaming

adamantly refused to accept that they werent the same

he disagreed strongly

they were texting good thing

   began with a simple Mexican restaurant recommendation

he replied  :  :  Thas a first

  :  :  What? No recs or negative ones?

  :  :  HA  Who would?

Im a proper ghost

  :  :  The fine people you encounter on the street maybe.

  :  :  Don’t encounter except to stroll on by without taking my eye off the words I’m reading

I have better things to do than people

  :  :  Unless the female species followed by three emojis  womens faces  separate hairdos

  :  :  Wouldn’t notice – I’m walking I’m reading – You’re funny. Get Real

I’m involved referencing he was dating

  :  :  Books over blossoms … I don’t believe that.

  :  :  Blossoms?  What imaginary women are you thinking of?

  :  :  BOSOMS … spell ck.

  :  :  Still – no bosoms – Really?

  :  :  In our dream phase unfortunately.

  :  :  Better there than nowhere, bro disliked phase but didn’t make a thing of it

  :  :  Agree … virtual over oBliViOn every time … Butt a healthy JOLT of real flesh would be a treat.

  :  :  didn’t agree with flesh but let it slide too Please. Dreaming is organic, psychic, not virtual shit

Healthy JOLTs are behind us

Reason to have developed a good long memory which his friend hadnt

  :  :  Virtual as opposed to physical …

  :  :  Virtual is computer-generated, virtual reality. Interfacing

Which isn’t the product of organic dreaming

  :  :  Look up virtual …  Like most words it has several definitions.

  :  :  Virtual – in my world – has only one. Prevaricate, slide, as you wish

  :  :  In your world probably …  For others maybe not … going off as he was prone  speaking for the world Don’t confuse a disagreement w/ prevarication …  Words matter as you should know …

  :  :  Slide

friend doesnt dream like he does cant lucid dream

                                                     cant ply virtual to it when its as organic to him as breath

   point out a mans ignorance he shouldnt get butthurt

2155,  Sunday,  17  3. 24

338preferred,  Monday,  18  3. 24

former HANG MIKE PENCE will not endorse the former president

SCREW THA

              the white Christian ought to say tha hes NOT VOTING for the twice House-impeached president the vile insurrectionist the adjudicated rapist the fraud selftouted billionaire who cannot meet a $464M bond (growing $114,000 a day) to appeal the four times indicted the 88 felony counts

                                                                             orange Jesus

when former Vice-President Pence takes those stark accurate talking points out on the road

                                                                                                 then

hell give him credit 

     

1757,  Monday,  18  3. 24

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/17/donald-trump-endorsement-mike-pence-jan-6

bond  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68600093

interest  https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/letitia-james-donald-trump-fine-b2502007.html

https://lithub.com/for-the-love-of-orange-jesus-liz-cheneys-new-book-calls-out-gop-trumpers/

BLOODBATH

                    bloodbath

   he didnt know whatha meant to others

                                             but he had a pretty good fuckin idea

reminded him of his childhood buddy

So I gotta tell ya.

Youre soundin damn earnest

I am. I am.

              I think you’ll agree with me.

We got a lot of years together You know Ill not holdback

No. Not you.  Friendship is unconditional.

Just like love

they chuckled

I love ya man.

I love you too 

               Whas up

Yeah. When I wake mornings an check my newsfeed I’m repeatedly disappointed, repeatedly discouragedFUCK.

   You expectin something

Prayin for something.

Ya don pra . .

. . I do for this.

Fuck Cool   Tell me

I check my newsfeed. Fuckin orange didn’t die overnight.

                                                              Who needs coffee after.

1008,  Sunday – St Paddys Day,  17  3. 24

424preferred,  Sunday – St Paddys Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7RdAufkLkk

Black Sabbath  Fairies Wear Boots  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXqMkqeFQwA

 

   Askya something

                     he rarely asked anyoneanything

Whasumptin?

Just  Ask

   “Verily, I cannot promise an answer truth, but I’ll try for conviction.”

what can you do with an answer like that

where truth and conviction are farflung

                                           or were they cuddlers  different faces on the same coin

no matter

he liked the answer

   Whadafuck am I to do with that?

Convict

after1345,  Sunday,  25  2. 24

1551,  Sunday – St Paddys Day,  17  3. 24

Ken Bruen  The Killing of the Tinkers

   . . . Nah

              . . . Nah if I was smart

If . . I was . . .

                  Maybe I woudnt have bit

Aw Thawoud have been difficult

                                      Cocks drive a hard bargain

he laughed

              Whos writing your material

We pay you heed

                    She was she  was   a vision

She was wasnt she

they nodded in unison

Thought Id have scared her off

Ohhorseshit  she wasnt going anywhere

                                             She admitted she was adamant

She was

Yes Donbe a pecker about it  Yaknew exactly wha you were doin

Ah  But I didnt know where itd lead

Thas why we live life

                      Think Ill go this way while the rest of the tribe streams off in a separate in another direction

   Yah

          Correct

Became attached after tha torrid night whippinchurnin the underlit bluelit water

Please

   Pleased

Climactic

Was

Understand You asked after her

                                     She was on her anonymous wayseemed content with a fling

Fling  Ya think

Think

       You arrested her

   I did

Therefore Whacame afterwards was your doin

Yes

Yes

From a skinnydip an fuck to marriage

                                         Happily married

Yes

  Aye  Id never tradeaway

We woudnt either

                      Majority of the time  wonderful

he nodded absently  Majority

last four years were Hell on Earth

he tried to take her backremind her of wha went before

                                                            she woudnt have it

she was lookin into a black maw

suicide only way out 

                         I don’t want to be here.

he thought she meant the hospital

   she meant Life

1018,  Thursday – Leap Day,  29  2. 24

323preferred,  Sunday – St. Paddys Day,  17  3. 24

Leonard Cohen  So long, Marianne  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XzAjfwQtvM