late in the afternoon

edibles staunchly kicked in

but he wasnt ever too stoned not to call buddy out

That’s right, they’re my friend.

A high school friend

Yes.

How often you see your friend

We see each other at class reunions.

This friend when you see him you spend most of tha time together

No.

This friend you talk on the phone every other month during the year

Ohno.

You ever talk on the phone with him

No.

Hes an acquaintance

He’s a friend. I call him my friend.

   Pretty liberal   So

                       Gal you see on occasion calls you her friend

I’m more than that to her. I’m a very good friend.

Ive never heard her call you a very good friend

                                                  Friend

That would be incorrect.

   So

         Im gathering friendship is a type of spectrum to you Theres friends you have at reunions very good friends

Can you name me others

What’s your point?

Not mine  Yours

Ive named one  Friend

                         Whacha got

he sniffed

            A very good friend.

Friend in quotation marks.

So so friend

Sure.

Favorite friend.

Special friend.

Friend-with-benefits   Not tha you enjoy

Ya got to be snide?

Truths snide

More

I’m sure if I gave it more thought I could name severa . .

. . Friend  I call every No  I havent ever called him

                                                        Nuts spectrum man

Lemme show you mine

                         While I was writing yours down so I didnt forget I made up one

I’m curious to see.

he flipped the clipboard round so he could read it

FRIEND / NOT FRIEND

1806,  Monday,  24  6. 24

1205,  day-between-2-Ts,  26  6. 24

the squawk overhead wasnt a flying monkey

No, that was a blackheaded grosbeak. They are among very few birds that can eat Monarch butterflies, which are toxic to other birds.

I didnt know tha

superior

          Now you do.

Thanks

If you’re writing that down beak is E A not E E.

Why woud I write E E

Beek. It’s a word, I believe.

Im all ears

eagerly hand going to his iPhone

                                   Should I look it up to confirm?

Sure

Johnny-on-the-spot almost fumbled the phone

Im assuming archaic

Beek. Bask. To warm in the sunshine or before a fireplace, stove, or bonfire.

                                                                                It is. Used only early Sixteenth Century.

Didnt make it huh

                     Deed

Deed?                                                                    

Dead  Died  Two Es

                        Recall howwhy you knew it 

I don’t. Read it somewhere.

Me Id rather bask than beek ask to eek

    What are you talking about?

Im playing Asking

                     Whas the asking price going rate

Woudnt ya rather be a threehunred dollar slave to a onehunred dollar one  Standing on the selling block anxiously motioning to gathered buyers hands cuppedpalms out wagging fingers as one inspiringincentivising the notion theyre worth plenty more Bring it up bring up the price  bring it on  Onanup

What are you talking about?

Three times the slave

                       Twelveyear Redbreast sixtybucks Twentyoneyear nearly threehunred five times greater not tha I coud tell the difference not by look not by blind taste testBUT

                                                                 My ass was being sold Id want it sold for more than the going rate more the slave prior to me an definitely more the one behind me I can see them

Commodity

Perceived value 

You paid three hunred for ‘im?

I did.

Must be a helluva slave.

He is.

Wellhell, he fathers, can I buy his boy?

I’d consider the boy, girlie, keepin ‘er to myself.

Warm myself before her

Bask in her presence

   Youd beek

he was dumbfounded

Youd beek

1551,  Monday,  24  6. 24

1116, day-between-2-Ts,  26  6. 24

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds  Bring It On   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92xDcGuk1M

Wha time ya got  please

Threethirtyseven.

                   Let’s canwe . can we call it threethirtyeight? I’m not a fan of seven, too angular, sharp.

Fishing hooks spearhead harpoon

Seeyeah yes, seven isn’t attractive.

Eight

Eight.  We’ll call it threethirtyeight.

I can roll with tha

                          Soah    Woudya eat an eight

perplexed creptcross his features  wha a puss

Eat an eight

             Laplick gnawnibble gobble  chew    Ate

through the persisting veil

                            You mean a lemniscate?

If I meant tha I woud have said tha no

                                           A roundbottom eight  I woud

persisting

           You would?

Arya kiddin medefinitely

                         

persisting

           What are you talking about?

I aint talkinbout numbers an symbols ya thick

                                                  An eight eat an eight

if his perplexed miasma grew any denser  FUCK

Youre not in the game

No.

     I guess I’m not.

a bird squawked overhead

                             Tell me thawas a flying monkey to complete this unreality

looked at him

              looked like his head had turned into a dandelion puffball

  fitting

toss in a White Rabbit Alice hot on his heels

theyd be right at home

1538 actually1537,  Monday,  24  6. 24

0928,  day-between-2-Ts,  26  6. 24

hes heard braying asses before but few can compete with either Jesse Watters or Greg Gutfeld

hell use Gutfelds mouth for his purposes

13June 2024  on FOX

                         its not News therefore he calls it FOX propaganda disinformation misinformation is not News

on FOX  The Five

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hKVpBziNo4

16:45 minute-mark Gutfeld spews

                                     “Let’s say by some weird, miraculous chance we don’t see coming, given Trump’s ahead, given a 66% chance of winning, looks like he’s gonna get the Electoral Count, and Joe still wins (are they really on first name basis – thad be miraculous), well then what do you do after you win? How do you convince anyone that’s real? Have they even thought of that? Like even the Dems behind the scenes better hope he doesn’t win because no one is going to believe it.”

Gutfeld Watters Republicans MAGA schlemiels they really ought to revisit History shut their pieholes

updated 8Nov 2016 Clinton has 45.7% chance of winning  Trump 41.8%

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/national-polls/

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/if-clinton-had-won/

“How do you convince anyone that’s real?”

Trumps victory wasnt challenged despite him crying the 2016 Election was fixed

later claimed 2020 was fixed

is claiming to 2024 election will be fixed

    the fix?

              tempt him he knew the fix

howbout someone arrange a hot shot for former

                                                    a vitamin boost

would he be sorry

lets say this

              eachanevery morning he wakes resolutely checks the newsfeed on his iPhone hoping to read former

the entertainer  has croaked                     

would express no sympathies

1718,  2sday,  25  6. 24

Neil Young  Needle and the Damage Done  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYY87VEQtRM

You know Silver honey.

I do  However Manuka honey was recommended . .

. . There’s that in silver honey. 

Yes

     Manuka  Tea tree   Melaleuca

Antibacterial antioxidant anti-inflammatory

Who knew

   Who told you?

Same day My daughter my witchy girlfriend

So, a coincidence.

No such thing

There is.

For you an youre welcome Knock yourself out

Everybody accepts coincidences.

   Everybody

                 But meaah  incorrect  Before the Big Bang author Laura Mersini-Houghton  We agree

She doesn’t believe in coincidences?

No

    You have the book youll read it  Gird your loins

Gird.  Who says that?

In my wheelhouse

                    The anti-inflammatory aspect of Manuka has provento this point beneficial  Learned long ago tha inflammation is my nemesishas its way with me Skeletally Im fucked As a kid when my family assumed the lotus position staggered around the livingroom on their knees  my legs don work like tha

At the time I was embarrassed but as Dirty Harry said A mans got to know his limitations

I embrace mine Im grateful Harry appeared when he did

Grateful. A movie.

You an ingrate

                 Film books art authors painters philosophers historians scientists politics sport heroes  Knowledge can find its way like water if not dammed  Path of least resistance  Ive been wrought pounded split cracked crosshatchedlittered with capillaries

You

I like to think I am.

   Believings better than thinking

Discount wishful thinking

      

1840,  Sunday,  23  6. 24

1336,  2sday,  25  6. 24

Dirty Harry  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2JnCXvm_Qc

MAGAINO

VP vice president

                 Trojan horse a ringer 

take a few steps backstep away

someone compliant

                      a mollifier

required MAGAdeviant

                        maybe   socalled RINO  Republican in name only   a MAGAINO

sooooooo . . . .

                concedesagrees to be formers VP  formers mental acuity slips in The White House

VP utilises The 25th Amendment  Cabinet votes with him  removes former

                                                                                Viola

gamedgains the Presidency without spending a dollar without campaigning

then turns out theyre a vivacious true Republican

                                                     puts the Party back in Republican theres only the Democratic Party now

restores meaningful debate policy discussions compromise to the Republic

kills the cult of Celebrity

maims the cult of Power

   he was prone to dreaming

                                maybe this scenario is nothing more than dreamscape

he was also prone

                      Ifya cant take a joke – fuckya

1538,  Monday,  24  6. 24

1223,  2sday,  25  6. 24

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-vice-president-jd-vance-rcna158641?cid=eml_mda_20240625&user_email=e4c91d00eead6d858374885584701152a02c6d873bb23bf387b4583a289e5951

another v.

             versus

miraculous

             thats what he called it  but he witnessed miraculous hes witnessed ghosts  hes seen more than buddy will ever see

on the other hand

                    buddy

No.  Improbable.

miraculous v. improbable

Awright buddy

                 Define improbable

You know what it means.

I want to know wha it means to you

   Really?

Really

he cleared his throat Improbable like he was back in elementary school  Improbable . .

. .If youd like to spell first ya can

Wanna back off?

Improbable.

             Not miraculou . .

. . Horseshit  Stick to your definition

That’s how I’d define it.

Ya got your everpresent damn iPhone  Look it up

You look it up.

My phones at home

                     I aint slave to it it doesnt tell me wha to do   Definition please

he took it from his pocket

                            I keep mine with me in case I’m needed.

Good for you

               Somebody needs me they can waittheir text can wait

Improbable.

             Defined as an adjective.

Not likely to be true or to happen.

    An

Unexpected and apparently inauthentic.

                                            From Latin improbabilis . . hard to prove.

Id agree with unexpected Im fond of unexpected

Miraculous

             Phones in your hand

What does it mean to you?

Gimme the dictionarys definition anthen Ill define what I know to be miraculous

You know to be miraculous.

I aint dead

             Definition

Also adjective.

                 The first . occurring through divine or supernatural interventio . .

. . Not Excuse me  Continue

Are you trying to irk me?

No

    Continue

Through divine or supernatural intervention.

                                                Or manifesting such power.

Second

Highly improbablesee . . highly improbable and extraordinary and bringing very welcome consequenc . .

. . Like not being dead

                          Miraculous  Extraordinary

Two occurrences come to mind

When I killed the blueilluminated god the twohunredpound buck

                                                                    You saw the car  Wondered how I wasnt dead

At sea Boat tailended against a net cable it cameup over the side like an iron rubberband heard it grate spun outstretched a tire iron in front of me a nano before the cable slammed into metossed me forty feet across to the starboard gunnel

Was concussed

Badly bruised sternum

Purple bruiseline from the tire iron  my supersternal notch to my pubic symphysis pelvis bone

Pubic symphysis. Why do you know that?

I read I didnt recovercoudnt manage the pain for twothree days A day before my accident on another boat a hand got cut in half

Boat kept his halves in the freezer till port

Miraculous Im alive

                     Got cat lives

1739,  Thursday – Summer solstice,  20  6. 24

1258,  Monday,  24  6. 24

City of Angels – Pear  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHckzPJuPKw

confidential

Thas bullshit

It’s not.

Says someone without any skin in the game

                                               I was working that puzzle you didnt fit two pieces together

It’s a difficult puzzle.

You havent the eyebut thas neither here nor there

                                                      Why

We were gonna have dinner.

Wha time

           After your pool party you barbecue

I did. It was Sevenish.

It was a pleasant evening

It was . . sun low in the westjust over the hills.

Why didnt you eat outside at the picnic table

The girls would have had to bring out the sides.

Copious sides

   What do you mean?

You understand copiousmany many plates ya ate off paper

                                                               Wha sides

Potato salad. Corn on the cob. Tossed salad.

                                                    Condiments.

There were four of you Eight hands

What’s your point?

Plenty of hands for sides Could have eaten outside

We didn’t want to eat outside.

Fair

     So instead on one half of a huge dining table large items on one side  the girls decided to pickup the other half with a sevenhunredfifty piece puzzlea good onehunred pieces fitted together

Because I didnt showup to your soiree because I had a telephone call with my daughter

They picked it up, I didn’t.

They ask you

They didn’t.

Why didnt they Fuckin obvious I was working the puzzle

                                                             Wasnt it   Obvious

They picked it up before I knew they had.

Your house They should have asked

                                          One would think

Water under the bridge.

Yaknow wha one might also think

No.

Fuckin passiveaggressive

    No.

            I don’t think so.

Pickup stacked books some odd mail calendar pen paperwork

                                                                  Or

Pushround scattered pieces various assembled pieces into a triangleshaped box an pickup those tha fell on the floor

When I build it if theres missing pieces

                                           Hell to pay

Passiveaggressive

I don’t know what to say . . I’m sorr . .

. . If you were youd apologise but it isnt your apology to make or your doin

That was flagrantly passive aggressive

                                           Im sure one will hear   If I donsay

What do you mean by that?

Itll killya

             This conversation is confidential

1500ish,  Thursday – Summer Solstice,  20  6. 24

1134,  Monday,  24  6. 24

thall learn him

                 he tried to resist flipping through the book Cutting-up in the Kitchen Butcher’s Guide before going to bed

was prettymuch review for him

                                  did two summers in Missoula Montana killing slaughtering butchering beef veal pigs rabbits chickens

he went to bed

they who they were he had no idea

                                       they left him a carcass to butcher left it outdoors on a stout woodblock table cheesecloth laid over it to keep off insects

 

undraping it

               it was an undetermined  thorax

hed never seen anything like it

there were bones

unsymmetric

                if he had to sayguess  what       a boned mollusc   oyster

he could feel them? under the skinnedflesh  purplyred thin yellow brokenskeins

he draped the cheesecloth over it again

                                          because that was the way he found it

despite no insectsflies coming around

went back into the house

the note said theyd return that afternoon for the cuts

                                                        

he figured hed sit tight for them to come and they could tell him what cuts they were expecting from an anatomy he didnt recognise

he wasnt anxious

a little miffed

                it insisted he wasnt a butcher

they could instruct him

                         or they could take a hike with the substantial body

if he hadnt made coffee sat with a cup to read the paper do the crossword play Jumble hed believe he was still asleep dreaming

0650,  Monday,  24  6. 24

1012,  Monday

NBCs Dasha Burns asked

                            “Are you worried about going to jail, Mr. President?”

“I’m not worried at all, you know what? Nothing bothers me, nothing bothers me. We have a corrupt group of people. And you know what? And it’s really working out the other way. We just got the highest poll numbers we ever had. You know what? They cheat so much ten points isn’t enough, because if we don’t win, our country is finished, I’m telling you.”

07:10 minute-mark (highlight address & submit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbx-8XVeM-E

and this beaut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdigIl-g9U about President Biden being “jacked up” for the debate Thursday

           former conveniently forgets that White House physician Ronny Jackson oversaw speed doled out to administration staff and their families https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/07/ronny-jackson-white-house-navy-demoted/ virtually operated a “grab & go” clinic https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/ronny-jackson-medical-unit-ambien/index.html

   but he remembers

                        he remembers Elton Johns “. . . high as a kite by then . . .”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy709iNG6i8

he also remembers MAD magazine Alfred E. Neumans retort “What, Me Worry?”

good to have a memory

1301,  Sunday,  23  6. 24

0912,  Monday,  24  6. 24

Black Sheep  This or That  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ6wGtqKuIw