he wanted to go outsideout from under the cueball lightbulb livingroom fixtureout under the sun into the slight saltbreeze off the ocean

               Comon lets go outside  Bring your drink

It’s a bit chilly, isn’t it?

Put on a layer

she looked puzzled

A sweater sweatshirt another tshirt

Ah. Gotcha.

Great

        Ill meet you outsidewell sit with the sun on our backs

Sun sounds good.

Yes

     as she began down the hall he called after her Takin your drink with me

opened the door

sun flashed him

                 Wha No raincoat  in his head he heard Hur hurhur   the sun

who cajoled who was beyond him

Mel chose a poncho

                     he asked as a Zappaishly as he could Is tha a real poncho I mean  Is tha a real Mexican poncho or is a tha a Sears poncho

gently shook her head side to side

                                     What are you talking about?

continued Zappa  Hmmm  No foolin

    What are you talking about?

she had no clue

he handed her her drink

                             Sun feels good huh

Yes.  What were you talking about?

Zappa

        Lines from the Book of Zappa Bibles got nothing on him anhe was probably as voluminous however one can legitimately say theyre His actual Words

Bible really gives you a hard on.

    You give me a hard on

                             Speaking of which  witch

sipping her Dark and Stormy loved she dug dark rum sputteredalmost choked

                                                                                          catching her breath  Don’t do that?

played innocent  which made no sense

                                      Wha

Which witch.

A Dark an Stormy creature

                              Which witch white or other   wise

    Other. Wise. Or otherwise? Never can tell with you.

Keep you on your toes

You do.

I tell people youre a witch

And they believe you.

Its howya tell it if they do or don

An you’re convincing.

Because its me tellin it

Because you.

Yabetcha

                I was thinkin

Ohmy, you have to do that?

he laughed hardily took a good pull on his straight Myers

                                                               I have to

Otherwise I hurt myself not

she sighed

             Will this be a pearl of wisdom

Pearl

       Istha wha I do

   It’s something, whatever you call it.

Mel  Youre so kind to me 

                             So . .

. . Stop.

          You’ll get infatuated . . . intensely . . draw me into . . .    Later?  she asked she laughed

her laugh like a wind chime

                           You tickle me

You tickle me.

                 What were you thinking?

You know how I dislike football commentators

Dislike with extreme prejudice, yes. You’re the first guyHell only guy Ive ever met who mutes them plays music instead.

Awwsweet I was your first

                              Makes me feel like a virgin

had her drink to her lipsdidnt sip  eyed it eyed him

                                                        Really?

Lets pretend

sipped

          swallowed   We’ll pretend. What about the commentators?

I got a spin a take on comments

                                    Possibly Id listen

    What could possibly make you listen?

I was thinking

                   he paused in case she had something more to say  I was thinking I coud tolerate them   if

What?

          If what?

    If  not football   but porn commentators  commenting on the validity of the seduction varied positions agility flexibility  array of     Wha

                                Yaoughta see your expression

I can feel it.

Didn’t see it cummin

Wasn’t a pearl she chuckled   Rather a pearl necklace.

   Yathink

You?

        Oh I know. 

Good idea

    An idea.

1811,  Reggaefriday,  9  8. 24

1205,  Monday,  19  8. 24

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

https://themagickalpath.com/2022/08/07/19-types-of-witchcraft-which-witch-are-you/

Madonna  Feel Like A Virgin  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s__rX_WL100

walking into her friends apartment she was greeted Leave him be. before she could say Hiya. as she let herself in

Leave him be. was directed at her friends boyfriend who was a bit of a pain in the ass to her but who enthralled Tara

shed concede he was goodlooking athletic funny witty 

                                                          shed concede she wished she were to drink from the well first

But, ohwell.

they went to a party met him there

Early bird catches worm

                           thats how Kate consoledconsoles herself

truth be known

she had first crack at him

after they were introduced she was pulled away by friend who was oblivious to her hints 

when Tara was introduced she dug in her heels didnt let anyone pull her away

Tara was better with No than Kate

 Leave him be.

What’s going on?

He’s got that bug up his ass.

Tolkien.

You know him so well.

Hmm. I suppose I do.

                       she was acutely surprised 

whenever they got togetherpretty frequent when he held court he didnt dominate he spoke of wild things like no one else they knew  they looked agog at each other and smile

frankly Tara had said as much

                                  the only thing she had on Kate was her sharing a bed with him

If he only wouldn’t read as much.

                                    Reads somethingsuddenly he’s infused stuffed something . . his brain chemistry screams.

Off an running.

Like a mustang stallion on an open range pursuing a mare.

    That’s graphic.

That’s his. I should have mentioned I was quoting him.

Might conceive you’re the mustang mare.

Thank you.

It’s Tolkien.

He’s spiderspinning it, his, he’s obsessed.

Passionate.

Look at you putting a polite spin on it.

sideglanced

             It’d be awfully nice to be obsessed passionate yeah.

    Yeah. I have brief bouts.

Me too.

But then they halt.

Halt.

       A perfect description.

Like a Naziguard in a World War Two prisoner-of-war encampment.

That.

       That’s perfect. I’m stopped cold in my tracks. 

Me too.

But when it’s hot . .

. . It’s scalding, fire, volcani . .

. . An eruption.

Yes.

      Know what triggered him?

I do. Fresnel lens.

What’s that?

You really want to know?

Joe explained?

You know Joe.

Awright.  Hit me.

   A Fresnel lens replaces the curved surface of a conventional optical lens . .

. . You kiddin’ me?

Tara opened her eyes

                        Please please, don’t interrupt. I’ll lose my train of thought, it’ll pull over into a waystation a sidling and we’ll be stranded, won’t get back on track.

I’m sorry.

           Replaces the curved surface of a conventional optical lens.

Yes.

     Replaces the conventional lens with a series on concentric groovesDON’T! I said groovy.  Tickled him.

These contours act as individual refracting surfaces that bend parallel light rays to a common length. Think lighthouse lamps, have you ever seen one upclose?

Yes. Nantucket. I understand completely.

                                            Joe say where he learned of Fresnel lens.

He couldn’t say.

                  Said, No, but I’m fortunate I can withstand the bombardment.

He is beset.

Beset. Beasty.

                  Got your hands full, grrl.

1313,  Reggaefriday,  16  8. 24

1240,  Sunday,  18  8. 24

Whawe got here  a failure to communicate

    he thought he understood the trafficked concept of Right of Way

two cars converge on an intersection one northsouth other eastwest

                                                                         the car to the right northsouth proceeds first

what he didnt understandevidently was that there was another Right of Way

                                                                                   a persons right to wear blinders

blinkers if one rather

seeing neither right or left

also who neednt come to a full stop at a STOP sign

                                                      but slow an roll into an intersection

assuming their Right of Way

                               which according him

is a Rite of Way

he didnt drive frequently

certainly not without need

he put twentybucks in his gas tank

                                        filled up

once a monthfrequent

this time out

one mile four tenths either direction

twice he submittedsuffered the Rite of Way in each direction

                                                                  each a middleaged women

who wore very black sunglasses  thick blackframes

necks broke

rolled intothrough a STOPped intersection

    he had a premise

since likely  men quit scoping them out years ago

                                                      this was their moment to shine

Ya see me, you see me, you see me NOW!

I do

      I see driedup peaches

WHAT?

Lemme finish lemme finish

                             Bitter as raw almonds Bitter as raw almonds containing traces of prussic prudessic acid hydrocyanic acid  a solution of hydrogen cyanide and water  its organic byproduct  poison cyanide

Havent had a roll in the hay for years

                                        YES  I see you

possibly married newer highend vehiclesthey looked like imperturbable Jacqueline Kennedys sans bouffant sans pillbox hat

    they did irritate him

but more often than not women did

                                     particularly

broke neck women

1330,  day-between-2-Ts,  14  8. 24

1111,  Sunday,  18  8. 24

https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-are-bitter-almonds-1806996

out of the blue   

                  Abattoir

Abattoir.

Yes

What of it?

Cant call it wha it is

                        Gotta to use a euphemism

she laughedabruptly  it fell out into a chuckle

                                                   It is what it is. 

What do you prefer?

I like slaughterhousereally like factoryI like when I go to the market an approach the butcher counter ask for a cut of meat thats not in the refrigerated section say a twoanahaf threeinch thick ribeye tha they tell me they cant help There is what there is. We have only what the factory sends us.

                                                            Can you special order it

I think provide service to ones customer                             

We get what the factory sends us.

Can you special order it asking again because they didnt answer the question an mind you this is a manager  I always go to the top leave the peons alone

I don’t know that I would use peons and meat in the same sentence.

    Yajust did

she rolled her eyes

You know wha Im sayin

I always know what you’re saying. You’re explicit. pinched his cheekshook his head by it for a secondtwo

                                                                                                                  So cute.

he pokerfaced her

                     but it failed  he smiled

I like you can put up with me

Ifya weren’t good in bed it’d have been Hit the Road Jack a long time ago.

My names not Jack

No?

    What day is it?I thought today was Jack’s turn.   I’m sorry.

he grabbed her by the wristsforced her arms behind her backkissed her roughly pulling his face away from hers he kept her tight

she smiled

            What day is it? Which one are you?are you the new man?

she lunged forwardkissed him  split his lip

appropriate

              considering the onset subject

phonaesthetics

                 walkaway Tolkien

  

0824,  Sunday,  18  8. 24

0909,  Sunday

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/21/tender-is-the-flesh-agustina-bazterrica-review

Ray Charles  Hit the Road Jack  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7we2esorg1g

turning on the television MSNBC flickered on screen politickles she thought Of course it was

                                                                                                Did you want to watch this?

You donwanna watch it no

I can watch it.

Can an do are two different things

                                     Find something youd rather watch  Im busy with the Bloody Marys

But if you want to seelisten . .

. . Find something babe Were relaxinchillin

    Did you here that?

No I was talkin with you

Woman just said F A F O, the others on the panel nodded.

                                                             she turnedlooked at him over her armover the back of the couch F A F O.

he nodded absently  was doling horseradish into pint glasses halffilled with icecubes

You know it?

No

Why are you nodding?

Nodding tha I heard you

                           shook Worcestershire over the ice

What?

F A F O

         I wasnt one of the cool kids so no I wasnt privy to code acronyms thas remained unchanged

What do you think it means?

Without context I havent a hope in hell buckwheat

                                                      doled out three large green olives pimiento quickslipped olive juice in each

I’m sorry, I missed the context it was used in. It’s a political show. They’re berating MAGA . .

. . I know tha one . .

. . You’re hilarious.

I may be cooler than I thought

                                poured vodka no measure freshcrushed black peppercorns

You doubling down on hilarious?

If Republicants can why not

Excellent point.

You gonna look it up on your phone

Do you want me to?

Inquiring minds

                  I wannabe groovy

You are.  watched him freestyle tabasco

I’ll look it up.

Thank you Almost ready

                            poured spicy Mr and Mrs T mix

rinsed broke stalks of celery greenleaf at top thicktall green onions stirred the Bloody Marys with them

I think were good

                    grabbed a couple of paper towels sweat  theirs the glass’

    Oh jeez.

Howstha

F A F O. Fuck Around and Find Out.

Clever I like it

                 Ill forget it

I’ll remind you.

Na Zdrowie baby  Bottoms up

they sipped

Not shabby

No. Not at all. Delicious. Think I’ll be bottoms up when we finish.

Oh baby I hope so

Is that the plan?

I can wish

1743, Thursday, 15  8. 24

1816, Saturday,  17  8. 24

 

   he had a habit

                   say that juicy morsel out loud an like the commercial When EF Hutton talks, people listen. theyre on it like flies on shitcant seem to help themselves

Do you mind?

I don’t mind. Continue.

hed disappoint them

he didnt have a salacious habit

his was mundane

                     thought  Whas more mundane than mundane

DULL

Very good

BORING

Good

DREARY

Yes

ANNOYING

It is

BANAL

Fuckyah banal   Banal

                            Thank you

Youre welcome

not only were his shehes heshes Johnny on the spot

                                                        they were freakin polite

his habit was advertisements through the mail unwanted enveloped solicitations bills that included a last page THIS PAGE INTENTIONAL LEFT BLANK

                                                     it isnt

neednt label the obvious

                          tacere plural tacenda (goes without saying)

his habit was collecting those pages keep them on a clipboard an scribblewrite on them when something occurred to himTHINGS always occurred to himWheels on the bus go round an round round an round round an round

                                                                                                                an for tha because he didnt take shorthand in high schoolIDIOT he would have been the only boy in the roomIDIOT FUCKIN IDIOT how didnt he see tha then

                             an for tha tryin to keep up with himself afterwards he often struggled to read his handwritingDAMMIT

                        Whadoes tha say

heshes shehes shrugged You wrote it

You wrote it was ballsy

                         like father like internal cretins

he digressed

when he finally translated the transhated transmalpractised transfuckedup sentences letter by letter word by word memorialised them in fashions of personal letters journals emails textmessages Letters to the Editor hed flip the page for shitsangiggles to see was at home on the other side

sometimes sobering

                     not a week earlier he turned several pages to find he wrote on the backs of an unreferred letters of reference letters of recommendation from managers senior executives he worked with – not for – with

he was not a team player

they he rememberedrecognised all their signatures after much grandstanding worrying wrangling realised exactly what he told them Give me my head stay out of my way let me do my work

the lay of the employment landscape changed while he worked

when the company was bought they who acquired it brought in their own players he was out

not that he was surprisednot when he walked out of four interviews

                                                                        he did endure one

hence the unreferred pages

                             whell looking on the bright side which was not his forte he usually kept to traipsed on the dark side to informprovide others who were blinded by the shinybright klieglight

he finally got some use out of them

some time,  day-between-2-Ts,  14  8. 24

1310,  Reggaefriday,  16  8. 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX7ZEotoFh0

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band  Blinded By the Light  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzk3x3HZbJI

sometimes reality isnt large enough

it gets tiresome

maybe not to others but to him

                                 a draaag

who could give fuck

sowha Elon Musk used illicit drugs

                                     Wall Street  ooooh

hed shoot himself in the head before Wall Street would influence him

                                                                             although  to be fair

hed really have to think hard to comeup with anyone who could

                                                                    figured

if when he was a boy lying on his belly up on his elbows on the threadbare livingroom carpet watching Saturday cartoons all morning on a black and white television set that an uncle gave them that commercials geared specifically to children didnt influence him

whell

        unlikely anything would

he was not a consumerEXCEPT to feed hydrate quaff sip

                                                                  EXCEPT

drugs

now being legalised

                      took the edge off the high  illicit upped the ante

freaked his parents out

they werent square

unenlightened

Why? they asked

Maw Paw

            Sometimes reality isnt large enough

1123,  Reggefriday,  16  8. 24

Shinedown  Monster  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzsCb7ZwlQ0

freeing flies

entering the kitchen he found a white cat whisker on the living room carpet an easy find contrasted with the earthenbrowns an dreads pattern  

squatting he picked it up returned to the studio he just left for a cup of Joe an placed it in a desk drawer inside a white security envelope with others he savedWHY fuck if he knew if he had to guess an it was a guess they seemed good juju anif he had to believe in something antha rhymed with Jujyfruits or Jujubes two of his favourites then he was awright with the world an it likely unknowingly awright with him

                                                                             pay attention one of the exceptional times hell ever refer to himself in third-person  an illeism  ill-ism  certainly is

                                                       Gaia an Joe

sitting in a tree

K I S S I N G

he humours himself

entering the kitchen déjà vu he crossed to the counter where the no-frills Proctor Silex coffee machine sat to the right of a window that looked directly at a neighbours weathered woodplank privacy fence the window was above a pale pink he was confident in his masculinity thirteen gallon plastic garbage bin that begged his attention when first he saw it it was tacky he sported a tacky streak if he hadnt Pop art would not have interested him  

What the hell he thought Lets change it up for this one cup

                                                               helping himself to his choicean array of cups an mugs how the fuck is it he acquired them threedozeneasy although at tha thoughttha accusation he knew the story of each who gave them an why  even casual giftgivers knew his priorityprimacy Irish whiskey medium roast coffeebeans an buffalos eachany an easy thoughtfulthoughtless emergence merger

changing it up he crumbled hardened darkbrown sugar into his mugstayed his hand from the blackstrap molasses it was an awfully good day but not tha good

                                     poured threequarters full

the topquarter contains the coffees oily aroma an before he drank a damnthing he inhaled first before he ate a damnthing he inhaled it before sex he inhaled the woman who graced him

turning to leave he saw three flies buzzingbanging at the window I can see the outside, how come I can't get there? flies dont know glass any more than he knew the age jeune se qua of a healthypile of whaeveranimal or human excrement

he set his coffee on the counter stepped to the window sprung it there was no screen freeing the flies that most likely gravitated to the garbage that they could sensesmell but he couldntAH

                                                                           the fortune of being a feeble human

1013,  Thursday,  15  8. 24

1012,  Reggaefriday,  16  8. 24

Shinedown  A Symptom of Being Human  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6s2j0Ys3d0