Friday Frida

was pretty sure her name was Frida

                                       but her nametag reclined on her left breast

it wasnt until she leaned forwardher scoopneck top scoopedLORDD that he he wouldnt be a man if he didnt gander Mens Rules and ByLaws specific  strict  he had to glimpse if there was in the extreme a possibility that a glimpse would be tendered

    tendered

disagreed with the verbage

                              fatty chance

Frida

she looked upsmiled didnt straighten her spine wouldnt complain as she keyboarded his account number into the computer

           Yes.

Family namesake or Frida

smile widened

                Frida.

Ahhad my fingers crossed

                             Youre the first flesh an blood Frida Ive ever met an Ive been aware of her her art since I was a teenager  Ive been in a lot of places where one woud think I shoud have stood an awfully good chance of meeting a Frida

Now you have.

I can die a happy man

her smile broke into musical laughter

                                          This may kill you. I’ve been to Casa Azul, Mexico City . .

. . Yes . .

. . I’m returning in November . .

. . Take me stuff me in your suitcase

continuing to laughed

                       Do you have a passport?

Wont need it Ill be stashed in your luggage  Sssh  Clandestine

                                                                       Or perhaps  clandestiny

Antheres always tha moment when one is faced with an iffy decision  thinks Whawoud Frida do You understand youve now compounded things

Ohmy . .

. . Youre a peach

                   I appreciate you takin the joshin

Joshing? What that? I don’t know it.

An I dig you can admit when you don know

                                                Kidding jokin ribbin teasing

Are you a teaser?

Im afraid Im guilt

                    But likely we woudnt be at this juncture if you hadnt been Frida   A Dolores

My mother’s name is Dolores.

tad crestfallen Youre kidding

    I am

his turn to laugh deeply

                          Sppose it takes a kidder to know one

Or a tease to know one.

Tha

     I coud get my headround tha

she glanced at the clock Within a stone’s throw of my quitting time. You should have me for a drink.

Shoud have me

                   Thas loaded

Isn’t it?

         Intrepid?

Does the beat of a butterflys wings affectfelt on the other side of the world

    I think so.

We can put it to a test

We can.

Up the street Lilas Cantina   Outdoor seating

I know Lilas. Twenty minutes.

Im lookin forward to it

I know Lila.

You do

         Are we to be chaperoned

Do I need to be?

I was thinkin of me weve just met

                                     You picked me up

handing him his cash deposit receipt

                                        No no.  I beat you . butterfly . . to the punch.

True?

Theres tha there is tha

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1359,  Reggaefriday,  30  8. 24

hes always thrilled by wordshow words triggered other words

                                                                    his psychologist  not so muchdont even get her going when they delved into Rorschach inkblots   Really?I mean . . really?

Soot.

Fuligin

What?what’s that? I’m unfamiliar with the word.

F U L  I G  I N

                 Lampblack darker than black

Thank you. Didn’t how to spell it, or know it.

Kinda coolhuh

Cool.

Frigid

No.

     I was referring to your comment not giving you a word.

I know tha We can play

We’re working.

I mix it up Work an play

Don’t. Please. We’re here for a purpose.

Only here because Court required it

                                       The prosecutor ought to be here She possibly has a problem beside the bug up her ass

It wasn’t your place to challenge her.

My defence wasnt

                    She was having her way with him

When Court gavels you to quiet, or face contempt.

Didnt have contempt for Court for the prosecutor  an her twitchy lengthy unlubricated multilegged  bugger

Please. looked either peeved or exhausted  Can we continue?

did his best Bugsy Bunny Whassup Doc couldnt help himself thought Be a duck let the water roll off your back youll feel better thought how attractive she was when she wore her clinical large blackrimmed glasses fuligin foolinround  Care to doc  Inappropriate did his best Curly Three Stooges

                                                   Soitenly

she looked at him over the top of her glasses

                                                We’ll continue.

Cavalry.

One of two

sighed

        One of two. They occurred to you at the same time?

Simultaneously elbowed each other coming in

One word.

Tellem tha

             Yaoughta hear me out might be or not  important in poor taste occurred to him when he said important word association

   Very well.

You can choose

Choose?   What am I choosing?

Which to record Enter

Ah.

     Being helpful?or being helpful.

You choose

             Either cataphract C A T A P H R A C T early form of an armoured heavy cavalry or Jesus  misspelling occurred  cavalry C A V A L R Y  C A L V A R Y  slipsliding letters  J E S U S  Or  G O L G O T H A where he was crucified according to the four highlysuspicious Gospels  Matthew Mark Luke John

                                                                                        sang If I had a hammer Id hammer in the morning Id hamme . . . saw her expressed ceased

                                                             Gospel of Peter Paul Mary

Are you serious?

Word association I cant help it youre prompting me

                                                        Or one coud say provoking me

he put an indexfinger to his temple

                                      I cant helpaint apologising how it works inside there Its involuntary like breathing

Frenetic P H R E N E T I C  P H R E N O L O G I C A L  L O G I C A L 

                                                                           E H

More doc

   Let’s take a break.

Leg

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mental lexicon  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9905442/

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

Soitenly  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9AuTriTmro

Peter, Paul and Mary  If I Had A Hammer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0hsIdJHsuQ

https://www.britannica.com/topic/phrenology

    cacogens

             the word attracted him as piss repulsed him

words had their way with him

                                 Please yaoughta buy me a drink first Ya know Ill put out

Thats the way thats the way thats the way I like it ahha ahha thats the way . . .

he looked it up

Gene Wolfe The Book of the New Sun was cited read the definition

                                                                        “. . . broad categorical name for beings descended from humans that left Earth long ago and subsequent generations living in space.”

obviously scifidefined

    hed argue  Not necessarily
now if only there were someone around he could argue with Mariachis shehes heshes were on holiday

                                                                                                             had they been around theyd have a ball

desperate times call for desperate measures

tall hallway mirror

set a ladderback diningroom chair before it

standing behind it he fixed his eyes on his mirroreyes

                                                         paused

needed a drink

                Twelve oclock somewhere

“. . . had an Old Fashioned prior to dinner . . . tasty, Elijah Craig with one big round icecube enjoyed the concept of a round cube . . . bitters, simple syrup.” 

                                         text from a friend yesterday evening

curious he didnt mention fruit cherry orange slice zest hoped fine sugar was muddled

he knew mixed drinks but liked spirits straight here Mariachi might venture Like your women which wouldnt be true

returned to the chair with a frosted Say When Hazel Atlas shotglass filled to four ounces

sat

     after a sip  eyes to mirroreyes   Where were we

playing hardball eyes glared

Think I forgot

took another sip

    Space Subsequent generations living in space

Outer space is assumed

We live in space

eyes wasnt going to nod so he did

this was a dismal idea

Beings descended from humans that left Earth long ago

nodded again

I we pointing at eyes were descendants our ancestors unknown to us their Grandmother arrived in America from Poland in 1905 and the small town she was from the church where genealogical records were kept was razed incinerated swept from the face of the Earth by the Nazis  Theyre dead They left Earth long ago

sniffed inhaled Redbreast took a big sipheld it in his mouth salivated thought Let him ponder tha a moment

swallowed smarted too big a sip

                                   continued salivating savoredsucked it  swallowed spit

I conclude as Ive reasoned were cacogens

                                                Howya feelbout tha

Strong silent type

Still waters run deep

I think were done here

he left the chair in the hallway for a while to celebrate his familyhis roots those who made him possible thousandsanthousands of years ago

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0959,  Reggaefriday,  30  8. 24

KC and the Sunshine Band  That’s The Way (I Like it)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yupPvZF6oBw

funny how it is

                  when he had to get something off his chest he was rude could care less a bull in a china shop wouldnt  heel

      though sought to heal what was wrongbugged him

his mother God bless her

                      Son when she called him son he paid strict attention  she only called him that when she couldnt bring herself to call him by name  she was pissed

                                            You don’t interrupt people when they’re talking.

You be polite Im not

                      They need to know immediately I disagree

That’s rude.

Thas right

            Im not subjecting myself wont tolerate themtheir opinions  I refuse to acquiesce remain silent

You embarrass your father and I that we didn’t teach you any better.

Yadid

       Have them come tell me that  Im not you or Dad

he knew he pressed his advantage  firstborn her favourite  pissed her off regularly when they didnt see eye to eye

Theres nothing wrong with tha Maw

    ohbut there was

he defied her

she was trying to exert her dominance I’m your mother

he told her

            Save it for Dad                                                          

only violence heeled him

                           spanked as a boy  lesson learned  took up boxing  taught him fight or fight  no thing fight or flight response  was dog roped like a Cheyenne warrior  rawhide rope  picket pin

wouldnt back down

people learned he had no interest in pleasing them

    hmm  maybe funny isnt the right word

despite it feeling funny to him

1047,  Thursday,  29  8. 24

friend finally got hookedup on Netflix

                                        Any recommendations?

friend knew his brother before his brother introduced them

                                                               Bobby recommended Suits

Suits. What’s it about?

Attorneys Photographic memory  Fraud

                                                     Or if I had my druthersone of these days Ill get my hands on them fraud spelled P H R A U D  Appealing because one can swing like Tarzan on a vine to pharaoh Then swinging back find Freud who of course was a phraud

What are you talking about?

I ran on because you didnt look impressed or interested by my initial descriptors

There’s so many cop attorney shows on.

Youre failing to take into account tha Bobby recommends it

                                                               Only reason why I dipped in an was glad I did

So you recommend it.

I think Bobby’s recommendation is more meaningful than anything I woud have to say

How’s that?

Really

         Tell me the last time you followed a recommendation I made

See  Silence   Kiss of death

                                I appreciated Bobbys recommendation think you will too

Guess I’ll check it out.

                           What are you watching?

Not tha it matters

No.

Tryin to be polite

Yeah. Ya got me.

More than you give me credit for

phone rang

looked

friend

he usually texted

pickedup

         Wha the hell?

    I think it’s . Hell-o.

Don try to be clever

                    Wha the hell 

Had to call.

             I took Bobby’s recommendation, watched Suits.

No shit

I actually . . what’s that called . . . called . . . splurged?

Wha

I watched the entire first season.

Its called something

                     Don think splurge though I know wha youre talking about  I don do it

No . not you . . you're too ascetic.

Disciplined

Ascetic.

he disliked it immensely but sometimes he had to use it WhaeverOH  I got it

                                                                               Ya binged

That’s it.

Sound proud

I don’t know if you kno . .

. . I know

Fuckyou . what do you know?

A lot of shots of women in tight skirts shapely asses walkin out of scenes

DAMN.

        You do know.

Bobbys an ass man  Thought yaknew tha

                                                Attorneys  Really     My brother  Fat chance

 

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Suits  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q18TnxZxLI

Strikes again

               gettin old

AI aint all tha

               although he understands the vested interest Microsoft has in it  it an OpenAI  mothers of ChatGPT  

what a horrendous fuckin idea

helping dumbdown the masses

                                 how low can you go

                                                          obviously

lower

he wasnt in that spectrum

                             not the visible spectrum

was using WORD

he wrotetyped

                Anya know  I don need thanks

pretty fuckin simple

looked at his words

Microsoft its algorithm  hasnt learned adman (there they goagain – wrote  a damn  an it changed it)  hasnt learned a damn thing about him

repeat

redundant

Microsoft  its algorithm  hasnt learned

thought the process as touted   LEARNS

wrotetyped

             Anya know  I don need thanks

when he looked he found that WORD had changed don need to donned

                                                                              SLAP THEIR GRIMY PAWS

crossed his mother as a boy a teacher at school they slapped his handscracked him across the knuckles  pain makes one present

pain teaches

little tough to teach hardware software

                                          aah  AI

if IT had hands he would

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0954,  Thursday,  29  8. 24

Che Guevara said

                    “Words are beautiful, but actions are supreme.”   made him smile

Rachel Maddow says

                        “Watch what they do, not what they say.” 

of her quote she also said “That’s just weird.”

which by nearly four years predates Governor Tim Walzs  “. . . weird” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK155YkhoEY

hes a fan of the three

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Maddow  August 21, 2019  https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-coverage-maxim-watch-what-they-do-not-what-they-say-66934341943

role models mentors  heroes

                               ZIP

there was no one he aspired to follow  in their footsteps chuckled

                                                                            Gawd you abandoned me when I needed you most

laughed

punchline

           “ . . . times when you (saw) only one set of footprints . . . I carried you.”

Same size feet?

You realeyes . .

. . Nice

          Realeyes

Thank you

            You realeyes thas evidence

Committed to paper

                     Yes

It can be used against you

   Or for me

How do you see tha

Wha do you see

If there is a Gawd

Im incorrigible

             If   He ought to let me return to whence I came

Whence  Wheres tha

No clue

You confound me

Yet yastick around

Its a good group

                  Yare charismatic

A character

Cant take a compliment

From a cast of shehes heshes

                                 Be selfcongratulatory  Ya know I need no thanks

Selfishsufficient

I like it like it

Have a  dare I dare we

Dare you

            puzzled him

 

    We have a role model mento . .

. . Stop

Hero

Woudya STOP

they cackled

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https://www.geneseo.edu/~heap/footprints.html

he was hassling him again about the difference between an intellectual and a genius

Ive told you my view

Yeah well . . I’ve forgotten.

No you havent Youre being a pain in the ass

                                                But expecting you to be I looked up intellectual

Open the quote An intellectual is a person who has a lot of knowledge and prefers to think about things on an abstract or theoretical level rather than a practical one. Closed the quote

   We done

You’re crazy abstract.

Doesnt make me an intellectual

                                   Im curious  Unquenchably so

Because you’re always sitting around on your ass writing, reading, or readingwalking, walkingreading, whichever way you say it.

I don

       I do it

A fuckin’ recluse.

So says the social butterfly

                              You coudnt do wha I do

I wouldn’t want to.

 

Coudnt Be honest

                     Wha I do isnt everyones cup of tea an it neednt be  Each his own

So get off my back

    Recluse.

Anesthetised ascetic

Anesthetised?what the hell?

With thought

Social butterfly inside my head

                                 Imagine moths at night ghosty  madly flutteringround a lighted bulb

Thall give you some idea

    Some    Idea

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walking into his condo livingroom bookshelves to the ceiling a ladder to get at the top two

Have you read all these books? she asked

A goodly portion  Mind you Ive collected them all my lif . .

. . An avid reader. You touted that on your resume.

I did

It was . . . . particular.

Thought you were going to say peculiar

I wa . .

. . But then you thought to be kind

                                     Thas nice but unnecessary

Unnecessary?  That’s curious don’t you think?

No

    You neednt worry about hurting my feelings I havent any

she burst out laughingdidnt cover her mouth that appealed to him more than shed know hed compliment her

                                                                                                              gathering her wits  Ohmy, you’re serious.

I am

      Since were fresh you should know you can say anything you like or dislike  Be honest  No need to look over your shoulder

Speak  Freely

smiled sheepishly

                      Fresh.  Refreshing if you really mean it. I’ve negotiated a string of . .

. . Who are not me

                    You have my condolences

    Condolences.

Unfortunately  my experience   the majority is not representative of me

                                                                             They have nothing to offernothing I could want

she tipped her head aside like a little bird very appealing

                                                             Friendship.

I have very few friends anwha friends I have live way across the country

                                                                              Mines an ascetic not religious lifestyle  An ascetic atheist

Stick tha in your pipe Tolkien

Tolkien?

Yes Cellar door

                 Phonaesthetics He declared it the most beautiful word in the English language Im at war with him

He wrote The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Thas the guy

               I liked The Hobbit

And given all these books . . . do you have them?

I do In paperback

                    I prefer hardbound gesturing to the shelves but as you can see I also have a lot of books scifi early  tha arent

Pulp fiction

I see.

I don loan them

You do not?

See a book youd like to read See the table there  Thats the reading table

Like at a library.

No Librarys loan books

You’re funny.

Youve no idea

               Im a scream

    If I may, you said you’ve read many of them, but not all.

Not all

And the ones you haven’t read . . .

 

a question  hed let her ask in her time

The ones you haven’t read.

    Yes

Why do you have them? Keep them?

I buy books to read

                      Books keep me company

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1046,  day-between-2-Ts,  28  8. 24

Ben Harper  Excuse Me Mr.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJjsEyW5l6M