has no idea how he falls upon these things or they on him

                                                              The Panther  Chapman University newspaper

Chapman was due east of Palos Verdes Estates where he was visiting

                                                                           rather helping a friend meet too many doctor appointments for his own good

maybe the paper a castaway he found on office coffee table

                                                                 maybe

recalled Panther attracted him

pickedup somewhere

visit atasudden concluded

distracted foldedup under his arm

                                    rashly tossed in his bookbag with a clipboard books New York Review of Books he hadnt finished reading yet

                            who knew reviews could be so cool about things that prior held no interest for himIDIOT

Pink Empowerment

                         Duh he thoughtOh social political financial feminine empowerment

How crass am I

he could hear the Mariachi mass inside his head

No no none of tha Crass was rhetorical  I donwanna hear any of your shit  Journal

Journal made him laugh

Laugh it up funny boy

I said none of tha

Well talk later

                Im tryin to talk myself down off a ledge

Jump

Everyones a comedian  Fuckyall

You journal

Enough

           shame on him

he often chummed  had them rise to the bait

                                                I apologise I apologise   Well return to this

they knew he was good to his word

Pink Empowerment

they have the vag

                    he was surprised they hadnt been ruling the world for hundreds of years milleniums

cut the cocks off

not literally

            deny them access to their bodyYAHyah  they have needs too

                                                                             BUT

when was the last time it was recorded a woman raped a man

he had daughters  attractive daughters

                                          Head on a swivel girls  Be alert aware less likely targeted

he got them Mace

keyrings that doubled as brass knuckles

went a step beyond most parents

                                    had them instructed in knifefighting provided them some wicked stilettoes

                                                                                                                    not heels

they could buy those for themselves

Of course  pink   empowerment

    a Mariachi Woudya quit thinkin vag

Cant

       If Gawd didnt wantem eaten why did He makem look so much like a taco   Touche

Ouch Touche    Agree

I said well talk later

he was told it was 401 but it was probably 402,  Saturday,  28  9. 24

1304,  reggaefriday,  11  10. 24

https://www.thepanthernewspaper.org/opinions/opinion-femininity-is-strength-pink-is-empowering

(now 6666point5)

Hey Joe, excuse me, slow up.

voice behind him had just left a coffee shop where he was supposed to meet his girl but things went awry and she couldnt make it

                   Tomorrow? a plead

Of course kiddo Ill miss you today

                                     Tomorrow AM were good

Oh goodie. I miss you too.

they met unexpectedly

                        had been going togetherconsidered themselves a couple better than a month

not a lot of people they knewpeople they didnt know were keen

she beat him to the punch that was saying something

                                                     Fuckem.

she was awright

                  she was the last thing he expected in his life would be the last in his life

he turned  Joshlyn  Yes

Could I talk with you?

Sure Wha about

she was a freckled vivacious redhead quick wit they liked her an awful lot

It’s about . . it’s . ohmy . . . about . . well . . you and your girlfriend.

Were good  Unfortunately something came up an she wasnt able to make it this morning  We broke our streak huh

Yeah. Can set a clock by you two.

                                     I’m happy to hear things are okay.

Thank you  Whasup

Well, as I said, it’s about you and her.

she tilted her head like a small bird

    About you two.

Yah  Yasaid

It’s about, well, customers have complained.

Complained

Yes. PDA.

he looked at her as if she had two heads

she saw

he wasnt keen on acronyms

                               Joshlyn I know S an M   Not PDA

You know. sounded like she was pleading Wha the hell

I told you wha I know

Really? exasperated

    Joshlyn  Wha

PDA. Public display of affection.

he followedgrimaced assholes  smiled

                                         Shouldnt tha be PDOA

incredulous Are you joking?

No

      Who

What do you mean who?

Whos complaining

You know . . . customers.

Why are they complaining to you

What do you mean?  I’m the manager.

You manage the coffee shop

                             Not customers  Not their feelings

But they’re complaining.

Who are they

                Are any of they in there this morning

It would be uncomfortable for me to say.

Uncomfortable for you or  them

Them. I’m sure.

Shouldnt they be out here addressing meIll tellya wha  Joshlyn

                                                                      Youve pointed it out to me Thank you

    Now You can tellem youve spoken to me an you can tellem if they have future complaints they can take it up with me personally whomever they be you you witness anything untoward between us

I’m not on the floor all the time.

All the time is one hour in the morning an were usually the first people you greet

                                                                                     Yah 

Yah. shook her head curls went every which way  Yes.

Not on the floor doesnt answer my question

    I have not seen anything untoward between you.

No you havent

An were not

             So

Tellem to take it up with me

    You won’t be ugly?

Am I ugly

No.

     Actually you’re very handsomeIm attracted to you.

Thank you  he smiled

                        Im taken

gently he chucked her chin

                             Im going to hug you

he did

she blushed

Thank you for approaching me Joshlyn

                                          A learning curve  Something for you to put away keep

Don be a middle man when it has nothing to do with ya

Particularly

              When youre such a goodlookin woman

351preferred,  Saturday,  28  9. 24

1127,  reggaefriday,  11  10. 24

(6666point5 now)

he boast I do nuance.

Yahyado

           I asked you the time anya said threethirtyone Its threethirtytwo Nuanced  Yaoughta be ashamed of yourself

What? Why?

                I like odds.

I didnt ask you whaya liked I asked you the time ya lied

                                                              Lying aint nuance

If you had the tim . .

. . I did

    Ifya had the time why ask me?

Because

            When I asked earlierya don have to read hands on a clock your phone displays time digitally   You paused thought then you said

Ya don have to think to read time 

Thawas also an odds time as you like to say

So I let enough time to pass before I asked

                                             Had my phone knew the time because I suspected youd lie to me  again

It’s only a minute nothing in the big scheme of things.

Big scheme of things he shrugged like talking to a child

                                                         If youll lie about a minute what else woudya lie about

Christ.

        Like I committed some great crime. I was only joshing, I mean, what’s a minute long or short?

Aint nuanced

An joshing  I didnt mean it he didnt mean it

                                                Sound like every press secretary the former has had

Fuckin low blow.

Didnt like thahuh

                    Ask you the time please tell me exactly wha time it is not wha you want it to be 

  

331,  Saturday,  28  9. 24

0946,  reggaefriday,  11  10. 24

Chamber Brothers  Time Has Come Today  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqwzQ7g-Cc

    therefore  thus

                    his keyboard hadntno ones did the mathematical glyph that would be an equilateral triangle without sides only vertices dots one above two below

she was wrong

                 hardheaded woman

Youre wrong I looked it up You know I don take anyone at their word

she spewed must have touched a nerve Three dots at the vertices of an equilateral triangle sitting on its base sides not drawn

One Yes   However your other two were incorrect

                                                      Ill email wha I found

Don’t.

Awfully curt kiddo

Don’t.

Ill tryyare tempting me three in a row

                                           Got a real bugup your ass

Don’t.

 

he sang

         Be cool boy real cool Gotta rocket in your pocket be cool boy coolie cool boy

Ya better take a deep breath

                               Coming after your eternityyou also incorrectly fashioned has always existed  Something anything has to start at a beginning As you posed nothing exists without being in relation or related to something else No cold the absence of heat no evil the absence of good darkness the absence of light Shabby

                                                                                                  Eternity  absence of finite

Everything in our existence is finite  According to Death

Eternity has always been.

Its a human construct

The concep . .

. . Construction . .

. . Eternity, timelessness, the state of that which is held to have neither beginning nor end.

Time is a human construct

                             Why you being a horses ass  Anthroholic I know of it Sells anthropology  Perhaps anthroapology  Youre drifting into religion which ya usually abuse as I do

We’re done.

You takin my line

You heard me

As you like Done

                   I want credit   Comon a little love

Come near me I’ll bust you in the mouth.

Your bust in my mouth

                         Thad be plentyplenty D-credit

she turned on her heels walked away

Whabout my bust in the mouth

                                             wondering how long it would take her to cool off

1551 though he was keen on 351,  Saturday,  28  9. 24

1306, Thursday,  10  10. 24

West Side Story  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugWGhItaQA

https://anthroholic.com/theory-of-eternity-of-life#:~:text=The%20Theory%20of%20Eternity%20of,a%20new%20form%20of%20existence.

he turned around and found he had an audience in the kitchen

                                                                  he was cuttingup veggies for homemade chicken soup second day of preparation refrigerated overnight skimmed fat off the top finished deboning what the heat hadnt

Whasup gang

four cats

          three female torties blackbrown marbled october shy leftie the neutered Tom  bomber  an orange tabby like real feral Robert his old man

Whasup

he actually thought one day one would say

                                             they remained mute communicated with their eyes big cat eyes  watching

Excuse me

he set the large pot on the electric range dialedup a threeanahalf a long slow heatmarinating heat that would provide dinner round sixthirty seven would have a couple everything bagels on the side split and toasted

he stepped back to the sinkleaned against it

                                               Whasup

they were stoic

unmoved

statuesque

made him think of Gizas Sphinx

Well Ill tellya

                Is time to pee is time to tap a kidney

    they didnt appreciate the rhyme

he steppedthey fledbats out of Hell like they were next in the pot

                                                                    obviously

they didnt understand English

0929,  Thursday,  10  10. 24

1129,  Thursday

not one to beat a dead horse

but for Microsoft Word hed make an exception

                                                he wrote “I think everything you mentioned is a sign of the timesthe way things are going. You got to go along to get along.”

he typed upwards of onehundred words a minute with exceptional accuracy but while typing if he committed an errorhiccupped he usually caught it in his periphery a queerness a glitch a tha aint right and his hands came off the keyboard he read what he wrote beating a dead horse was confirmation of Word interjecting the wonder of its algorithms   faulty algorithms

                                   . . . everything you mentioned is assign of the times . . .

trying to be clever

asshole technology

a typewriter wouldnt presume to change the letter of the key he struck or spacing

                                                                                    Hellno errors were on the typist 

now he had to worry Words interaction or if jolly about ithumoured Words interplay  it was just joshing if he hadnt written this piece he likely wouldnt have formed just joshing a phonaesthetic to combat Tolkiens cellar door

                                                                                                        Thank you Word

he wasnt impolite

                    Now if youd step up an quit the shitput down what I lay down

Youre a function

Not a creator

    yes he was talking to an inanimate-wishing-to-become-animate formation or machine  that was ever-so-slowly scratching its way to singularity

                                  besting the human mind

while in turn tempted intern  the human mind is helping itself deteriorate erode by handing off work it could do but to quote his brother-in-law “I just don’t want to work that hard.”

once declared DUNCE in grade school sat on a stool facing a corner up front behind the teachers desk wearing a DUNCE cone cap

           now

Lazy Motherfuckers  who seem to be okay with it

                                                     they have more time for entertainment 

to perform witless acts

                          Comere boycomere Comere boy  Good dog throws a bouncyball  Fetch

does what its told dog expects treats

0941,  day-between-2-Ts,  9  10. 24

0859,  Thursday,  10  10. 24

National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)  https://amplify.nabshow.com/articles/ic-ray-kurzweil-singularity-ai/

steel wire egg slicer

                      freaked

october out of her mind 

                        shed hopped up onto the counter beside the kitchen sink times before when it was there but for some reason  likely he hadnt washed it yet after use  she glanced at it roseup on all fourswhirled her fanny and tail out of harms way

                lips pulled back  but no hissnear hiss  but no

then

      in the unique hip to crown quivershivering backanforth hed seen only felines do shheee tenuuousssly extended her left paw forward  aann CLOUTed the slicerbacked offnearly off the counter

then

        her tension eclipsed  it went out of her body

she leapt down

she killed it

it didnt pursue her

Hey october

               Can I wash this now tha youve dispatched it

she paid him no heed hustled out of the kitchen

in her defense not that she needed it was utterly capable he had scars to attest she was feral a kitten starved when his girlfriend brought her to him and asked if hed keep her

he had a cat indie  he was seven two of his house buddies died recently  figured he might like the company

not at first

             within a few weeks they were cool

he should have clarified keep her

his girlfriend was finding a place

she found it

has it still

0820,  day-between-2-Ts,  9 10. 24

1124,  day-between-2-Ts

he couldnt believe it

    he posted sixthousandsixhunredfiftyeight times before he labeled  lobotomy

he knew he described it in other pieces

                                           was flummoxed that he hadnt

I mean  Comon

pithed

scrambled brains (with eggs)

severed

cranium crumble

bashed skull

                not once before

“a medical awl held up against the flesh of an eyelid held firm to the thin bone beneath  occipital orbit  where a physician will aggressively rap it with a surgical mallet an perform lobotomies”

                                                                                    his

Really

Flummoxed

Dumbfounded

Stupefied

Astonished

Astounded

Staggered

Confounded

Nonplused

               no pussy  sex seems always to creep in

Buffaloed

           he got the point

Do you believe it now

Who asked you

Youre amazed

                 Fireworks an rockets went off in here forced us to take cover

Blew my mind

We saw

         We survived  Howbout a little warning next time

If possible

If possible Yah

Thank you Wed appreciate the headsup to keep our headsdown

Youre welcome

                 My apologies

Apologies accepted

he heard the shehes heshes sigh collectively

                                              could feel it come out his nose

he hadnt exhaled

Blew his mindPROOF

                         he hadnt been lobotomised

0921,  2sday,  8  10. 24

1014,  day-between-2-Ts,  9  10. 24

they yammered back and forth

friend falling over himself to be liked by everyone despite only they were there kept making excuses

pissing him off

                Awright  Then you tell me because I think we agree on the premise

Tell me when the decline of the American mind began

Decline . . .

So we don agree

Things rise and fall, there’s fluidity, things are in flux.

                                                           he was unconvincing

Decline of the American mind  I can say

                                              I can even say I recognised it early on

When?

Advent of reality TV

                     Thas when the toilet handle was pulled  Weve been spiraling down since yet to hit bottomflushed

I liked watching it, I watched it with my family.

My family watched it I sat in the room with them an read

You could read while the television was on you werent distracted?

There was nothing to distract me

                                   Youll remember Im from a huge family a survival skill ability to turn off sound

I liked them, I still occasionally watch ‘em. They’re mindless entertainment.

They are

          I don have a TV

Wha youre watching is our deterioration  Lay on top of it smartphones social media AI brick an mortar outlets goin byebye education online social interaction online interfacing online immediacy impatience

                                                                                               he stopped

Go ahead.

I think not

             I feel pessimism coming on

You havent said your piece

I think everything you mentioned is a sign of the times the way things are going. You got to go along to get along.

An you an your everyones are welcome to it

                                                Ill hold down the fort

he saw the expression in his face

                                      No sweat  Its what introverts do

3PMish,  Saturday,  28  9. 24

0927,  day-between-2-Ts,  9  10. 24

Whoawhoa  whoa  Just a minute please

she smiled demurely

                       was sure she wasnt taught thatmade her  even more attractive

she was a looker                                                                  

Again

A true Biblical stor . .

. . There Excuseme   I apologise for interrupting

                                                     True

she noddedcontinued smiling

                                   glowed

A true Biblical story

                      Ill grant you theyre stories But not true

Of course they are.

this was their first date

a mutual friend fixed them up

hed have to have their friends head checked

                                                Ya kiddinme

another friend said religion shouldnt be dealbreaker

Dealkiller he replied

You ought to go out on a second date.

A second date 

A second chance.

Theyre not equal

                   True aint changin

But you could be empathetic.   I know you got it in you.

Think not

          Youve only seen her I know you youre taking into account her physical assets

Beautys only skin deep

Yahno

        True Biblical stories is a dealkiller

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0843,  day-between-2-Ts,  9  10. 24

Man, you really got a hard on for it.

I do I do

           It appalls me yet most seem cool with ityoure cool with it

It’s progress. It’s technology.

                                Why would you standdare stand in its way?

Perceptions

              You see advancement label it technology science

Me

     I recognise it as a medical awl held up against the flesh of an eyelid held firm to the thin bone beneath occipital orbit where a physician will aggressively rap it with a surgical mallet an perform lobotomies

How dumb can we go

The benefi . .

. . Benefits

              Your take matter of speed saves time supposed accuracy  if asked correctly if programmed correctly

At wha cost

Stupid people

Wholl not be able to think for themselves

                                            An lemme tell ya

There are those who will think for themselves an seek an attempt to lead the herd

Its human nature

    You’ll be one of them?

OhHellno

 

ChatGPT

There’s that hard-on.

Its buddy

It’s buddy? Who?

Wha Captcha

                Sounds like capture spelled C A P T C H A   Know it

It’s not a word is it?

No  Your favourite an acronym a nickname you boasted handed em out as a kid fat kid christened Skinny  you know

What of it?

You tell me wha its short for

irritated I’ve no idea.

Nice

       Irritatin isnt it

Why they irritate me bullshit code between those in the know

                                                                      An I know  You don

 

You gonna say

    I am  I was just enjoying the roiling in your face

                                                         If you choose to remember It doesnt suit you

Why don’t you just say?

Captcha

           Means completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart You know the tests

I am not a robot

    I am a man in the vein of The Elephant Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0tqrlIqNmw

I do.

We wont be for long according to you an your ilk

after 2037,  Thursday,  19  9. 24

0921,  2sday,  8  10. 24

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