Define sublime

    mused  Sublime.

                      Who uses sub . .

. . I just did you parroted me

                                     Define it

Lemmesee began taking his phone from his multipocketedwho the fuck needs that many pockets khaki cargo pants

Nono   No

              Not a dictionary definition

Gimme something from your own experience tha feltor you might describe sublime

    Youre older than me Sing your praises

Your enthusiasm is daunting.

Comon   Sublime

You usually say first when you ask.

Usually

          Not today   Dazzle me

    Nope.

Nothing comes to mind, ya came out of the blue.

Christ

        Goes off in my head popcorn popping

Truly

Nothing

    STOPwouldya  It looks like it hurts

A little embarrassing.

                          You’d thin . .

. . I think

You’d think I would.

Why I asked why I withheld an example

                                             Albeit it a modest one

You had one loaded up before you asked?

I did  A genuine refreshing memory

                                       Spurred on by tha Ive not been

That’s a loaded sentence.

repeated it in his head  Yes  now tha yave mentioned it

Ante up. 

could see he was growing impatient  buddy needed to work on that

                                                                   Happy to

My oldest friendknown since Cub Scouts my mother our Den Mother sent me a postcard Hemingways house in Key West Florida

Hemingway?

               You told me not the other day your were reading a collection of his Nick Adams storiesya lived in Florida Miami, two years, yadidnt make it to Key West?

I did not

          I fell in with a lively crew who liked to smoke dope drink wine fuck  At the time my focus

Two years?

Yaheard of the proverbial lost weekend

Of course.

Yah

       Lost two years made Dionysus proud

Tha thawas   a tough routine to break

    I’m not sympathetic.

Didnt ask you to be

                           I was thinking more along the lines of how   how yes pathetic youd have been

Your Daddy woudnt have approved

Like your parents cheered you on?

I said two years lost   Sent them postcards so they knew I wasnt dead

                                                                                 I like routine

But were movin offpoint  Sublime

Love postcards

His postcard   Mailed it in Key West

                                         Postmarked Key West

screwed up his face

    I said  modest

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Billy Joel  Movin’ Out  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtL8vWNZ4o

human beens

AI

wasnt a fan

              lifeunfortunately goes on faster than he wants  enforced commercial 24/7 obscene

Vegas refusing to stay put in Nevada  maraudingintruding at will

if everything throttledinstantaneous

                                      it is hardcan be misconstrued when amidst this vastly parceledslivered time one seeks repose reflection  thoughtfulness

AI

    thought he was informed

knew ChatGPT Gemini Copilotdon think so  Claude

Perplexity.

Excuse me

You didn't mention it.

I don know it

    You may like to . . . sit.

Truly

I believe you know me well enough I’ll not tug your legparticularly in light of how incensedverging on violent you become when forced to regard all things artificialthat bug up your ass demanding authenticity, attempting, originality.

Human creativity

Despite inhuman machined creativity. Both are creative. You’ll give me that.

I have no choice but to

                          Also my choice not to be involv . .

. . Be left behind.

You shoudnt say tha asif it were a bad thing

                                                 Happy to hold down the fort wave byebye

You are an enthusiastic waver.

W  A  V  E  R

                  Or  W  A  I  V  E  R

Oh.  My.

            Both.  I didn’t see that coming.

Nor did I

Seated?

I am

Strapped in?

Don wear a seatbelt  Unlikely

Then we’re off.

Oh goody

Think Oz’s lions and tigers and bears.

                                          It may help.

Im attunedlistening

We have five aforementioned.

Correct

Chatsonic.

GitHub Copilot.

Different copilot

Yes. And yes a different Perplexity, Perplexity AI.

Characterdotai lowercase.

Jasper AI uppercase.

Meta AI, ditto.

Pi, like in math.

Writesonic.

CodeWhisperer, W capitalized, one word.

OpenAI Playground. Two.

Copy ai lowercase.

DeepSeek, S capitalized.

Grok.

Copyright Heinlein

I don’t know.

HuggingChat, C capitalized, one word

Bing.

Poe.

Copyright

No idea. Replika.

You, like you and me, Chat, capital C, one word.

DeepMind’s, M capital, one word, AlphaFold, F capital, although a biological application predicting protein structures.

    I ran out of fingers

 

Haven't enough toes either.

                               Obviously more coming.

 

Never enough more for human beens

B  E  E  N  S.

Correct

           Think Terminator 7 

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incorrigible

Strangeness, Integration, and Crisis  W G Sebalds elegant essay ON PETER HANDKE’S PLAY KASPAR

within he read a quote

                          I will have become because I am.

four lines later an affirmation mantra  is said to be repeated three times

                                                                               I am the one I am.

seemingly to reinforce I will have become because I am.

simplistically

               he pronounced I am

like No

needs no explanation

   he deemed I am long ago while a child who should not have known that at the age he was

he was at loggerheads with his parentswith indoctrination  education    school

they

it

tried ferociously to back him down

but submitting would have violated who he was

    back down then

                          then when would it stop It wouldnt

why would it

it was a long narrow barrel

the emittedchild a bullet inexorably spunspinning at some distant target

it would have been nice it would have been easier to have been a bullet

                                                                                but he knew he wasnt

they

it

knew too

   who was incorrigible

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AwferChristssake

                    kneejerk reaction

walking on a dirt lane under leafytrees coming out on the other side of the Editorial Note to W G Sebalds Campo Santo page four Prose  A Little Excursion to Ajaccio Corsica France on the lefthand margin just under the roundedge of his thumb a silent plop of mustardcoloured bugshit struck the page  quicklygently he blotted it with the corner of a handkerchief hoping to absorb it entirely

                                                                   but failed

a dollopedstain remained

when he was able to quit focusing on it

                                            he chuckled

it pointed to the line opposite that began  . . . devious maneuvers

                                                                             chuckled again

had he written it he would have spelt manoeuvres

                                                        pleased his oeuvre

his humour soothed his upset

his books were sacred

                            unblemished

he refused to let them out

which over the years angered many friends

                                                  Why?

    I   believe  ya understand no means no

                                                 No  also means no need to explain

many disassociated

it didnt occur to him to ask Why

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a head

Kyler went to her supervisorwhich  who  disgusted her  she loathed

                                                                         her hand forced by company policy  companys HR human resources was shit shit   absolute perfectlymarbled shit from protecting women from male higherups

all HR managers were men

                             she didnt understand   just the way it was    if she wanted a job

Why . . . 

DON’T ASK WHY.

ACCEPT.

IT IS.

she dressed  cloistered

                         flesh  curves   draped beneath folds   hidden

every day she entered she could read the dismay in her supervisors faceevery  fuckin   day

                                                                                                                          truth be known

tickled her perineum

last goround he wanted to discuss her   advancement

                                                          You . might . . . suck my cock.

she tossed her head backlaughed  threw her brightred hair with her hands

                                                                                she asked

Is that going to get me a head?

he puzzledlooked confused

                         which whipped her laughter to lather

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she said Kyler

he heard Kyler  questioned    Tyler

No. Kyler, with a K.

Family name

No. Mom and Dad liked the sound of it.

Nice

       I asked because I taking notes

I assume you are or you shoud

You shoud

May I ask the matter of this call?

Triple A emailed a request It asked for my odometer reading for insurance purposes but when I tried to interact with the application it denied my birthdate

One shoud assume Id know my birthdate antha somewhere along the line of our business dealings it asked an collected it

    Hence why Im talkin with you

                                     Anif I were you Id advise whomever in I T the failing of their product no one shoud believe in one-offs

I’m sorry.  How can I help?

Record my mileage

We have it.

              It was recorded . . . March Eleventh.

Who

Excuse me?

The failed email request wasnt sent to me until March Fourteenth

                                                                     Who

 

Then Ill assume Triple A set an algorithm an guessed

                                                          Wha did it report

Your mileage . .

. . My  my    myodometer reading

                                         Yes

Threehundredfiftyfivethousand miles.

Wrong

         Let me take a leap of fate

You like numbers  Youre workin inside an actuary

Actuary.

Yes

I don’t know that I’ve conceived that.

                                         I do like numbers though.

Are you seated

I am.

Good If you werent Id ask you to sitthis is a real humdinger

A humdinger?

he wanted to tell her it tickled his perineum

                                               but restrained himself

Pen an paper

I can note on my computer.

Under my name Anyone looksanother agent views my auto insurance account theyd see your dated notation

 

    I didnt think so

                      Hence my notation me asking your name last initial employee number to haul you up on the carpet if I need verification of our interaction

Last initial

K.

Employee number

I can’t share that.

What office do you work in

Kentucky.

Big state

            City

Louisville.

I cant imagine theres many Kyler Ks working there

No. Or not to the best of my knowledge.

Fine

      Ready

My crazy mileage so it can be corrected an the algorithmknocked on its automaton assuming ass

Also Triple A

she laughed

                  You got me on pins and needles.

Thought I might

Youre going to change the false fallacious figures   Ready                  

I am. I’m waiting with bated breath.

I like tha kiddo

                 Mileage is threehunredfiftythreethousandthreehunredfiftythree

Need a snapshot with my phone text it to you

No no. No that’s not necessary.

Not necessary  Perhaps not yet

                                    But evidence of Triple As screwup

I’ll have to have it approved.

Kyler  Please   You have common sense

                                             Take this to a supervisor my word  I also have receipts if push comes to shove   Im meticulous

In some corners of the country the world

                                            Im anal

I am

Take it to your supervisor youll be wasting our time

Hes gonna tell you to change it

                                  Pull the trigger  Show initiative

I’m sorry. I can’t.

I’ll have to put you on hold.

Wasting time

    he didnt waste his

                         soon as she placed him on hold he pickedup W G Sebalds Campo Santo an began reading where he stopped when he returned from grocery shopping  walkinanreadin

 

 

 

nine minutes later she returned to the line and told him she had permission and she was changing the odometer reading to  giggled

                               Threehunredfiftythreethousandthreehunredfiftythree

Thank you Kyler

                  Yaoughta let your supervisor know tha initiative is critical to any successful company  Or individual

Have a fine afternoon

Thank you.

Youre welcome

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    prescience   irked him

                            but what was more irksome was buddys alphaHomo sapienship

wished it would run aground

sink

Man, you really got a hard on for our species.

You ought to as well

Why?

          We are the apex species top of the food chai . .

. . An for some reason you delight in tha

Delight.

             I’m fuckin’ thrilled.

Youre thrilled  because you think were the only species on the planet tha has the presciencethe big  fuckin brain  to understand    were going to die

                                              I doubt tha

You think animals have a sense of death?

You think animals are automatons

You think they lack conceptualisation

Theyre dumb

Should they be leaving the planetbecome extinct  as we  apexassholes  hustle them along to extinction

You think tha Ignorance doesnt understands it is going to die

Word Ignorance  Capital I

                             I also relate to Homo sapiens

We have some beasts in our midst

Agree

Disagree

    You got a real bug up your ass.

Because I believe

                      Animals have a sense of deaththey do

Thaya choose to overlook them is your dereliction

My he harrumphed  dereliction?

Yup

       Though thamay be because I prefer relating to an with animals insects plants

Braggadocio.

                  You relate because you prefer not relating with people . unsocial . . are a freakin’ . what’s the wor . . yes . . . a freakin’ introvert.

Thas fair

            But youd lose your mind if yadidnt have someone aroundbe around  to   entertain you

Ive no problem with your assessment

Ive staked myself driven it in the ground tethered myself to it

                                                                    Immovable

Have to kill me an my sense of  prescience

       

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https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/paleontology/extinction-over-time#:~:text=Judging%20from%20the%20fossil%20record,as%20extinctions%20continue%20to%20occur.

disliked with extreme prejudice preferred that to hates disliked the word

                                                                           disliked the keypad on his iPhone as he texted 

was constantly striking the wrong letter

                                           looks up at his screenSHIT  then had to dick around try to hit the space between words with his finger machine ignored him then ended up backspacing through wordwords to correct his misspelling start again only to misstroke again  backspace through wordwords

    case in point

                  he textedreplied to his buddy when he texted him that he was at the hospital to knockoff the required EKG labwork xrays in preparation for a minor corrective surgery later in the month

they were going to see each other the next daywere attending the HANDS OFF demonstration in the city

textedreplied  :  :  Looking forward to tomorrow

Pleased you took the time to determine your baselines You can tell me about the goodlookin’ nurses you harrassed yesterday

If not, make something up.

                               eventually  thats what he SENT

when he lookedup at his screen to send didnt want to make an error a misspelling

                                                                                         found

You can tell me about the goodlookin’ nurses you harrassed not a misspelling the second R made harass more harrassing   you harrassed teaterday

T to the left of Y E was correct A left of S

                                              turned yesterday into teaterday

harrassed teaterday

                         sighed For Gawdssake   questioned Freudian

Saturday after the demonstration stopped for coffee and bullshit  he admitted teaterday

buddy asked why he just didnt send the error

                                                 It’s humorous.

Because I wasnt meaning to be humourous I was tryin to incentivise you because yararely tell stories I was tryin to give you some leadtime

Whachagot

What do you mean what do I got?

    Story or lie  about goodlookin’ nurses at the hospital

There were none.

And

And?

Story or lie

Oh.

       I don’t know. The xray technician was gay.    I think he was hitting on me.

And

What?

Whenya meeting

Oh for God’s sakes.

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