he said his name was Elmer

he misunderstood  Alvin    too much loud rocknroll

patiently

            No.  Elmer.

who names their kid Elmer

Elmer  Excuse me   Im Joe

they ran into each other on the street pedestrians few and faaaar between

                                                                                 he was walkinanreadin

What are you reading?

stuck his finger between the pages bookmarker closed it turned it so he could read the cover  The Body Keeps the Score

Oh.    I thought you were reading the Bible.

                                                I thought if you were you could pray for me.

Elmer had a homelessness look   frizzyunkept hair  crossbreed

they ran into each other a couplethree more times over several weeks

                                                                            Elmer forgot Joe

every time would ask him what he was reading

he showed him the different covers

Oh. I thought you were reading the Bible.

                                            I asked if you would pray for me.

Im not a praying man Elmer I can think good thoughts though

 

 

he woke

someone broke a window at the front of the house

he got upsat on the edge of the bed heldhung from his right a hammer a roofing axe

whoever  picked their way down the hall

his bedroom was the last room on the right

the directedoverhead nightlight threw their shadow on the ceiling    frizzyheaded

they enteredstopped  at the threshold

                                            Gotcha.  You pray?

Me No

           You

I’ve asked you to pray for me . . .

                                          Joe

Yesyadid Elmer  Had good thoughts for you then

    I asked you to pray for me.

You saw the books werent the Bible

unsheathing a knife   That’s too bad for you.

                                                     Pray now?

No

      You pray

Elmer stepped closer

                        Not for you.  Too bad.

God gives suicides a hard time

Suicides?

What do you think this is

                          suddenlyflipped the axe to his leftslammed it into Elmers cheststood brought the ballpeen hammerturned sideway down on his skull forehead collapsed watchtower went down into his eyes bridge of his nose halted its momentum

    assisted suicide

he saw Elmer coming before Elmer did

the knife thumped on the carpeted floor

Elmer dropped to his knees

 

    he didnt think Elmer was praying

2205,  Tuesday,  3  6. 25

1212,  Sunday,  8  6. 25

hawked a significant lougie while watching True Detective First Season

                                                                           felt like he pulled it up from waydeep in his throat

thorax

         beside his heart

hawked fourfive times to clear it it filled the whole back of his throat  was weighty

as he spat it into the bathroom sinkhot water running he recognise its deeplyopague pearlescence

it tasted sweet

shaking his head as it thicklyspiraled down the drain

    it wasnt a lougie

was his soul

 

he asked after it

                   Thas where ya been hidin  

2110,  Tuesday,  3  6. 25

1101,  Sunday,  8  6. 25

Whasit called     yaknow   a religious thingamajig thingamabob  he laughed uproariously   thinkin ajig jigaboo mother pinned his ears back for tha rained holy hell on him all of three years old racist fathershe wasnt havin any of it  happened in the back of an electrified bus downtown Chicago

                                                                                          Yaknow  Archdiocese

I don know

Archdioceses not close    Thingamajig   uproarious again

                                                                      Synagogue   No  not Jewish 

Precinct   

No   Come on  religious not secular

I don know

You do  Yaknow secularwha am I tryin to say

I don know

Think deeper  a thingamajig

Wouldya quit with tha

Cant stop tickles me   Potpourrilunged from his thruat liked it more than throat 

I havent a clue what youre talking about

Don get off track   I knowyaknow

I know

Of course yado  I wouldnt askya otherwise

Religious

Yesyah

Ja

Don start youll get off track I need this Catholic Protestant Christian Presbyterian  yaremember that church in the basement that blonde with a motor an appetite nearly ate me aliveyah now Im getting off track  not them not a proper name   orthodox

Ya know

              Not wha I know  you  you   whayaknow

Parish

YES  Thas it

Christ

        Wha of it

Oursill be that  P  E  R  I  S  H

                                     Whaya think  Well begin our own little perish

Perish the thought

 

 

    Yawoke me for this

Nah this You woke up woke soya didnt piss the bed

                                                         Ya start pissin the bednah anyall be as old asya think yall get  promise made  soppy mattress rusty springs

I don think beds got springs nomo

No matter  piss yourself  Hear me   Flattery

                                                 Youre too young

Ifya really want to be as old asya promised  Promised agin an agin  Promised your daughter

Ey

You  Or me

You

Please   Perish the thought

0527,  Thursday,  5  6. 25

1005,  Sunday,  8  6. 25

A quizzical question if I may?

                               Aah delicious    Phonaesthetic

I thought you might like that.

Ya thought correct

                      Askaway

You won’t take umbrage?

Since its you

              Likely youll only annoy me   Therefore I am

What?

    As I said

quizzical look crossed his face dotted his eyes Awright.

                                                     Wait.   I don’t know what you meant by that.

Annoy me  I am

                   Molestus  Cognito ergo sum

quizzical look knottedlooked like it hurt Never mind.

Cool  Im cool

              Your question

seemed to brace himself  Are you egotistical?

Yes

     Arent we all we anif arent we shoud  Based on the premise of selfcenteredness

If youre not youre gonna get fucked

                                       Not really a quizzical question friend

Unless

    Unless?

You find ego offensive not rudimentary

                                          UnUr unoriginal  ungenuine

Inauthentic

Catholicism teaches turn the other cheek good olfuckin Matthew Five Thirtynine 

                                                                                     I retaliate inside a breath knock heads off

I do not tarry

    Reflexive

Have you erred?

Probably

            Did I care

No

      Stepped too close to the line

But if they don’t know the line?

They certainly learn

1811,  Thursday,  22  5. 25

1555,  Saturday,  7  6. 25

Christ  I got irate yesterday

You?   Irate?

Don bust my balls

I’m not.

          On you it’s not a character flaw.

    Is tha a compliment

As close as I’ll ever get to givin’ yaone.

                                           About what?

D-Day

        None of my gmail newsfeeds my politics the girls were fightin none mentioned D-Day Nineteenfortyfour  None of my literary my art pages either

Not a one

When I woke in the morningnot out of bed a minute makin it I thought  Todays D-Day  All my uncles six fought in it two wounded all survived

My fatherinlaw in the Pacific

My best friends father in the Pacific Lied about his age a Marine killing Japs at sixteen

    Not a fuckin word

Had to call my Dad to blow off steam

Asked him if D-Day was carried on the front page of the Chicago TribuneNo

He said What do you expect, son?  All those boys are dead now.

Deads not forgotten Dad

No, son, it’s not. Angiven your memory . . . you’ll continue it in their stead.

That’s was kind of him to say.

Yah  He helped takin me down a peg or two I coudnt go out till the afternoon walk among amnesiacs fuckin America amnestic America

                          Christ

Still hot?

I am

       Crush of amnesiacs who suffer need to be instantly gratified

                                                              Cunts

Awfully hot.

I am

    Might suppose . . .

 

 

Sppose   Wha

Might suppose that’s whaya get for being a paperboy keeping the routes ten years deliveringem into your freshman year of college.

    Steeped . . . in history.

1801,  Thursday,  22  5. 25

1215,  Saturday,  7  6. 25

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/pregnant-georgia-woman-brain-dead

 

Thas fucked up

What?

The Georgia braindead woman Adriana Smithwho happens to be black her body is being maintained to keep her foetus alive

                       A cocoon

Hospital is waiting for the foetus to conclude its pupa stage before performing a Caesarian to free them

 

 

    Tacenda.

Ja

   Im  too at a loss for words

 

A science experiment

Mad science experiment

                          Mad God  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jas8OABbn0Y

Mad God?

See it some time

                      I cant imagine wha Ms. Smiths family is going throughor  imagine when the child is old enough to be informed digests  their unfathomable  term   internment

Do you think the family will tell them?

Tha will be up to them

                             If I had my druthers I woud sayimagine  if the child found out on their own

While so many know

    I can’t.

Horrific

Yes.

1030,  Saturday,  7  6. 25

Rope a boy  Shot the violater

                                      imagined this was what having Tourettes would be like

What are you talking about?

Trigger

          You asked stringer 

Yes.

      But I didn’t expect that’d be your answer.

    It wasnt

It wasn’t?

Nah

      Apparently something tha needed to get out  Incogent

I think   no  believe  itd be dangerous to stand in the way

                                                                   I step aside

You asked what a stringer is

Kinda regret I did.

No no

        Its cool

If Im cool an it came out of me yaoughta be cool too

                                                       West Side Story     Keep it cool boy

A stringer

Write articles I covered sports interviewed wrote articles anif the paper papers liked the reporting Id get paid for them

I got paid forem

Readers liked my take a whole lot

Endedup writing for two Actually was a proofreader for one read it corrected before I took it into the city to have the paper pressed

A very cool experience

You make a lot of money?

No

    I wasnt a reporter A stringer  Can always cut a loose piece of string let it go  Ja

Ja.  chuckled   I suppose.

It helped keep my nose clean

1723,  Thursday,  22  5. 25

1137,  Saturday,  7  6. 25

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

peering down while peeingpeeing that made him chuckle not his usual nomenclature made him wonder if the brain is the center of all things

                                     urinating isnt hard work

    mindless  one could concede

he stood astride a short three-point bearing rock wall

                                                         between his legs  a grotto

mouth to the sky as opposed to an opening parallel to the earth cavelike

walkingapproaching the wall lizards scattered across the fitted pavers one scrambledup scampered across the top of the wallplunged into the grotto

as he urinated the lizard cautiously appearedcrept up  stopped twothree inches shy of emerging and watched

Hello there friend

 

    when he finished urinating on his shadows leg he sloowlystepped backward off the wall  left leg down right inexorablyfollowing

the lizard did not move

he backed away

the lizard did not move

Pretty courageous kiddo

 

he turned oneeighty and walked back to the cushioned outdoor chair sat went to say to his buddy but she asked You always talk to yourself as you urinate?

I was talking to a female lizard

A female?

            Lizards look androgynous.

Ja

But you assert . . . she was female.

They

she laughed  You stuck on pronouns?

he laughed  Spend a week in Seattle ansee ifya don return with a brace of pronouns in your mouth  I must say Ive gotten good atem

laughed harder her gorgeous dimples on full display he wanted to fill them with a claret sloowly sip from them and lick what dribbled off her throat and neck

                            They were female.  How’d you know?

Simple deduction

You?   Deducing?

I have my moments

                      Ja

And.

Watching me urinate staring up at my cock  she chuckled   smacked her lips

1605,  Thursday,  22  5. 25

0955,  Saturday,  7  6. 25

Black Angels  Black Background V  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dkr6bs5mTw

If you could.  One reincarnation.    What would you have been and in what era?

I woudnt have begun as a dog

    flummoxed  A dog?

Ja

      Yaheard the one about the dog

    About the dog.

                       Can't say that I have.

He was negotiating with his humanshe was a very old dog negotiating about whether or not they shoud euthanise him

                 He may have misunderstood youth-anise

Whaya think Licoriceflavoured child

I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

A negotiation

                Ya know when it comes to earthlings inanimate objects I anthropomorphise

    Yes.  Yes you do.

So hows tha a surprise

You’ll excuse all to Hell and back. I’m always surprised.

Not my problem

                  The dog negotiated a deal where hed allow youthanisation as long as he coud return as a human being

What’s this got to do with my question?

Your question is my question tha I asked weeks ago antha I answered when I asked but youve forgotten an ya think its yours  Youve yet to answer

 

I thi . .

. . Wrong

          Maybe to honelong shot your memory  I also referred to reincarnation as reincarceration

Ring any bells

That . . . that . thatkinda does.

Good  Level playing field   Evenkeeled

We’re good?

Ja

 

You want to take a second shot at it?

Wanna take a first

    Maybe you take a second and I’ll figure out my first.

 

Pushinit

I know.

            You have a fallback?

Think I was born yesterday

No.

No

    Takin a second crack as a dog Id negotiate my return as either Sappho or cum back  C  U  M back as Vatsyayana  He penned the Kama Sutrahopeful  written from experience  He was after all a philosopher

Either selectionyou may recall are in defiance of my prior reincarceration choice  Mountain man

between 459preferred and 1723,  Thursday,  22  5. 25

1116,  reggaefriday – D-Day,  6  6. 25

learn a bit about yourself  https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a19532949/kama-sutra-sex-positions/

    homeostasis out of the blue

                                      O Homeo, Homeo! Where for art thou Homeo? Thank you Shakespeare

he was working on it

he thanked his ProctorSilex machine for making his coffeehands to either side of its heated crown grateful warmer weather had arrived  warmer applyingif he must he must one adjective  he usually describes weather  weather

imagine waking and there wasnt one

                                           its a little game he plays

actually hes been playing since 2020 eyes sharpened into harshfocus

                                                                        if he didnt live where he did

he wouldnt be able to play

he hasnt run Heat or Air

                           O Homeo, Homeo! Where for art thou Homeo?

working on his homeostasis

his homostasis

                 homo not meaning queer not that queer should ever have been applied chest-thumping queer-fearing heterosexuals who think their shit doesnt stink   IT DOES   homo  Man   Homo sapiens sapiens  H. s. sapiens

it was his attempt to realise men and women pronouns included the way they once were

he suffers slings and arrows for using  feminising despite his use describing men and women a softening softer and softer and softer  every year

its a game he plays

                       he wouldnt recommend it to others

he intends to enjoy the warmth

he couldnt say he enjoys the cold

    Deal with it   

0827,  reggaefriday – D-Day 1944,  6  6. 25

learn a bit about yourself  https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution/The-emergence-of-Homo-sapiens

 D-DAY today  1944

fuck the girls that are fighting

real masculine

felon f/elon

0827,  reggaefriday,  6  6. 25