occasionally hOles in his perception as he walked and read

                                                               quicktiltglances forward  over top of the book

taking in the lay of the land

if people  rare pedestrians

    a hOle

missed a downed powerline before him that a pedestrian  left  other side of the motley rotting concrete street there were no sidewalks gleamed her seventy metres earlier

                                                       Careful she warned I walked this way halfhour ago and it wasn’t down.

she nodded as he thanked her was on the cell calling it in

                                                                            comely  really dug her efficiency

    

    a hOle

nearly missed the sunlight reflecting up there hadnt been rain

                                                                          AwwKahRist   profane

congealed

in the churchs remote parking lot at the back of the property

only staggered hopscotchsteps forgave him had he stepped on it hed have glidedslick across it

a cellophanescab of vomit on the blacktop  assphalt

                                                          copious

had to be the entire content of their belly

had half a mind to use a stick to push through it lookin for their asshole

                                                                           Otherwise

they swallowed it

to retain it

1440,  Thursday,  1  5. 25

1016,  Tuesday,  17  6. 25

Again.

they were hiking

she was behind him

he was familiar with the trail  hinted by deer 

he threw conversation over his shoulderprojected his voice or had thought he was

                                                                               Again wha

What you just said.

he stoppedturnedher head was down she almost ran into him

                                                                      You didnt hear me

resting her hands on his chest

                                No.  I heard.

    Then why again

You don’t think that was an odd thing to say?

Odd I say odd things Youve remarked more than oncemany times  tha many times regarding wha I say

    Queer now you ask me wha I said if you heard

I heard.

Then

Had I said it, wouldn’t you ask me to repeat myself?

No

    Id have heard you

I hear hawks.

Ja

Anwhy the German?

Doesnt end with an S he exaggerated the S   snakish

cut him off

             Hawks.

Ja

How?

Ive no idea

             Walking  Silent  Typical white noise in my head tha accompanies me

Tinnitus some say

Irritateem when I counter background radiation   Maw Earth sighs

                                                                           But I digress 

I hear gliide

               Like the whisper of deepsnow cut by the sled runners coming downhill when I was a kid

Knife through butter

Tha sound

    Interesting way to explain it.

                                    Kinda makes me wish I could hea . . .

There

            in the sky a hawk

  

1430,  Wednesday,  30  4. 25

0849,  Tuesday,  17  6. 25

he read somewhere  Good which is unused is prone to turn to evil.

                                                                                     he

not him

himhe did not believe in evil

                                 theres good    bad

no evil

    evils religiously weighted 

religion had no bones in his world

                                     but in his  unused    prone to turn evil

Really

          Cant store good

Airtight Tupperware

Jerky dried

Salted like cod

Flash frozen

    Goods perishable

Turns into evil

Rye molds

Ergo therefore

               Ergotism

    LSD  lysergic acid diethylamide

                                     in the day someone couldnt say what LSD was

No blotter for you

Man, why ya gotta be a prick?

Ignorant

           Youre trip possibly a Bone China bowl of warm mud

I prefer turning on people wholl be agile adventurers able to relate their hallucinations

chuckled  pointed over his shoulder with his thumb at the crayon blockletter cardboard sign

                                                              We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. 

We hint  should they think he was holding down the place by himself

he was the people person

his partners

               definitely were not

1322,  Monday,  16  6. 25

2331,  Monday

shook his head

                            No

Anif so no wonder whya didnt catch a fish  if even to release

I’m tellin’ ya yeah.

    Again

Alright alright.  I think you’re tryin’ to trip me up.

Me

      Tha tongue of yours it don need no help from me

Names agin

Good ol’ boys. Big, no, no, Gig, Gig an Biff.

I knew a Biffpretty sure many guys in America have known a Biff  drifts   through their  life

    You’re makin’ fun.

Im not  As a kid  Thasaid

                             I knew himfriendly enough though I didntwoudnt have had him as a fast friend

Or a flyfishin guide

rolled his eyesglared

                     I didn’t make the arrangements.

Went along for the ride   Gotcha

                                   Somebody else falls on the sword anyone else but you

Your enduring  endearing   utter lack of commitment

What?

You don headup a trooper  Youre   Wha  Me Worry

                                                         Alfred E Neuman

Before ya protest  your ears are awfully similar

What’s the knock?

Whas their names

    I said.

Ya stumbled Big an Giff

                              So said you

Their names

They’re Big shit . . now you’ve confused me.

Ya began confused

                     Maybe four guides   Big an Gig an Giff an Biff I wasnt there

But you did get one fish on the six times you went outlike I said fishing isnt necessarily about catching fish

Might compare to swings an misses in college with the ladies

                                                                   The chase

Come home alone

                       Or

Maybeunlikely  better luck luring ladies

                                            Lurid ligament binding late night an last calls

Wha as you callem  lures  did yause

Wet or dryflies

                I were a fish I woudnt have risen either

Are you knockin’ me?

Me knock you

                Sounds notoriously like  Wha  Me Worry

Ja

1410,  Saturday,  14  6. 25

1228,  Monday,  16  6. 25

Pianza  A Shadow’s Lament  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doc00tCkhOo

You’re doing it again, Papa.

its not that he was ignoring her

                                      he didnt hear her

You’re doing it again, Papa.

no

    he didnt hear her

jumped a bit when she touched his shoulder looked at her wideeyed

                                                                             You’re doing it again.

cleared his throat

                         Doin wha again

she smiled a sly smile her dimples werent as deep as her sisters  humored nonetheless

                                                                                        Reading the dictionary.

Aah  Tha

              Got me I am   Its a good book

It’s a dictionary.

Are we going to debate if its a book or not

It’s a dictionar . .

. . Which  is   a type of book

I’ve talked with other kidsMaw, she doesn’t read the dictionary, their parents don’t.

So wha baby

                 I shoudnt because others don

he watched her silently move I shouldn’t because others don’t around in her mouth not once  twice  several times

             chewed it

he watched

he was curious what shed say

                                         Anyway.                            

Wha

    I finished my essay. Would you go over it with me?

Of course  One second please

Hungup on a word?

he grinned at her

                     Entertained   By a word

 

What would that be?

Hackneyed

she said it softly  then

                             How is it spelled?

H  A  C  K  N  E  Y  E  D

shrugging  What does it mean?

Adjective

             Says here  Phrase or idea lacking significance through having been overused  Unoriginal  Trite

Hackneyed.

Yes

Banal.

Ya got it  Yes

                     Smarter than you look

HEY.

0958,  Monday,  16  6. 25

one finds their hero whenwherever they emerge

  

                                                       hes not on X  not any social media

struck him his whole life hes managedavoided as best he could stepping in dogshit

WHY

START

NOW

ABCs Terry Moran earlier this monthmaybe late last  jostled felon in the Oval Office

                                                                                       ol' thinskin lost his grip 

but presidential isnt his forte

he read an article

                    1206AM  Sunday  June Eighth  Terry Moran posted on X

“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. mans not interesting  It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred is only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”

try as he may

                anhe woudnt

he coudnt disagree one iota

he was keen on brevity

                         hed have reduced the paragraph like cooking reduced it to  Miller felon CUNTs

no disrespect intended towards women  unless theyre earned it 

hes known a few 

                    he was Johnny-on-the-spot callinem out      

308preferred,  Monday,  16  6. 25

https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-moran-trump-stephen-miller-abc-news-1236434732/

discernment   Oxford Languages dictionary definition   1. the ability to judge well

                                                                                 what had he learned since a child about judgment

another thing his parents did right

tallied under GOOD  lefthand column

                                        according to him

his siblings shrugged when he asked what they thought  they hadnt

                                                                according to him

they were playing catchup to the righthand column

                                                          Judge not lest ye be judged

his parents didnt use lest or yeWho 

dug around and found it was Matthew

cat was given a lot creditedwritten in the Bible

                                                   although he was suspicious

the Bible was consolidated more than two hundred years after the events

                                                                                    when they occurred

no one was writing  quoting    theirs was an oral tradition

Matthew

            maybepossibly  a bit like Kilroy Was Here  graffiti of World War II American GIs

his parents insisted he not judge

 

 

discernment

                  why was it shaking its shaggy headround him

    for what he happened to overhear

by the looks of them HEY  No judgment   lets say they surprised him

                                                                           . . . discernment for what you’re not.

was not often he heard the word      engaged   deployed

came out  nicely   nicely  out of ones mouth

                                                 if he had been involved in their conversation he would have tendered

considered

                consideration

First People may have had it right

. . . walk a mile in ones moccasins

though he doubted they actually said that    because

                                                            no one was writing    tribes had oral tradition

if incorrect    corrected

                           hed apologise for his abysmal mistake

1738,  Sunday – Father’s Day,  15  6. 25

1003,  Monday,  16  6. 25

Pianza  Hourglass  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGw2ZsI4ugk

she stepped into the tiled hallway turned her back to him closed the heavy oak door  turned back around

she was dripping wet

white tshirt

braless

       You were right. It was gonna rain.

he nodded

             Lemme getya a towel

went from the hall into the formal diningroom into the kitchen into the halfbath off it

returned

she was chilled had slipped off her shoes barefoot socks balledstuffed in each shoe

he handed her the towel

Thank you.

Ya betch

           he watched

she daubed her face daubing her eyes cheeks  went to her head  vigorouslytoweled her hair then brusquelyran it down her arms across her chest worked it down her thighs calves  straighteningup she brought the towel overhead regrasped it arms behind her she vigorously toweled her shoulders back  fanny

she tossed him the towel

leaned at the waist

shook her hairran her fingers through it stood upright again

                                                                  Aaah, better.  she smiled large killer dimples

he smiled

    So what you thinking?

You have to ask

0709,  Sunday -- Father's Day,  15  6. 25

Care for an edible . . .   as he handed him one

Ohedible

                    then in his head a clatter a Venetian blind hastilyyanked up

his reply changed  Ohedable

he thought  Ohedbabble

                             Oh

                                      ed

                                        ibleliable          liable

accepted it on his own accord

There’s rosin in it

Hash oil

Yeah  Rosin

                 couldnt help but play with that in his head

Rosin     Raisin  raisin oat bran

                                      Raisin Cain  widhim

OhEld

       OhElp

whippedup aerated he considered them   not surewhich should have precedent

1939,  Wednesday,  28  5. 25

0953,  Sunday -- Fathers Day,  15  6. 25

Aging  The Kiss of Wet Asphalt  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO_br-Zym5w

John Hunt black lead character in Everetts Wounded

                                                         it somehow gravitated to Richardsons historic Wounded Knee

one book or the other on top the other

Crazy  given the dozen other library books stacked on the studio floor at his heel

John said Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

                                                                    simple language   bigger

who we love

bigger

         than us

    hes enjoyed that kind of love throughout his life

                                                        heartbreak

so many have died

                    tearing through lifetaking for grantedIll seeya next time round  for granted   except

those simple solitary quiet moments together

                                                asif held in honeyooze   amberised in his brain

conversing

cool evening chilling the windowpanes

reflecting the flickeringflames in fireplace

standing to stoke the crumbling wood

adding one more log

the last

before bed

 

                       Bigger

1310,  reggaefriday,  13  6. 25

1028,  Saturday – No Kings Day,  14  6. 25

lotsa birthdays

lotsa Geminis

                he got along exceedingly well with them   he was an Aries

lotsa of homemade birthday cakes

                                     lovingly made  hearts and souls worn on the sleeve kind of cakes

caringly beautifullymade

his two favourites

a ginger cake decorated with shredginger jumbo cinnamon gummy bears

a carrot cake  creamcheese frosting scattered walnuts carrot slices cleaved to look like hearts  a whole carrot greens included arched to one side

hed not seen either like that ever before

                                           delicious  artworks

he enjoyed a sliver of each

wasnt keen on cake

                        his birthday cake was a lemon meringue pie

the pie his mother made for him for years were the best

                                                             then

his girlfriend made him “risked” as she said she understood whos pie hers would be held up to

she  crushed  it

a heart and soul pie

                      eating it he admitted as much

 

were probably the only times savouring her successive birthday pies  he conceded the possibility of soul

0826,  Saturday -- No Kings Day,  14  6. 25