a silence fell between them

                                  he knew what he was thinking   not her

there hadnt been anything contentious

but from postures

facial expressions

they went through doors across the hall from each other   thoughtfully

    they looked at each other  placidnot antagonistic

smiles mixedmused their faces

even musing her dimples flickered deliciously

 

So

      he spoke wasnt fond of so

Yes.   she chuckled

                       Ja.

Sawbuck for your thoughts

    A sawbuck?

Worth every penny

How generous.

No

     Im blatantlytryin to bribe you

You don’t have to be so extravagant.

Evidently ja  I got words rollin again

                                             Your thoughts

The money.

             pushed back in the chairhips slippedforward stuffed his hand into a front pocket produced a wad of folded bills Makes me look hung unfoldedfeatheredem small bills without  plucked a tenspot  halvedem again stuffedem back in his pocket shiveredback  satupright held the bill out to her between his fingers

          The money

You're legit.

Moneys where the mouth is

                                  Speak

I wasn’t thinking anything specific.

I put you off

You always put me off.

                            Why I keep coming back.

You?

 

Take a breath

A breath.

Versus

    You have an obsession withem.

Ja  Still

              Remember the continuum bends either up or down  their extremes near each other

I do.

I was thinkingot ahold of your panties

My panties?   You think I need to?

They come off Im not givinem back

her turn  she slithered forward in the chair unbuttoned a couplethree buttons slipped her thumbs indexfingers inside the waistband  pinched

                                              Gotem.

A good grip

As good as I can get pinchin elastic

    God   The Divil

her jaw dropped

1410,  Thursday,  26  6. 25

1745,  Thursday

Got a moment?

Ja

      touched her knee  Youll excuse me please

Certainly.

Got a moment? walked off

                                Was there anything I coud get you while Im up

she handed him the tumbler she drank from

                                                Please, if you’d replenish this?

Happy to

Thank you.

Yabetcha

    caughtup with Got a Moment? in the house  replenishing her his depleted Redbreasts

                                                                                              Whasup

Are you gonna let her dominate your time?

Shes too small to dominate

That’s not what I mean.

                         There’s othe . .

. . Others  Women   Who woud like to dominate my timeIve talked withem  Past few gatheringsthank you  Ive talked withem end on end

Fresh blood  Yaknow

What’s the attraction?

    You invited her

It would have been poor manners to invite her friends and leave her out, they were together.

Good thing you exhibited good manners

                                              She a kickIm diggin her

Really?

Ja

I wouldn’t have thought her your type.

 

She’s not your type.

    You know my  type

Our typ . .

. . Stop

         Speak for yourself

Then I will.

Please

She’s . . slight.

Slight

         More

More?

Yes

      Youre being instructive  Im all ears

You know what I mean.

I do

         But I want to hear you admit it

For what purpose?

Likely the same purpose you asked me for a moment

                                                          Why make an assumption when you can say Unmistakably

    She’s not well-endowed.

No  Neither am I 

                       Though amply sufficient

                

 

Our type.

No

Usually.

Shes mentioned it  Its a pool party an allthank you

 

She . . brought it up?

Ja

     Dug it

She said her breasts are humble

                                        An with tha  Excuse me   Im gonna take these Breasts out there

If youll inform the others  Well yak later

    At my leisure

                     Thanks

 

after 2PMishmash, Saturday,  21  6. 25

1231,  Thursday,  26  6. 25

Shakira  Whenever, Wherever  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaxvTmyKZzw 

Hoeky motherfucker.

                       glared directly at him

Piece of shit  he thought

                           Don know me from Adam

then interrupted himself

                           H  O  E – K  Y  or  H  O – K  E  Y not tha it made much difference

still had to contend with the cunt

nodded to him

                A moment please Ill be right with you he went to his iPhone punched in H O E K Y

found

        overly sentimental  mawkish  No

                                                synonyms

mushy  No

goopy  Hardly

cloying  Unlikely

melodramatic  Never

maudlin  On rare fuckin occasions

corny  His kidbrother  not him

obviously contrived to win popular appeal or support  Thad be a cold day in Hell

phony or is tha P H O N E Y phoney baloney   No ones met a truer being  scars vouched

put his phone back in his jacket pocket zipped it closed

    I think you have me confused with somebody else

I’m talkin’ to you . . motherfucker.

Well then  Thas tha isnt tha

    reaching for him  an ugly smile spreading over his face

                                                              quicker

a headbutt spread his nose over his face

                                           staggering backward hit him again left cross to the temple that threw him bodily into stools peopled and not

                                                lotsa blood

glanced about the immediate bar for cohorts  no one moving towards him

                                                                              lotsa abrupt vocals

women screamed

                   probably blood on their clothing

remedy with cold water immediately

                                       hed like to stick around for the wet blouse contest but running no tab gulped his Guinness Gawdawful shame  split flipping his hood up over his head walking like a frog couldnt reliably say his height or girth

                                 He was just some fuckin’ dude, officer.

if in fact cops were called

0013,  Thursday,  26  6. 25

1046,  Thursday

Pink Floyd  Dogs of War  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W7klssQ38Q

    pestered

                 before he went to sleep     pestered

pullchain operation of the light in his head failed  then frustrated  YANKing it  broke it

                                                                                           Faack

then

       late night coffee which usually doesnt affect him affected himmight have influenced the frustrated YANK

pestered

         made for a restless night

which is not to say it wasnt entertaining

                                            character Jack Taylor  Ken Bruens creation  remarked

. . . a slight trophy to the collection of oddments from an odd time.

were oddments a real thing he thought madeup “a random collection of things . . . mishmash of leftover items.”

    Ohbrother  sounded like his life

he scribbled it on a clipboard he kept beside himself while he read in bed before sleeping

under it he wrote  odd looks niice

                                      beneath it

OD’d. No.   Simple  odd

                            oddment appeared on page 44

pickedup his red BIC pen again wrote

                                          of course  44  odd looks niice  doubled numbers letters 

the things he put up with to entertain himself because no one was there to entertain him

                                                                                     his fault

he preferred entertaining himself since a kid because people couldnt keepup

he had to explain jokes

                             tedious

tedious    synonym  pestered

                                    recognising yet another versus in them

 

he finally broke out when he had a conversation with a voice in his head

Please  No more skulls to suck an chew

You don’t care for the soft nougat center?

I do  You know I do

Then why?

A fella can get spoiled

                         Too much of a good thing

Fucksakes. That makes perfect sense.

Boyo  it does

 

    cracked an eye

the sky out the window was lightening

he didnt bother to learn the timelook at the clock

2316,  Wednesday,  25  6. 25

0013,  Thursday,  26  6. 25

0925,  Thursday

Please please  Shall we not go therelets not

                                                  Youll not like my answers

You don’t believe in Jesus Christ.  You don’t believe in God.

You don believe me  Ive already said

                                          A bug crawlup your ass

You understand my religion obliges me to try to save you from eternal damnation.

Is it eternal  Or infinite

                         Theyre virtually the same   However  Rhetorically   Eternal plays better

Im sure it was polled

Polled?

 

   You heard me

You believe theres a radical schism differentiation between religion an politics  games  if you happen to believe they are different  tha people play

I don

       No versus there

Same same

There’s a lot of people who would disagree with you.

No doubt  As is their right

                                As is my right to keepanhave for myself

Church Id attend if I had to

    Oh.  So you do allow yourself to consider . . . church?

Religion   Politics    Philosophy

                                    Sure

I think you’re going to give me a dishonest answer.

Are people who begin their own churches being dishonest

                                                              Ya cant deny there are startup churches

 

Good    Nothing

                    Ill take nothing as acquiescing to that proposition

 

The Church of Saint Mattress

OhmyGod.

Isnt too blasphemous

    I understand Hes got a wicked sense of humour

Black humour at tha

afternoon,  Monday,  16  6. 25

1955,  Wednesday,  25  5. 25

Cryo Chamber  Daydream Sequence  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WCAfn_qZ0

when things begin to tumble he sidestepsem rather than try to outrunem

                                                                              case in point  film  Prometheus

Meredith Vickers  Weyland Corporation representative  played by Charlize Theron

she tried to outrun the Engineer ship

Did   Not   Go   Well   For   Her

    his nemesis

Versus

              somebody oughta write script  make the film

thered be a lot of squished participants

                                                 like bugs

he wasnt a squisher

                       Are you kiddin’ me?you’re take an ant outside to free it?

I coudbe babe  a latent Buddhist

Ya can call me Budd-y

 

    sawem comin

                      stepped aside

began with the hotlycontested Reason vs. Excuse

hot on its heels

                  Needs vs. Wants

then

       Genius vs. Insanity

these

        he bases on the premise of a continuum (that bends either up or down)  their extremes near each other

       could cite the emotional Classic  the razorthin difference between Love and Hate

how quickly brokenLove can become Hate

                                              however he writes hate like he writes evil

placeholders for dislike  bad

hes famousrenown for those who know him for hates placeholder

                                                                 I dislike with extreme prejudice

YUP

       Was time to get out of Dodge for a bit until things cool down

    Arent you  Dodge

Who asked you

                     fuckin Mariachis

2016,  Monday,  23  6. 25

1214,  Wednesday,  25  6. 25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YO1WHXxZng 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAvDKOaTRFA

 

obliterated

felon

no Nobel

1656,  Wednesday,  25  6. 25

OHKahRist thas hilarious

I almost died.

he imagined she did

                      was a straitlaced gal dyed-in-the-wool blanchedblushed when he said something offcolour  which was often  he was famous for it  no waitinhe was at a sudden in peoples faces

upset some

was a strategy

                 offend the one youre with

offended  theyd try to offend him  cold day in hell  awfullythick-fuckinskinned

                                                                                      he explained

By offending well arrive far sooner at what we agree

big sighs big shrugs

                       confirmation

                                                                                        

 

You went to your usual massage place

empathetic Yes.

                 It’s been very successful. They brought in some new masseuses masseurs.

Messieurs  French

Funny. They’re Vietnamese.

Vietnam was under French rule for a long time

                                                 Colonialism  White man stomping indigenous people  Civilising Missions

The Man must come from tha shit

    made a face I don’t know what you’re talking about.

You ought to read history world history

                                          Coud work the bugs out of our thinking should we choose to think

I’ll take your word for it.

Yashoudnt

                But I digress

Your Vietnamese massagers

Ohbrother.

Not a fan

I understand.

                Nobody touches you unless you want them to.

Got tha right sister

My usual masseuse wasnt there, they only had a man available, I could come back in three hours.

So I pulled the trigger I needed a massage.

Whenever I hear need I hear want

                                     A versus episode

Please.

    he shaddup her story

The receptionist told me Dong would be out in a moment.

                                                               Dong? I asked.

Dong. He be right out. Take room. Disrobe.

I like she knew disrobe

                           Not a term used often enough

Your story

I asked again, Dong?

Yes, ma’am.  Dong.

Ya wanted a massage  No dong

if looks could kill

                 So I went to the room, took off my clothes, it dawned on me.

Don.  I was so relieved.

    You do understand

Understand?

Dong is a Vietnamese mans name

Is it?

Is

        Everyone we know Im tellin you paidwere massaged  by a dong

he was damn confident Pantone hadnt a name for the colour she turned    

after 2PMishmash,  Saturday,  14  6. 25

1059,  Wednesday,  25  6. 25

he took the keys from her unlocked her door opened it for her

                                                                  Can we imagine were at your doorstep now Hallie

she smiled  crazedkiller dimples

                                     Please.

she made him feel very highschoolish

 

 

Well talk soon

she was flush

                I’ve no doubt.

he helped her into the car quietlypushed the door shut  she rolled the window down  he kissed once more

Drive safely beautiful

I will.

         engine started

she lookedup at him smiled softly

                                      Good night.

G’night

she put the car into gear crawlingup the long driveway she glanced at him through the rearview waved through the open window

he waved chuckled

                     waved  until she went left out of sight behind the trees Buddy did say he lived in a forest

his chuckle made sense

                          her car was immaculate  but right of the license plate was a bumper sticker usually thought them gauche  Make Lying Wrong Again  

Methin . .

. . Methinks

              Thas mine

Methinks yawoudnt mind

felt like he sneered

                     Wha

Methinks your goose is cooked

Hows tha Romeo

    Bumper sticker  Rightup your alley

Ja Aint it the truth

An nothing but the truth

Truedat

A romance has begun

he smiled

             a deer blithelystepped onto the drive not ten metres from himbegan to crosspaused  held her erect gazed at him

                      he said Ceryneian Hind

    Heracles  Methinks not a labour

No no amused

                 I am lookin forward to it

    

afternoon,  Saturday,  14  6. 25

0946,  Wednesday,  25  6. 25