zero-dark-hunred hours is how the military ascribes it

in accord his was zero-dark-threehunredfortysix hours and it occurred  --  as his wiccan girlfriend informed him  --  within reach of the witching hour

                           Ohyah he told her thats exactly what I need in my life Consort with witches divining exotic potions cackling erotic chants and manifesting black magic ooze

I thought bugs tormented me buzzing my head and ears

No she says likely they were witches

Harlots on wings says I

I figure I have options 
I can either throw em off my scent or I can try to upstage them 

he blew fresh-brewed coffee into the clinging dark into their sinuses and alongside it casually sipped at a tumbler of whisky and soda on the rocks a wee bit of an early morning smokescreen liquid Romulan cloaking devises

he held out hope that together the beverages might reinvent his tactless cruel early morning

                                                                         Yaknow he thought

slip it a mickey

throw it a curve

Didnt see that comingdidja?!

A veritable Dr Jekyll meets Mr Hyde

Mr. Hyde  Mr. Hydeplease

                      put your cane away

Mr. Hyde would you please put your cane away immediately  now  NOW!

                                                            ---   apparently Mr. Hyde is a compulsive 

if he put his cane down his bludgeoning cane away then much like Thor setting aside his hammer he may feel his animation and power diminish  

what man in his right head or his incapacitated mind wants to feel his strength ebb lessen or come undone

his cane put away his animus squeals and takes off to the underbrush leaving him feeling emasculated effeminate

and while Dr Jekyll assembles a dandy perhaps remains unaffected by Hydes plight Jekyll is prone to sharp frocks

and waistcoats their complement haberdashery silk stockings affects and finery

Hyde  he wouldnt be caught dead in such getups

they would incentivise his base immoral outrage   ---

and what does any of this have anything to do with him as he tries to dissuade and offset his possible near-bewitched be-bitched Hour 

he couldnt say

all these supplementary actions occurred behind his eyes  

he watches  keenly watches them devolve as if he were in a cheap penny arcade where they flickered defined in dull silver bars sheer white stark black silent–film footage befit yesteryears matinees

he halfexpected whiteface or blackface commentary in clever theatrical bubbles at the edges 

everyone not who-they-are but who-are-they

Hyde was waving his bludgeoning cane above his head again

there was matter on it

before he could ascertain what matter

Hyde took it down and then like a dog ran off with it to its secret place hidden from prying eyes and lapped it lapping it as if it were his cock after coupling with a bitch and tied she dragged him around by it until he was dizzy and dizzily he laid contently lapping the bitchs liquor . . .    

something was in the air this morning

it was entertaining

it consumed his attention

and consuming it it also ate the pain that usually distracted him twisting his thinking

hmm   but maybe this was nothing more than a new hyperUsual fueled for all intent and purposes by a bastard Irish coffee

Stevenson was Scottish

he hoped that wouldnt offend him

and ifn it did

tough

he was ded

                                                                                        strangemorning

        

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0845,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  8  6. 16

Dorothy  After Midnight  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7DYCvCDeU8

 

he plucked wild grass and weeds out from around the apricot seedlings that grew under a mature tree where they fell randomly or were buried by squirrels

stored for the fall

squirrels are an industrious lot

the original Johnny Appleseed

buryers of acorns and walnuts

enthusiastic chiders second-to-none if you happened to find yourself under a tree where they are feeding or deftly gathering

he tended a petite grove of sixteen called them his Sweet Sixteen

he hoped the gophers underground would give him a pass this year

last year they gnawed the roots of every one but three

those three he called his Stalwart

their fortune or survival odds he considered as not-necessarily-survival-of-the-fittest perhaps survivors-of-the-fattest-gopher-who-prematurely-called-his-dinner-quits

his daughter questioned his extensive use of the hyphenated subjects  called them caffeinated hyphens

which he drolly corrected  No  Thats caffiend hyphens

Yes  I often forget your need to create new words to serve your peculiar tastes your very peculiar taste in everything odd

Odd?  Pray tell

Stop  Odd  Where shall I begin  Calf brains You ate my science project . . .

. . . with eggs I thought you and your mother were being sweet to me It was near my birthday

Yeah

Sweet                                                                                                                                   

Calf brains beef tongue oxtail kidneys heart liver

What are you Chinese
Eat anything on the planet that walks flies swims or burrows

What wont you eat?

How do you know youre not going to like something if you dont try . . .

. . . I do
I was unnerved when you told Grandma youd eat human flesh if it was a matter of survival  Talk then was members of the rugby team who survived the plane crash in the Andes

And she said shed rather die than eat human flesh

And you said Great! That means theres more for me to eat

Squirrel porcupine snake

You ate rattlesnake

You made it look so damn delicious  Smacking your lips  Nibbling it fresh off the barbecue

It was wasnt it

It was  Yes  You fed me pork rinds

I hate that I love pork rinds

Jesus dad

Theres nothing you wouldnt eat

Thats not true  Actually there is

What

Me . . . Id be dead so I couldnt eat me

See

Then theres your impossible awkward green thumb

Things that by all means shouldnt grow but you take it upon yourself to tend them and they grow defying what common sense would dictate

Not if you love it  Not if you care for it  Let it know its wanted

If it had a brain

No  It need only be animate  All living things know care  Provided for cared for they flourish

Handfeeding wild pigs feral cats A mangy one-eyed three-legged cat

They have my undying respect

Anything disadvantaged is worth advantaging

They have to work harder

They dont know entitlement

Theyre my kind of earthlings

Earthlings dad  Earthlings

Earthlings

It comes back to ya  it comes back to ya babe  

No doubt dad   I can see that 

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