the rising sun pricked the tents canopy

the birds roosting in the branches around them bickered and protested raucously(he was sure since Time Immemorial) airing what sounded like bitter or petty differences that enraged and plagued them

they were desperate to get them out spat out of their craws off their chests out of their thin confused skulls

his eye peeled open

                 closed it sensed scarce sunrays lashing the trees backs

he really liked the sound of his voice when he woke in the morning  deeper    gravelly

his girlfriends prompted him that when he woke to wake them and

Talk dirty to me

he got their blood up

their loins slick

hed slip down between their legs and talk loquaciously to them rapt attention to his diphthongs rolling his Rs plying tongue twisters playing with the button over their audio funnel with his thumb fingers and tongue

exquisitely applying his varied cummunication skills

his voice broke as he spoke to his tentmate  HeyUp in Adam

Whaa da fuck did I say(first time he recognised its parcels)

Man  I dont wanna sound homophobic but Id rather be Up in Kaneisha I imagine a morning deity whose skin is caramel brown whose figure harkens the Mother Goddess hips and breasts and black tresses curling on her head and descending like jungle vines over her shoulders to her spine and belly

What are you talking about

Huh

I dont mean to step too hard on your fantasy but it aint up in Adam you ever write it out its up and at em military bravado lingo up and at em get up and get on with your day aint a damn thing about Adam 

No Adam  I thought it was in connexion with being first Man the biblical Adam Adam possessive without need of an s because he owned intuitively everything he rose and entered the Wilderness the Garden its elements partook of the elemental day

Well  you certainly made it your own

I heard it as a kid roused from my sleep on top a heat register in the livingroom My dad put his toe in my ribs Up in Adam boy Move it Those papers aint gonna deliver themselves

No they wouldnt

He didnt have to do it too often

He wasnt gentle banging me in the ribs with his big toe

I suppose that makes sense

Its always made sense to me until you refuted it Corrected it Thanks

Youre welcome

You aint changing it are you

Nah

I really sold myself on Kaneisha      

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he had this crazed look in his eyes which was hard to discern

he was walleyed

he used them separate of each other uncomfortably discordant as if he was playing two hands of TwentyOne at a time excitedly eyeballing his hole cards                                        

then not looking directly at me or maybe he was and I couldnt tell he said
(Ill never forget it)                                              Were dealing with fanatics

and fanatics are always experts

Experts

       What do you call yourself

Call myself Of course Im an expert he said somehow oblivious droll to the content of his prior remark

Expert

Yes

Not a fanatic

No

How is the inverse of what you said not true                    

If a fanatic is always an expert inversely an expert is always a fanatic

Oh not necessarily  A fanatics expertise may be rooted in extreme or hyperbolic beliefs  Those beliefs rather than facts

can be articles of Faith

They are the faithful The Incorruptible

You see

(too tempting  though he balked refused the probably unintended bait) Ah  I appreciate your distinctions

My usual manner is to assume an expert is not someone of Faith 

I would not call a priest an expert

But you can appreciate that those he administers believe he is an expert if not then a learned respected member of the clergy and the Churchs hierarchy

I can appreciate that Though I would not say Faith is upheld by experts

one of his eyes trembled briefly feigning an inside move presenting him unaffected but it teased and lazily rolled back and off a brilliant egg yolk dropped centered in a frying pan slipped off to the side

Yes  A fine thing if experts had to qualitatively prove themselves against their breed

Theyre often mysteriously conferred commuted

And often nefariously

Then questionable

To us perhaps Agreed To their worldview where or how they ascended No

Unassailable experts

Im take no comfort in your words

the other eye parried its mates movement quivered then fuck it and relaxed to its haven

I intended no comfort

Probably why I didnt

Well  This has been vaguely stimulating

I couldnt tell if he was looking at me or not  Informative Thank you

Youre welcome

Much luck with your fanatics

Our fanatics Were tethered

I wish you better luck with your experts

Thank you

walking off perpendicular into the grass away from the park bench they met at and sat on he glanced over his shoulder one last time and caught him admiring two young women in little-left-to-the-Imagination running apparel who approached him on the path before the bench from either side 

he cursed him under his breath  Damn fish  smudged with latent humour

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0817,  Friday,  10  6. 16

The Picture of Dan Patrick

for those who are disinclined to examine life*

or read fiction which is every bit as powerful and enticing and insightful as nonfiction and science

           

for those who havent a peripatetics nervous twitch or their unrestrained nature or desire for gross handfuls and mouthfuls of Mankinds varied and arrayed wild experiences

or who are judgmental

                                  

I unveil and share with you The Picture of Dan Patrick(my indebtedness to Oscar Wilde)

I assume it is well-hidden in his Texas home and thrilled at only by himself when he has been shaken not stirred to a delicious delirium and in such an ecstatic state he invokes he is unresponsible for any irrational or untoward tweet

despite it fervently aligned and resonating with his long-held Old Testament Christian belief    

    

0531,  Monday,  13  6. 16

* Socrates (recorded in Platos Apology): An unexamined life is not worth living