Did you heard that?

What

The sound in the aislewine aisle  of bottles shakingbumping  clattering against each other?

I cant  Not over your voice Cay

Then listen.

I cant hear over you Cay  Ill be happy to listen if youll be quiet

I can do that.

Then  do it

as he listened he watched her face

she watched his

her eyes bulged

he heard what she was hearing  Yes it sounds like bottles bumping each other

It doesdoesn’t it.  

But there’s no one there. There's no one in the store except us.

No  Theres no one there  Its the ghostyou know we have a ghost inhabiting the store Cay

I've heard. It’s creeping me out.

Im sorry its creeping you out  I imagine me being here is of no value or comfort

Nonono! I’d be utterly freaked out if you weren’t here in the store with me. But you’re so nonchalant about it.

I have three ghosts at home  You also know that

But they’re at your house. Certainly a ghost when you come to work is different.

How

It’s not your ghosts.

I think Shakespearemebbe Marlowe said it first an Shakespeare finessed him  a ghost is a ghost is a ghost  How you react to an animal an it senses ityour fear lets say  is how a ghost reacts to you

You really believe that?

Cay  thats been my experience

the bottles clinked again

Cays eyes grew large

he yelled towards the wine aisle Yawanna keep it down  Please

there were a few more desultory lessenthusiastic clinkclanks 

then it stopped

he turned back towards Cay  Understand itll happen again  Dont let the noise get your panties in a bunch

Easy for you to say.

Hes not a threat

He? It’s a he?

I told you Maxwell saw him on the security camera walking beside he an aisle over  Ive seen him be then not be  Maxwell tell you when we left the store two holiday decorations side by side swayed side to side in unison while not six feet from either other papered decorations hung unperturbed  I waved goodbye through the closed door and yelled HAPPY NEW YEAR  How could I be remiss  Wasnt thinkingwasnt being mindful  My bad

You’re giving me the willies.

Willie  A great name   Hes your Willie  Accept him like Gawd an youll be saved your discomfort

It’s not that easy.

It couldnt be easier  Embrace the mysterythe wonder  admittedly an unusual unexpected fortune   Not everyone has a ghost to commune with . .

. . Or is willing to admit it without worrying what someone else might think.

Why would you care what someone else thinks

I do.

I dont  And frankly thats more than half the battle  They cant influence you  Unable to influence you they have to find someone else  Otherwise theyre not influential an seemingly everyone wants that that an notoriety  Id rather be nobodyUlysseus nobody Nobody who tormented Polyphemus the cyclops  When the other cyclops heard from Polyphemus own mouth that Nobody hurt him they didnt interfere  they counseled prayer 

Yawanna be part of their herd

I don’t.

Then dont  Dont care what someone else thinks you ought to do or be  They ought to have their hands full just managing themselves trying to find their asses with both hands

Try not to be frightened by BOO

He hasnt tried that with me

Cay sighed I can’t believe I’m working in a haunted liquor store.

                     

Sunday afternoon,  31  12. 17

1520,  Twosday,  two  1. 18

Hall and Oates  I Can’t Go For That(No Can Do)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccenFp_3kq8

again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccenFp_3kq8

the words

        (No Can Do) begins Easy, ready, willing, overtime/Where does it stop/Where do you dare me/To draw the line

there wasnt a soul he asked who could sayan he asked every customer who came up to the register You remember Hall an Oates I Cant Go For That they did  What couldnt he go for Why no can do What was it that she wanted that he wouldnt do for her

granted he bullrushed thempeople dont think on their feet as well as they once did if they think at all 

vapid expressions

after awhile he found himself asking not for an answer but rather to elicit the hilarious expressions that ensued  faces he thought would be reserved for the privacy of one in their privy

Daryl Hall enthusiastically denied whatever it was that she asked No no no no no no he counted them  six noes  or mebbe he was worried he wouldnt be able to find his way home afterwards

                                                         after what?

he had an array of brashcoloured thoughts most burgeoning from the sexual realm toys buttplug  I wanna be a cowboy you can be my horse Yipee yipee ye  yipee yipee ye yo yo  Ahthe sacred male anus bow deeply before it  asanawa kinbaku ropes an erotic knots she pouts Wear a leather dogcollar out for the night for me baby  Ill make it worth your while

AhS&M

while chewing on that the song also mentions his soul  Use the body/Now you want my soul

just because its fluff pop doesnt mean underlying it it couldnt be sullen acrimonious it couldnt be dangerous it couldnt deceive  murder an mayhem theyre never too far apart 

or some niggling petty things to prove ones love  He looked at me funnygo punch him in the face  What    Dont you love me

did she still love him after he refused to do what she asked

did he still love her after she asked him to do something he couldnt conscience doing

if he flipped the Switch he could do anything

if he disassociated he could do anything

                                 OBLIVIOUSLY she wouldnt have asked him if she believed it was outside the realm of possibility assuming they knew each other well which he believed the song implied  as easily though he may have entirely been off the mark Daryl may have picked her up in a bar and took her back to her place thinking he was gonna get some failing to appreciate that women think of gettin some too  Ahswinging dicks hungry pussies   

                                                                            but instead she killed her maniacal extransgirlfriend and needed his big strong shoulders an arms an back to help dismember the body in the bathtub an haul the meaty bits down the stairs in Heavy-Duty black plastic trash bags

fluff pop is danceable slathered with sweet riffs under nightclub lazerlighting

who really listens to their words

I Can’t Go for That was published ’81

it wasnt until this very evening that he actually listened to its words an heard them

1804,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  3  1. 18

1154,  Friday,  5  1. 18

Blind Faith  Can’t Find My Way Home  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlLBs6YawM

Big Boys Don’t Cry  I Wanna Be a Cowboy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05jcrJw0as