Moliere

         Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

to keep in mind  Moliere was comedic

                                         though what could be funnier that when he died 17 February 1673 actors had no social standing and had been excommunicated by the Church a cruel joke by a Joke

therefore no priest would hear Molieres confession 

but hadnt he truly confessed what he needed or sought to confess in his plays and writings    

he believed he had

according to French law talk about jokes Moliere also couldnt be buried in consecrated earth

King Louis XIV the Sun King le Roi Soleil interceded on behalf of Moliere and he was interred in Cemetery Saint Joseph

King Louis  Frances absolute monarch  was Molieres patron

                                                                 the kings Absolutism apparently held for Moliere

not to get lost in the weeds talking of humour being pigeonholed is a kind of perverse humour Louis the Fourteenth a king preceded by thirteen other Louises

                                          which isnt to be confused with several women who are named Louise multiple women also Louises Louises or LouisesWhat confusion? during the Age of Reason women didnt have souls  apparently or legendarily the Synod of Macon in 585 “denied that women had a soul” gee  women could share one soul

there were lusty debates humourous he thought they hairsplit homo the Latin word homo primarily means “human being” but also means “adult male”  

Johannes Leyser a Lutheran pastor got his panties in a bunch touting polygamy in his Polygamia Triumphatrix -- looks like fun  meet ya in the pantry --  “Among the holy fathers there was one who insisted that women cannot, and should not be called ‘human beings’ (viz. homines “men”).” Pastor Leyser essentially quoted St. Gregory of Tours his book The History of the Franks frankly -- humour  

                                        “There came forward at this council a certain bishop who maintained that woman could not be included under the term 'man.' However, he accepted the reasoning of the other bishops and did not press his case, for the holy book of the Old Testament tells us that in the beginning, when God created man, 'Male and female he created them and called their name Adam', which means earthly man; so, he called the woman Eve, yet of both he used the word 'man'."

                        comedic splitting hairs

apparently Moliere succeeded with the Sun King by having the good senseexhibiting good sense humour not to proselytise but rather to animate the absurd

absurd lends itself to a kind of funny

Hell it was absurd he found himself reading Molierequoting him to help him offset the stress he suffered because of his daughter and mother deaths 

                               who died because of their illnesses

                 they did not have remedies

                                                perhaps because they werent men    

1358,  Sunday,  31  5. 20

1155,  Saturday,  6  6. 20

The Kinks  Lola  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU

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1026,  Saturday,  6  6. 20

they were having a riproaring time stoned caffeinated now sipping beer on the backporch and eating wasabi rice crackers  broken sunlight coming through the crown of an enormous live oak

It occurred to me I was talking with my brother my earliest memories are associated with pain my first memory before I was two I wasnt even walking yet I fell out of bed and split my chin on its illfitting metal frame I laid on my back on the hardwood floor I could feel my blood warm oozing on my chestdown the sides of my neck  

Jesus.

That was nothing compared to the doctor stitching it closed No painkillers My father wrapped one arm around my bodyholding me real tight With his free hand he held the top of my head pulling it back jutting my chin so the doctor could stitch it I still remember his sleep-rheumy eyes his bad breath as he breathed in my face Nine stitches Of course

Of course?

Nines my favorite number It might have started right then and there My lucky number nine

Before you were two? You can remember before you were two?

I asked my folks Asking made my Dad uncomfortable Why would you remember that, Joe? my Dad askedhas asked every time I bring it up I dont bring it up much not no more its been confirmed I use my parents to confirm my early memories to be sure I wasnt making them up or dreamed them

Theyre memories

Fixed by pain

An you

Memories?

Yes

My earliest memories?

Yes

School. First, probably second grade.

Not kindergarten

Definitely not kindergarten.

Mrs Shot Older Short hair Silver Mrs Shot was my kindergarten teacher

You remember your kindergarten teacher’s name. That’s nuts.

Long memory Teed up by pain

What was it you remember from first grade

I think it was second.

Second

Yeah.

Werent we seven in second grade

Six, then seven. I turned eighteen February of my senior year, before graduating.

Okay  So six

Closer to seven.

What

My brother, a year younger than me, broke a window while we were playing catch at a neighbor’s. We lied. We said it wasn’t us.

Did you say it was someone else

Never occurred to us. We felt like criminals.

And

And we were seen. And the hardball had my name on it. We had to replace the window, pay for it.

And

That’s it. Me and my brother disappointed my Dad.

You didnt get a strap across your fanny for lying

No. He told us he was deeply disappointed.

No strap belt hand No real punishment

We disappointed my Dad.

Man thats gettin off easy

It didn’t feel easy.

Thats gettin off easy

What did your brother say about his memories, his earliest memory?

He said it was when he wondered who the hell I was I wasnt Thensuddenly I was Which I understood Were not a year apartso much for the break women are provided now sex after childbirth  doctors orders

You were his earliest memory?

Yah Hes always believed he was born first but he walked before I did I remember ballingcrying when my ball got away from me a goofy clown ball like a clowns head I made such a stink I think I compelled him to get up walk an fetch it for me so Id shaddup

Jeez, that’s remarkable.

Yah That put his first memory around a year old He says thats his earliestbut he couldnt say what his next memory might have been

Actually  thinking  before the split chin I split my eyebrow My grandparents babysat me and I pulled an end table over on top me I took its corner above my left eye

Got my left hand slammed in the car door at three I was in the back seat We were going to a drive-in I was dressed in my pajamas

Fell down the tall wood front porch steps and broke my arm

I thought kids were supposed to be bendy

I wasnt

Jesus.

And then the hit parade just kept coming

Man, oh, man.

Ready for another beer

Yeah.

Im still pretty stoned

Nice shit, huh?

Yah Thank you for sharing

reaching across his brotherinlaw for the beer bottle his brotherinlaw said What the hells that?

What

Top of your right hand.

a pale white circular scar

That

That’s a scar?

Yup

From what? Curious location, between your index and the next finger.

I got shot with a nailgun Youll remember I dont like nailguns Not when yagot a hammer

You shot you?

No I dont like nailguns I was accidentally shot by a carpenter I was paired with Muthafucker loved nailguns But he would he was a lazy bastard Redhead bushy red moustache He was usually drunk by three

I didnt wanna work with im

I wasnt asked if I would

I was told

Two man job

I was holding sticks for a skylight descending into the diningroom

He hit a knot knot deflected the nail Started bleeding all over like a stuck pig

I made it to a MedStop by myself

You drove yourself?

Evidently nobody could be spared Actually I wasnt spared until I couldnt stop the bleeding

Made a mess of my steering wheel and front seat

At the MedStop the doc determined I was shot through the hand

he rolled his hand over and showed his brotherinlaw the exit scar in his palm Nuts huh

And you didn’t fuck up your hand?

Nope Doc said he couldnt believe He probed it Clean through Slick as a whistle

when he returned with fresh cold bottles of beerhanded one to his brotherinlaw he said  I hated working with idiots  Good carpenters Fucking idiots

Could you imagine these clowns around you with a power drill  

With my luck working with one hed stick me in the head with a spinning bit an Id have to arrest drillgun with one handelbow him hard in the face so hed let go Hafta leave the drillbit in my headhold the gun up cuz likely they wouldnt have sense to reverse it if they were to try to back it out

JESUS! What a fucking thought!

YahHa Pith me once shame on you pith me twice shame on me

Oh fuck!

Tellin ya man Im really stoned

1643,  Friday,  29  5. 20

1142,  Reggae Friday,  5  6. 20

he helped her escape over the wall

                                     then helped her escape back in

he didnt mind boosting her out

she promised she wouldnt wear panties under her skirts 

                                                             her promises were gold

it was a little tougher snaking her back in timing  avoiding detection

but they were the better detectorists

they were enthused compelled

those who manned the walls

a gig for a simpleton

who can take orders

passion crushes those who arent

                                    those who arent crossing Is or dotting Ts 

it wasnt a competition

he only had one bone to pick with her   

the boy she was withwho they shared their bed with

he stayed on with him while she was away Please she asked   he couldnt deny her anything

so dutifully he sharedbecause he felt the lil muthafucker might rat him out   

he shared “their” bed Man Yakeep to your side I keep to mine

he pouted 

You’re mean. You’re not like that when she’s here

No Im not Because shes here Shes between us  Only occasionally do your arms grow longer than they are

You better be nice to me.

I am nice to you

Then nicer, there’s something in it for you.

Whas in it for me is keeping you because you please her too An I want her happypleased

Something else.

I suppose well see

she went Out an In Out an In   Out an In months

over those months he began to notice changes in the boy

                                                             an as the boy changedthe more receptive he was  to share “their” bed with him

he began as she said Evolve 

the boy began to feminise

subtle changes

in hisher face

in hisher body

that was what was in it for him

one day he boosted her took in her spread legsher spread pussy she locked out her elbows held herself up held herself etched against the buttermilk moon behind her 

she looked down at him 

                          You know he’s how I began  You knowdon’t you?

Hurry back baby That you knew how heshe was evolving feminising  it wasnt a lame guess

she smiled I will hurry. I know our bed is evolving. I don’t want to miss when you’re all in.

all in

something must have happened

she didnt return 

she didnt despite her promise to hurry

heshe evolved

she perfected

she knowing him as well as she did   seduced him

then  one evening she asked him if hed help her escape

                                                           asked him to help her escape back in

then  later  after planning to go over the wall again soon   she brought a boy to their bed and asked if he could stay with them

            stay in their bed

he  he couldnt deny her anything

0656,  Thursday,  29  5. 20

1434 or 234,  Reggae Friday,  5  6. 20

Aerosmith  Train Kept a Rollin’  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EvGn22Mplg

his daughter laid in bed she was a captive audience

she knew it

he knew it

hed always taken advantage of his children  no matter how old they got that was his right he was their father  unfortunately their mother wasnt there to try to protect them  she would have tried

he would have went over the top of her

she could placate her daughters all she wanted

he saw things through different eyes an he let themhis wife his daugfhters know  let them know exactly how he saw things 

they could like it or lump it

they were adults
                   an as adults he didnt pull his punches why would he  he raised his daughters to be adults not to hide behind their Mommies skirt
who the fuck would respect that

they had two legs to stand on

challenge away

he wasnt holding his tonguesparing their feelings
                                                     no more than he would spare any adult

his mother took exception They’re your daughters.

Youre my mother I dont spare you Why would I spare them . .
. . They’re your children, your daugh . .
. . An aint a soul walking the planet who knows me better than they

Ill treat them in the manner that I wantthat I always have  I didnt raise pussies

My Lord, Joe, the way you talk.

I talk point blank I dont mince words

They’re your daughters.

All the more reason I didnt spare them

his daughter couldnt escape

she was at his mercy

she knew he didnt have mercy

he struck a pose
                   Yasee

she nodded 

Good  Yanoticed

she shook her head Yes and then No  I’m not following, Dad.

Think Jesus  Crucifiction   thats how he referred to it   fiction

Ahshe nodded
                 she didnt align herself with Christianity

See My heads up  Im shining   Im unbeaten

she nodded  I follow.

My heads not fallenlolling down on my chest submissive

she fixed him a moment He’s dead on the cross, Dad; dead.

Roger he saidhe winked  Roger Over an out

Baby can you tell me whywhy anybody would follow someone who was submissive

1638,  Friday,  25  1. 19
1318,  Thursday,  4  6. 20

he stood pat  

she was late 

               but she had a three miles walk to meet him at the coffee shop  they usually got to spend better than an hour before he had to be at work  

all he had to do was catch a bus come to town then walk five blocks 

he entertained and distracted himself during his walk with those characters who also disembarked from the bus depot the homeless pushed out of shelters by seven the panhandlers and the youthful panhandlers who were playing the Im homeless game
                 among those he cultivated one adversary who threatened to kick his assthreatened to assembly a gang – never happened -- to beat him senseless   

that was his fault

                   though he liked to think he was provoked  he wasnt usually rude

the panhandler was aggressive maybe that worked for himmaybe he was able to intimidate donations 

he told him he was barking up the wrong tree

If youre hungry as you say you are he eyed the guys dog  it wore a brandnew red bandanna around its throat he didnt much like dogs then Id suggest you eat your dog  He looks like hed be good for a couple of weeks of meals       

he laughed at his joke ofcourse he would it tickled him to tell the punk something he probably didnt know allegedly William Randolph Hearst said WHO? William Randolph Hearst he owned the castle on US 1 heading out of Cambria allegedly he said Give me a magazine cover with a beautiful girl, a dog, or a baby on it, and I’ll give you a magazine that sells.” 

             although his recollection might be somewhat sketchy altered suffered by shrooms he ate in the Heartbreak Hotel in Missoula Montana  the quote appeared on the cover somewhat perverted by National Lampoon whose function was to lampoon American culture Right. What’s lampoon? Fuckin look it up

the kid hopped around him menacingly drawing attention to himself the dog barked but the kid wasnt interested in getting his nose brokenjaw broken or was his dog interested in getting thrown over the wrought iron fence into the swift running creek beneath the intersection

maybe the kid thought panhandling adjacent to the Mission would soften people up

he was atheist

God and His bleeding heart cohorts could feed the kid  and his dog

he looked at the illuminated clock on the wall

she wasnt going to make it

he bought a cup of coffee and walked out the door

the shops manager followed him out the door  Excuse meshe said excuse me excuse me

he didnt think the voice was calling to him so he crossed the street

Excuse me!

he was almost startled  but he was aware of someone at his back

reaching the sidewalk so they wouldnt be in the street he turned to her  Yes

I ah  I wanted you to know that I’ve had some complaints about you and your ah  friend.

Complaints

Yes.

Shes not my friend  Shes my girlfriend

I know that.

Yes I know you know Youve been serving us nearly every weekday morning the past month or better

Yes.

What complaints

P – D – A.

P D A

Yes.

Simply yes

Well, yes.

Youll have to excuse me I dont know what P D A is

one would have thought he asked her to show him her tits not that he would be opposed to seeing them she was endowed she was likely the reason so many business men downtown went there for coffee a blouse isnt worn at halfmast in the morning like a bartenders blouse at night if it isnt wore to trump up business  com’on

she blushed

the colour looked good on her

he smiled 

he tried to disarm her embarrassment

                                         an embarrassment that she suffered for him

he never let his ignorance embarrass him

                                            he was always willing to learn something newthe error of his ways

PDA.

Repeating it over and over isnt telling me anything

You really don’t know? You’re not teasing me?

I despise acronyms Yawant me to know what your customers complaints are then you need to spit it outBut before you do as an issue which particularly gripes me Why didnt they approach me

I don’t know why they didn’t approach you. That said, PDA means, public display of affection.

he howledsplit a gut

she stood there listening to him witnessing his evident humour

when he finally gathered himselfcomposed him to speak he said If those complaints continue you tell them you said something  An then tell them I said if they have an issue with my affections they can approach me an say so 

Fuck em

he smiled at her Thank you for advising metelling me something I did not know Ive learned something new today If we dont learn something new every day then were not living right Thank you

she returned his smile

If I didnt say so this morning that’s a handsome blouse  Im a big fan

1636,  Friday,  25  1. 19

1419,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  3  6. 20

Aerosmith  Walk This Way  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c8O2n1Gfto