his personnel jacket as he was told by his last superior in hierarchy-only
was blue and he frankly couldnt understand how
it was he hadnt been fired numerous timeshe emphasised numerous
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she was rare earth
No. They make me feel uncomfortable.
You’re being ridiculous.
My discomfort is ridiculous?
Yes.
Oh. That makes me feel warm and fuzzy. You
want to know what else is ridiculous?
Please.
It’s ridiculous you bought it
without talking to me first.
I’ve always wanted one, you’ve
known that; so I pulled the trigger.
I would have thought you would have
been more considerate, that you would have asked me what I thought.
It was a great sale price, I
saved us lotsa money.
You would have saved us more by not
buying it.
he reddened he thought She pregnant.
he answered But I did.
then he left the room She
can stew for all I care.
the screen had on-line
access You don’t have to leave the
livingroom for your computer if you don’t want to, it’s right here. thats what he said when he honestly tried to
sell her on it . . after he mounted it while she was out
she lactated prodigiously
her mother had too so she
suspected she might
she fed the baby and then used her
pump to express her milk
she had left the cable on
he was onscreen as she stood and
left the room to lay the baby down
she was so engrossed feeding that
she didnt notice him watching her
he had watched her before
when she left the livingroom he excused
himself Where are you going? his onscreen
love interest asked him he had disrobed
her according to script and held her from behind
Ill be back a bit he walked towards the screen
I know what you’re doing, you shouldn’t
do that.
he paused turned aside
You should say I shouldnt do that . . again then
turning back to his intention he looked down to make sure he wouldnt upset or step
on anything in the livingroom when he stepped out
he crossed the threshold which
led to the hallway where she had taken the baby he could hear her straightening up Ah gathering up laundry
on the wall diagonal from the
screen where he crossed was a large recliner behind it an ample bookcase between the recliner and the hallway entrance
were several tall potted plants
he sat in the recliner
looking on the screen he saw Lee
had come up to the screenplaced her hands on it
pressed her breasts ever-so-slightly against it
he saw the screen ever-so-slightly
bulge beneath her pressure
Lee looked at him
he beckoned her
as she began to lean to retrieve
it her eye caught Lee at the screen she
halted then stood erect
from the side her attitude
betrayed her interestcuriosity at the naked woman on the screen
she dropped the laundry stepped
to the screen she placed her hand on the
screen opposite Lees
she wasnt startled when Lee
intertwined her fingers with hers and as
Lee emerged through the screen she helped her step down
Lees handthe back of her hand
brushed the womans nipple milk budded Lee hand continued inside her blouse and held
her by her ribcage
in that attitude Lee stepped
closer intimately delicately she placed her nipple at the womans they
both sighedsighed like the breath of a soft wind through Fall maple sapling
leaves
for Lees first time out she was marvelouspossibly magnificent
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Nature’s Basics almonds
tasty
he fingered the single-serve
packagesingle-serve
always pissed him off
Net Wt: .75 OZ
(21g) Oforcryinoutloud yakiddinme
Certainly sounded like something.
Awright Yaknow what an epiphany is
No, Grampa.
I had an epiphany
What is an ei . . epie . how . .
how’d you say it?
Epiphany
Yeah, what you said.
Ill write it down for you after
lunch and you can ask your parents
Okay, Grampa. she was happy to return to her lunch he had interrupted her
.75 OZ 21g meant an ounce was 28g simple fucking
math
why didnt he know his simple math
when he was in college selling grass and hash escaped him he weighed 30g on his scale and called it an
ounce
meybe theyhis customers supposed
he was . . generous he did have steadfast legions he may have been short on occasioncouldnt dole
an ounce but he always sent them off with a couple of joints on the house
he didnt like addictions
he was hotwiredwas wetsealed
with emotions
sometimes we need our distance
from them
they can be implacable tyrannically
we need our room
he was going to Chicagoland to be
with his sister
she was dying
his brother-in-law called and
told him to comeNOW. Yesterday. I’m sorry.
the plane was in a holding
pattern over Lake Michigan
he looked out the cabin window
Will we go round in circles he said to himselfqueued it in the MP3 player
he borrowed so he could listen to music while reading during the long flight Im tryin baby Im tryin Just our luckhuh
he didnt see other aircraft
lights either above or below
Will we go round in circles
he only had carry-on and made a
beeline to the cab stand
a ninety dollar ride not even a kiss he didnt
tip him
he piled in through the front
door as his brother-in-law opened it
his sister was comatose a couple
hours
their last words were during a phone
call on the weekend
they listened to each other cry
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What are you fucking talking about?
Hey
Gentle
Im pretty stoned
Yeah. Me too. But I aint talking
like you; what are you talking about?
Well, radio personalities appear
on television too.
I wouldnt know Have you seen her before on television
Yes.
No shit
No shit.
Well I havent Makes her a kind of hybridhuh
Hybrid. Yes, I suppose you can
say that.
I just did
Man, she’s really got your
panties in a bunch.
She does because shes done herself no favours appearing on screen
How do you mean?
I think, stoned, you’re being hypercritical.
No
Oh really, no?
No
What do think?
I think she looks better on the
radio
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the NAs made them care less
unable to disclose his treatment they
also couldnt disclose the cellophane-wrapped grapeflavoured condoms they fed
him because he demanded prophylactics
fingering the wrapper eyeing it they
dazzled him with the pyrotechnics of their professional gibberish wit and
intellect
he wouldnt know the wordsknow
what they meant though he would act asif he did – as stable geniuses do – they knew
they were treating a gullible child who wouldnt ask questions rather just demanded
their concern regarding possible
psychiatric effects of their treatmentfeelings of grandiosity and mania or even
delirium and psychosis they believed would be minimal or at least no
different than the president experienced every day
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flashlight tag
during Summertime Summer vacation
the game took on a whole new
meaning one evening when playing with Sally Fortier
sure they knew they were going to piss off their
parents for using their flashlight whoevers
theyd get the speech You’re
wasting batteries. A flashlight is meant to be played with, it’s not a toy. asif they just couldnt come out and say Don’t touch it, it’s not yours.
it wasnt like they were bumming the
heart Christiaan Barnard used to perform the first human heart transplant
that night Sally ran into her
house not saying anything beforehand and took her parents
that night Sally was
fourteen he was twelve
because it was her fathers
flashlight she was It
she closed her eyes and began counting
to fifty out loud
the neighbourhood kids scurried
to hide
hustling she found all the kids afoot
the kids sat together on the
street curb while Sally found the ones who hid
she found him last hit him with
the flashlight beam he was wayhigh in a neighbours
Dutch Elm on the parkway where he watched the game play out
because he was last found he
became It
but this was different night
he heard her giggling
it wasnt like her to leave hints
following her giggling she lead
him to the remaining hidden kids who cried CHEATER into the night at Sally YOU’RE CHEATING, SALLY, CHEATER. THAT’S NOT FAIR.
when they went out to the street curb
to join the others he caught her giggle again
he followed it up a gangway between
neighbours houses their kids were too young to be out
playing with them
lights burned in their windows
he could hear their voicetheir televisionssee its bluelight flicker on the ceiling
at the rear of the gangway both
houses had stoops wood steps leading up to their back doors
a
soft giggle
he paused listening
where
another
soft giggle
soft
breathing excited
right he determined
under the stoop
he thought to scream as he did
when he found the other kids
he was transfixed his
cock wasnt
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quickly whas
quicklywhas ended he thought of their resolve although that term seemed too muscular to apply to Trump & Co
that while the Republicants have thrown
their hands up in the air an dont grimace while telling lies
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a buddy of his had been calling
it the Trump virus for a couple of months now and he couldnt agree more
seemed his cards had been yanked out laid on the table spreadwide he supposed there was no sense in fighting
them they were stacked against him he had been gamed