November 22, 1963

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas

he was a boyhe had sat at his grandmothers knee while aunts and uncles collected at her home to watch Senator Kennedy debate Vice-President Nixon in a Chicago studio not far away from them

he walked home from school for lunch but there was no lunch on the kitchen table  his mother was vacuum-cleaning  she was crying

without eating he returned to school and watched on a television wheeled into his classroom as a shaken Walter Cronkite announced President Kennedy died at 1PM Central Standard Time

not something he would ever forget

1606,  Sunday,  22  11. 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4q898h05HQ 

he recited the line “People are treating me as if my vagina’s Pandora’s Box.” 

Damn I wish I wrote that

You wish you wrote that?

You kiddin me its a fantastic line equating a vagina with Pandoras Box Hell as a kid we called girls vaginas boxes Betcha shes got a nice box

he screwed up his facerolled his eyes

                                       Betcha she’s got a nice box? I can’t say I ever thought a girl’s vagina was nice. 

You havent thought a girls pussy was nice

Hell, no.

Yare unbelievable

What?

Man theyre like peaches  Perfect ripe peaches

Yeah. Ripe.

Stop Im talkinbout that perfect peach not too hardnot too soft juicy but not too juicy Though even if it was I wouldnt bitch Id lick my chin

You trying to gross me out?

No Whas to gross you out

You go down on women?

You like women going down on you Like its their sworn dutylike their mammas told them You go down on your man You take him in your mouth and suck him like he was a delicious lollipop

You’re being ridiculous.

Maybe hyperbolic not ridiculous   Answer the question

You’re asking me if I like a woman to give me head?

I am

I do!

      the rapidity of his answerthe exclamationthe enthusiasm was telling  You do

Yes I do.

An youve never given it a thought that a woman would like a man to go down on her  shed get some head as you say Head

Why would I thin . . 

. . Because women are so drastically different from usfrom men Because they dont have a dick that they wouldnt want their pussies sucked and licked and gobbled

                                                Christ man

What a lousy lover youve been

I haven’t had any complains.

Then I donknow wha kind of woman youve slept with 

                                                          Ya get head a lot

No. Not a lot.

 

What?

I didnt say anything

No you didn’t, but you’re expression, the slight shrug of your shoulders . . your eyes, they certainly had something to say.

 

Ya havent wondered why you dont get head a lot

I . . well . I figure they don’t like giving head.

Never occurred to you theres a reciprocation  when you treat a woman like shes a sumptuous banquet shes gonna treat you in kind 

            I know what Im talking about

Yeahwell, I’m not interested in giving a woman head.

Yah Anshe aint interested in giving you head either Maybe the few blow jobs youve gotten were illconceived attempts to have you return the favor An the favor unreturned theyre not so keen to give it a go again  Think   Ya might find the logic in it

Ain’t happening.

Yup It aint 

             Me on the other hand  I gotta be careful I dont suck the marrow out of their bones an kill em  Its a banquet babe an might be not a soul more grateful than me for their hardy participation and affection

Still no matter Head also suggests intelligence anif I refer to you as headless or heedless youll have to forgive me Cant image why such a delicacy doesnt appeal to you

Nevertheless returning to Pandoras Box Unlike the Greeks the Spartans had a high opinion of their women  they wouldnt have assigned the ills and sorrows unleased on the world when Pandora opened the box yet closing it in time to keep Hope  I think she is as badly treated as Eve when regarding her seduction of Adam to take a bite of the apple 

absently tapping his foothe wasnt enjoying the conversationwhat he presumed belittlement

                                                                                                The Spartans were Greek.

Not necessarily Sparta was a city-state governed separate of classical Athens  Not to split hairs but Id call me a Spartan an you a Greek  Were different tribes babe different tribes         

 

1959,  Twosday,  17  11. 20

1303,  Saturday,  21  11. 20

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-was-pandoras-box-118577 

No

pretty simplehe wondered why people had such a difficult time saying  No

he said it a lot

 

Well, not everyone is like you, Joe. his mother would say then true to form for she loved to try and get in the last word You wouldn’t tell your mother no.

                                   a declaration not a question

Yes Maw Id tell you no

                       Ive told you no when you overstep your bounds  she had trouble abiding boundaries other people set  she believed only in hers

she had a lot to learn

and he constantly and consistently taught her

 

No

it was also a courtesy

some people effected silence assuming it said No

he couldnt imagine not saying what he believed

in his life many while having their saygreeted by silence greeted by silent acquiescence became upset with him when he interrupted them

                 asif he were discourteous                 

Youll excuse me please I disagree I didnt want you to assume you were speaking for me

as a young teenager he was remembered well during a Catholic service he tried to interrupt the priest who was sermonising that marriage is between a man and a woman

his hand went up

the priest saw it

like in school he sat up front

the priest ignored him

he then waved his hand

the priest ignored him

he stood and said in a firm voice

                                    No Yare wrong 

then he turned his back on the priest the Church and walked down the nave and outside the building

his parents heard of it before he had walked home

they were appalled

he laughed

             I agree with you Father Francis was appalling

which forced them to sayas he knew he was provoking them that they agreed with the Father

Yare wrong too

 

 

he was waiting for a telephone call because he asked verbally and in a note if they would please call him

silence

apparently thats what they were going to teach their three young children

                                                                              to be spineless                                                                                                      

0903,  Saturday,  21  11. 20

CSN&Y  Teach Your Children  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOaUnSmJr8

 

Awwha the hell he was talking to himself Wha the hell is this

he was across the street and cattycorner of the Police Department like the schools in town where their students were incarcerated behind tall chainlink fences and patrolled the Police building fronted and was high above the main street and behind a high retaining wall topped by eight foot black barred fence

                                                                           what startled him was on top the fence that wrapped back towards the building and stopped at brick posts which gave way to ramps that provided egress and exit for private vehicles and patrol cars

he hadnt seen anything like it since he was a boy 

the tops were wrapped with coiled elongated sparkling razorwire the sunlight glinted off it

as a boy on a family trip south they went through Cairo Illinois  entering Cairo was a stubborn yellow brick POLICE building sandbag walls ran around it and on top the bags was three foot tall coils of razorwire the building looked as if it was expecting a siege at each of the corners were machinegun bunkers the barrels were relaxedpointing up into the sky

he asked he sat behind his father as he drove he liked the smell of the Brylcreem his father put in his hair Paw Why does the police building look like a fort

To defend against the nigg . .

. . Robert! his mother barked You’ll watch your mouth around the children.

The boy asked, you prefer, I believe, that I don’t lie to him.

No, I don’t, but our racial problems will not be solved until one side stops preferring the terrible injustices Jim Crow laws have heaped on the other. As well you know how I feel about that language. If you can’t answer the boy civilly, don’t answer at all.

it was a startling exchange

the back of his fathers neck reddened

looking at the side of his mothers face he could tell she was angry

Nevermind Paw  I was curious nevermind

when they returned home from the trip his father didnt drive through Cairo he took a roundabout longer route and complained about wasting money on gas  and back home he went to the library to read about Jim Crow laws

he was appalled

                  the lady librarian was appalled he was appalled he told her Youd get along well with my Dad

turns out it wasnt razorwire it was Christmas garland  it wasnt Halloween yet whawas with the garland

funny the unexpectedness of it returned that memory 

                                                        when he learned his father was a racist

 

late October,  2020

1321,  Reggae Friday,  20  11. 20

Im melting  melting   Wha a worldwha a world

is it Giggles the Clown 

                        https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/-meltdown-as-rudy-giuliani-flails-in-court-trump-hides-in-wh-96333893778 

                                   or the Wicked Witch of the West 

                                                                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQJ8WrKnLUs

Giggles melted ridiculously  wha a fuckin joke  

bets on Giggles

                                                                                      1816,  Reggae Friday,  20  11. 20                                                                      

 

he found it scintillating not only to devour flesh from bones but also to split the softened bones with his canines and use their splinters to dig out marrow and eat

if he were an animal and had to die to feed someone hed wish someone like he would eat him

                                                                                                 he believed waste not want not he ate organs tripe sweetbread brains feet it was offal those who are less-versed might think he misspelled awful he tried and relished as many ethnic delicacies as he could find or was offered  

he understood his tastes were informed by his ethnic Polish family he was a second-generation American his mother and fathers sides arrived in the early 1900s he didnt know much of his fathers side – seems his father wasnt curious – his maternal grandmother arrived under the sponsorship of her uncle and ended up in Indianahis grandfather arrived at Ellis Island four years later to the day on the same ship his grandmother arrived he wasnt familiar with his grandfathers entry however he fought in the First World War as did his paternal grandfather

once he took up housekeeping in California he realised that Mexicans and Polish ate similarly it was liberating  oxtail heart  kidneys they werent available at regular American grocers evidently white peopleOops their clientele didnt have a hankering for rare thick-cut liver 

                                       no surprise living in Minnesota when he bought offal he bought just enough for his meal his wife and children wouldnt partake his wife made something different and during dinner the three of them made fun of him and fake-retched as he ate

since leaving Chicago as a teenager he couldnt find a good restaurant or any place to buy fresh and smoked Polish sausage -- Hillshire does not make Polish sausage they only call it that – neither kiszka kaszanka blood sausage tame gwumpki stuffed cabbage rolls or pierogies which where filled with plum cottage cheese or sauerkraut

one thing his ethnic upbringing and foods informed if push ever came to shove cannibalism wouldnt be a reach

he once told his Maw about the rugby team whose plane went down in the Andes to survive they resorted to cannibalism UGH. I’d never. Maw your life hangs in the balance Never. Youd prefer to die I’d die. he rubbed his hands together enthusiastically and obscenely smacked his lips Well babe just more for me to eat

1845,  Twosday,  17  11. 20

1056,  Thursday,  19  11. 20

 

Atlas asshole  Atlas asshole   Atlas   asshole 

                                                  https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-covid-19-adviser-urges-people-to-gather-with-elderly-on-thanksgiving-despite-risks-96190533505

make no doubt  he is an asshole

evidently 252K American deaths arent sufficient  

2050,  Thursday,  19  11. 20

$252K -- Killed

 

GSAs Emily Murphy USAs Donald Trump holding hands  skippinggiggling off into the sunset 

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/donna-edwards-says-trump-is-operating-unlawfully-and-dangerously-and-it-s-killing-americans-96258629712

let him sayeffect an appropriate epizeuxis  Americans will die Americans will die Americans will die  and Republicans dont care

1646,  Thursday,  19  11. 20

 

 

NO GOING BACK 

                    he knew that  hes known that   but now he finds himself repeating it every dayan affirmation of sorts

       though usually affirmations are Wha I love about myself is my ability to (fill in the blank) considered a powerful way to improve ones mindset daily as they can increase ones feeling of self-worth  self-worth hes never had a problem with that 

 

NO GOING BACK

                   he says that now to remind himself before leaving someone or someplace to look very hard at them  see them once more

                  there is no guarantee tomorrow will be as it had been today

he knows that

                although his daughters death has cut him deeper than any death of someone who he was intimate

he looked in her face when she was bornhis first child

he looked in her faceher eyes he thinks she saw himmaybe like when she was a baby she smiledher huge dimples  and died

       he saw the colour of her life drain from her face  her smile so slowly fell

OH MY GAWDIF HE COULD  HE WOULD RETURN TO PLACES AND TIMES WITH HER IN A HEARTBEAT 

1248,  Twosday,  17  11. 20 (though it occurred late last week)

1105,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  18  11. 20

Seals & Crofts  Funny Little Man  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwbwt7kRZJE

$252K -- Killed

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/doctor-calls-on-trump-wh-to-share-virus-data-with-biden-team-96122949953 

                the Republicans political tack reminding him of McDonald’s hamburgers  they touted Look for the Golden Arches its relentless business model was Hamburgers Served it wasnt until their formation in 1954 that they could boast One Million Served in 1962

                                    imagine if the Trump virus flourished eight years without a vaccine

Christ “How Many Served”

1838,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  18  11.  20

he really wanted to surprise her for her birthday

her landlord lived in the house next door

he rapped on the landlords door and asked if shed let him into her place so he could decorate the livingroom  he held a birthday cake he made from scratch  lemon poppyseed powdersugared

My, you’re really going all out.

I am he knew hed hook herseal the deal with what he said next Shes been an absolute blessing to me

Oh, goodness she blushedreligiously a little She is a wonderful woman; certainly I’ll let you in.

Thank you so much I am so grateful Ill keep a piece of cake for you

You’re welcome. Cake, that would be wonderful, I’ll have it for dessert tomorrow. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness.

I appreciate your assist

she mused he saw it turn in her face

Assist Its a term used in sportshockey particularly passing the puck to a shooter who scores immediately An assist

Well, okay; I suppose I know more about hockey now than I ever have.

A fast sport Hand-eye coordination off the hook

You’re a fan?

If I could skate I would have played I didnt have the ankles for it so I ended up playing basketball instead but all my buddies in high school played They played on traveling teams two made semi-pro Id go around with them if I could get out of work  We had great fun

Which is a nice seque into decora . .

. . Yes  I apologise Didnt mean to get so enthused Im very excited this morning

Just give me a moment; I’ll get a key.

Thank you so much

he festooned the livingroom and adjoining diningroom he taped to the ceiling a crazy colourballooned centerpiece and from it like a thousand legged starfish or octopus he ran twisted strands of complimenting coloured crepe paper dangled reflective streamers from where the toes touched the ceiling joined the walls

he set beeswax candles to either side of the cake which he set on the diningtable  beside it he left a wrapped Canon lens she had talked of wanting no ribbonshe was a wrapper not a ribboner 

                                                                               unless when they hugged

he picked her up from work early for a drink and dinner and then they doubledback to her employment so she could collect her car

he backed her up against her front door and unlocking itkissing her as they entered she groped for the lightswitchshe wasnt fond of the dark  he saw the moonlight etch their happy embrace on the carpet

as the light came on he released her and she turned into the room What the hell? Oh what the hell?!

Happy birthday love

This is wonderfulabsolutely wonderful! she grabbed his face and kissed him  I never had a birthday party.

You have now for very select partygoers You anme

Oh gosh, Joe, this is gorgeous; I’m so happy! You’ve blown my mind, you make me feel like a little girl again.

Hallie youve made me feel like a little boy every day since we met . . the second time 

she laughed a bellylaugh  she didnt cover her mouth 

Happy birthday 

0511,  Twosday,  10  11. 20

1209,  Twosday,  17  11. 20

Fleetwood Mac  Show Me a Smile  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6nEogq7pRQ 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGHVgdmbh9s 

                                                          Chris Krebs fired by tweet by Drumpf

this presidents fragile psyche is murdering Americans and the Republican party are bootlicks  cowards

1737,  Twosday,  17  11. 20

Lindsey’s felony or levity 

                           https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/did-lindsey-graham-push-georgia-throw-out-legally-cast-ballots-n1247973?cid=eml_mra_20201117

1551,  Twosday,  17  11. 20 

on Sunday at 2355hrs the president tweeted I WON THE ELECTION! then Monday morning 0851hrs he tweets I won the Election! not so forceful is it an Twitter placed notifications on both Official sources call this election differently

YA THINK

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-lawyers-flee-trump-s-floundering-legal-quest-falls-to-familiar-hands-96043589922

wha the president can claim is that the novel virus devastating America ought to be calledhe was calling it the Trump virus 

       the president can also claim the 249K dead Americans

1534,  Twosday,  17  11. 20

 

one might suppose that what it all comes down towhat our lives come down to  is that were batteries run on a DNA-charged charged through and through at birth 

                                                   but were not rechargeable

we loathe that we cant  anwe dig in we try to upset that course

however 

          if we are notif the common is not financially disposed to attempt to delay or offset our demise then he for one believed no one should

                      particularly not those whose habits are to build walls to keep others out  anperhaps failing to recognise theyve locked themselves in  

to his mind they are repugnant he need only look at the ideals which persist in our founding document the Declaration of Independence  which insists all men are created equal

his socialismhis sense of utter democracy equality was creeping up behind the loud American Capitalism with a wire garrote in hand

that is equality

as long as capitalism uses its purse strings to strangle those less fortunate anmany are less fortunate from birth        

0451, Twosday,  10  11. 20

1514,  Monday,  16  11. 20

 

he was concerned he was going to be a shitty parent a shitty father for not taking care of what he should

it woke him in the middle of the night sat heavy on his chest didnt let him fall back to sleep for hours

                                                                                                           it whispered in his ears  stereo  he wanted to tell it to walk awayleave him be until it could play in quadraphonic

                                                                                                        which only pissed it off  it gained weight and turned up the volume

                                                 thats a torture technique Cheney approved while Bush was asleep at the wheel  madcap John Choon Yoo Korean-born American legal scholarHUH provided the (il)legal rationale to torture detainees 

         mindya detainees  unproven  many men held on hearsay many disappeared for bounties paid  RFJ  Rewards for Justice program so very Americanhuh  amounts paid were commiserate to the value of the subject

it wasnt chump change

it whispered louder One morning you don’t wake up, one night you don’t go to sleep; you’ve left your mess for your daughter to clean up . .

motherfucker     

0516,  Saturday,  7  11. 20

1247,  Sunnyday,  15  11. 20

Wellfuck he may have arrived 

                                 hed blogged seven years  little recognition  didnt matter  he wasnt writing for recognition 

if someone noticed  Kool

going through analytics attached to his site it seemed he landed

                                                                   3 of his top 10 Referring URLs whasa URLhe didnt want to know were porn sites

seemed he landed on the moon anwha he groped wasnt green cheese

Ye fetch circumquaquesto make me beleeve, Or thinke, that the moone is made of greene cheese The Proverbs of John Heywood 1546 

                 say All fingers and thumbs  which Johnnieboy wrote then Eche fynger is a thumbe  it reminded him of grade school classmates who couldnt manage the wit to compete in random spelling bees  bene   spelling well

All fingers and thumbs reminded him of thickfingered fatfingered work  trades  vocations

he didnt know where those school days witless had landed 

                                                               he graduated at 17  summer school classes put him over then he bookedleft Chicago in his rearview mirror  

he visited to his family on occasions

if he didnt he wouldnt have seen them

they didnt visit

perhaps it was the tax he had to pay because lock stock and barrel they remained

he emaled his siblings the porn sites where his writing appeared

a tax he assessed them because they remained

they didnt appreciate it

                          algorithms on their computers harrassed – spelled correctly – them advertising fetishes and dildos and dominatrix sites

those ads muddied their waters unlike he ever could 

Aah  he put the technology that they adored and offended him to work to his benefit

the teeter totter beneath them gained more of an equilibrium

                                                                a teeter taunter  HA

0025,  Sunnyday,  15  11. 20

1333,  Sunnyday,  15  11. 20

 

Hmm  I might just have to try it in for size

she leeredgrinning 

                    My. Really?  Then by all means, I’m game; I’m happy to oblige.

he leered back 

                You are  You realise yare takin my breath away doncha

Moneys where your mouth is, doll.

Doll hed not been called doll in a while he mused that he may have his hands full as he walked over to the turntable

You familiar with The Who

I am.

Are you familiar with their song You Better You Bet

Shit, you seem always to come up with an appropriate song for the moment, like they’ve been waiting to be queued up.

Thats on you you queued it up I try my best but youll have to understand I have a long deep wide soundtrack an repertoire 

            Cums he winked with age

Oh stop, you’re killing me.

Thats my intention Im regarding the obscene twinkle in your eye

Well, better you read my eye than my min . . 

. . Windows to your soul babe your eyes are windows to your soul

Then why don’t you stop with your voyeurism, shut up, and get on with it.

You Better You Bet began

                            he didnt say another word

 

0858,  Monday,  9  11. 20

1221,  Sunnyday,  15  11. 20

The Who  You Better You Bet  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCfO9zClQ8I 

You have a lot of art on your walls.

Thank you

Your collection is varied, photographs, photographs that I thought were paintings, oils, watercolours, newspaper frontpages.

I appreciate you acknowledge News as art

Two have fingerprint smudges on them.

Yes.

Yours?

One South Viets Surrender Kennedy Slain are my Maws Yare perceptive

Thank you, all your pieces are captivating, they're not just wallhangings, decorative.

Thatd be a wastehuh

Yes. Some people hang art, others hang decorations . . his voice trailed off

Not that theres anything wrong with that  you were going to say

Yes. I was.

It goes without saying  he bellylaughed 

                                          I love that line  because we always say it

That’s true, very true, it begs to be said.

A mighty cute beggar I cant resist 

                                    However you did

I didn’t only because you stepped on my lines, were reading ahead from the script.

Yah  Sorry about that chief

Get Smart.

Ah  picks up on allusionscaught it on re-runshuh  I knew I liked you despite your lousy taste in professional football teamsthe 49ers  Christ

You ought to speak, da Bears.

I have a reason

Let’s hear your excuse.

No  Reason   I have a reasonI was born in Chicago

I was born in Califor . .

. . Though not San Francisco

I submit, in California, any California team is legitimate.

So youd allow born in Chicago is possibly more than legit

Where you going with this?

Did you just it goes without saying  me

 

I suppose I did.

Fine This is going to my reason for being a Bears fan all my lifeI was watching them at my uncles knees between their hands at the coffee tabletheir sweating cans of beer cigarettes and cigars smouldering in big glass ashtrays

Very descriptive; on with it.

Every child born in Chicago is inoculated made a Bears fan It happens in states back East Never did catch on much west of the Mississippi though there are pocketsusually college teams Say the Sooners Although prevalent in Texas even for high school teams

 

You’re so full of shit.

Nah he pulled his short sleeve up on his left arm and showed him where he scarred he didnt tell him it was DPThe wouldnt have known  DPT vaccinations were discontinued before he was born

Well, shit, that looks like that hurt.

Wouldnt know I was young 

                               Show me your 49ers scar

he watched expressions tumble under the skin of his facehe was trying to figure out if he was being serious or not

So which pieces on the wall attracted you attention the most

My favorites?

Favourites  Favourite

he walked over to a black narrowframed small painting at the head of the hall leading to the bath and bedrooms  it was executed in red and blue oil stabbed couple of time with purple 

                                                                  This one intrigues me, and I suppose being intrigued might make it a favourite; you seem drawn to abstracts.

Yes

Do you know the story behind the painting?

I do Thats Tajs painting

You knew the artist?

In a manner of speaking 

In a manner of speaking, how do you mean? Seems either you did or didn’t.

Taj was an elephant She died about seven years back My eldest daughter was an elephant trainershe knew Taj I knew Taj only from the times I visited the animal park where my daughter worked with her

She painted it in 2003 when she was 64

                                          What does it look like to you

I don’t know that I see anything in it.

Yare perceptive

I’m on the spot, what do you see?

When I tell you youll kick yourself Its I think as plain as the nose on your face

Do tell.

The red oil top to bottom offset right Im giving you a hint

he looked hard again his expressions mixing under his skin 

                                                                I don’t see.

Do you see how the paint separates near the bottom in two  

                                                              Another hint

he was upsetting him with his hints Would you just please say? I don’t like this hinting game.

Sorry I do apologise On rare occasion people have seen it

It’s an abstract, I’m not good with abstract; I prefer figurative pieces, landscapes, you have those too.

I do Although you werent drawn to them as much as Tajs

Yes. That is true.   Would you say what you see?

Of course The red figure can you see it as a figure the earsthe eyes – he pointed to them – the short armsthe longer legs  the trunk

Oh my God.

You see

I do. A self-portrait. Taj, standing erect, as a human being. The purple . . elongations . her tusks . . shes shed.

You see

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