all he could do against their sparkling
one-two punch was duck coverup submit
Ms. Amanda Gorman’s poem
Rev. Silvester Beaman's benediction
1132, Inauguration Day, Day-between-Two-Ts, 20 1. 21
20.1.21
one - two punch
theyd been drinking plentywere inebriated words were coming out funny which always entertained him and he laughed
harder than anyone at others slurs and mispronunciations helter skelter
juxtapositions and dropped thoughts What
was I saying?
This is time for telling
stories boys Man up
the other six at the circular
knifecarvedup wood table went quiet
he wasnt terribly drunk he was happyappeased which to him meant slightly pissed as his New Zealand and Australian friends
said
he didnt care for the term hisself
however when it slipped out of their mouths anthey
knew he didnt care for it it didnt seem so
offensive not as offensive as when he heard it in the States
since no stories were apparently
forthcoming he offered the first hoping to loosen some tongues around the table
concluding it he sat back grabbed
the barmaid gently by the wrist as she was passing she didnt mind
and ordered himself another whisky and beer
Can’t drink house whisky, man?
You always gotta have something separate?
the guy was a prickwasnt a friend
an acquaintance
Yadrink whaya like Ill drink wha I like friend friend sounded asif
he spat Whos got the
next story
prick said nothing
the other five sucked their beers
Awright a second One morelast one outa my mout
concluding the second it was a peach they all laughedwhich was his intent Awright Whos steppin up an in Whos got
the next tale
prick opened his mouth
You know, man,
your stories make you sound like a peeker; a pervert.
Lemme fill in the blanks yacant
fill without insult despite yer intent I
prefer voyeur I place keen details in my
stories as I try to recreateas best I can so what Im saying others might see see better
I wouldnt be here if I
wasnt a keen observer My life depended
on it
Frankly prick if I were you Id be dead
You got a mouth on you! he angrily tried to push away in his chair
from the table but his heels slipped on the peanut shells on the sawdusted
floor
Motherfuck passed out of his mouth but looking up he saw that he stood over
him
Yawere saying
Where
Ive been youd be a dead man
he was smart to not say
anything probably the smartest hed ever been in his
life
he rapped him on the forehead
with his index finger
I got one more story Innarested prick
meekishly Okay.
Awright In defense of my ass as yasay being a perv a
peeker Again I prefer voyeur or just fuckin observant I
served a tour in Nam as a tunnel rat
When I went down for induction
Select Service the draft When the group I was in was supposed to step
forward acknowledge that they were submitting I didnt
I enraged the military and
pseudo-militarythe community members who sat on the Draft Board
I signed my name declaring my
refusal to enter the Army with a period at its end
I was in the first groupthe
morning group
They kept me assuring me
they had the right to hold me over for the next group later that morning
They encouraged me to reconsider
If not whadaya gonna do kill my family
When the second group assembled standing
in three lines thirty guys I was at the front
Time came to step forward They did
I did not
Again I signed my name but with a
bigger period at its end
Military and the civilian comandante
really got their panties in a knot
Enthusiastically they explained
to me that never since the Draft begansince it was commenced had they not sent
every available A-1 draftee in the community into service
Cocksure I said Sorry boys hate to bust yer perfect bubble but I aint
going to fight someone I have no grudge against or existential reason to fight Terrible thing bombin a country back into the
Stone Age
I felt a pinch on my arm
When I came to I was on a rear seat
of a sedan My hands were shackled together
feet shackled a bind strung between them Hogtied Well I aint never sees a hog get out of one so I didnt resist I closed my eyes and went back to dreamland I can always muster a good dream
I woke up in a cell
Crazy to see sunlight passing
through bars
Later that morning I was visit by
three military officers who presented me with paperwork irrefutable paperwork
they said that bore my signature
agreeing to my induction
Damn if my signature didnt have a
period at its end
Only times I ever placed it to exemplify and exacerbate my abject derision to the draft
he nodded his head It was a forgery
Three weeks into boot camp I
injured enough draftees that at night in my rack I suffered another pinch on the
arm When I came to I was drooling down
the front of my khakis I was on a
military aircraft flying to Nam
I was small then
I was designated tunnel rat
Before the end of my first tour Id grown into my mature body put on four inches and sixty pounds couldnt be a rat nomo
And Id kill someone before Id
reup
The point of my story is I am fucking observant
Naif
yawanna take our differences outside an discuss them Im happy to oblige
Otherwise Prick
Shut yer piehole
2304, Monday,
18 1. 21
1254am, Twosday, 19 1.
21
19.1.21
he penned note to his girlfriendwould
mail it in the morning it was delicious to
receive a letter through the mail than throwaway advertisements or bills he told her about his new word he acknowledged its precursor hourglass however he was affixing it a new status he jazzed it up urglass ur- that which is primitive is the original
they lived their doled out lives on indiscriminatesifting sands of Time
hed have what authority he could take
because authoritypower
does not give it up it only releases its
griplets go when it is forced to suffer authority doesnt know suffering then
experiencing pain made uncomfortable only does it let go hoping that the discomfort will dissipate disappear
shed follow himhis logic
they were creatives
they took apart bindsuntied knots smashed barriers destroying fetters to find clearblue
freedoms
shed get it
an
mebbe for his letter shed treat him with one of her ownmebbe with enclosed delectables
she is a beautiful woman
she could
read his mind
when he began writing her of
urglass he saw that the time on the windup clock was 1234
seemed as simple
1234am, Monday,
18 1. 21
1540, Monday,
18 1. 21
Fleetwood Mac Sands of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jkp34jMeEw
she cracked the top his hourglass
he
corrected her when she absently called it that My urglass I have an urglass before turning it for him the crack was larger than she meant
but
she couldnt take it back
Wait wait he had saidhe trusted her wait for every last grain to fall before turning
it I want every secondevery second Im due I have
it wasnt greed she knew that
he was trying to
live fully for those he loved who he believed died too soon it was rendering himkilling him
she decided to help
hed been running on fumes for
years and the exhaustion was taking its toll
he wasnt the vivacious man
he once was
Stop complainin he said No one is Im getting older We either get
older or we die
he used to say she reminded
him We either get older or we dont
Semantics he protested
Semantics
even his maddening penchant to arguehis
scathing eye for detail were less vituperative less frequent
she could help
she did
he heard herheard the sliver of
glass fall a peal of a thin bell a squeak of a hummingbird Whadidya do my love
Whadidya do
I want to help you, my love
she began to weep
he sighed
then he consoled her
0017, Monday,
18 1. 21
1435, Monday,
18 1. 21
Pharoah Sanders Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBot2UwLET8
January 17
not something hed ever
seen before not a boy from Chicago later ensconced
in Minnesota for fifteen years
though he was living in California now
a cute little number in shorts
gym shoes and a white spaghettistrapped top waved proudly over the fence to him as she cut his
neighbours lawn coached by his neighbours teenage son
he waved back
she smiled real bigall chicklets
again
he was taking that it was the
first lawn she ever cut
if she was smart
if she wore that getup
if she knocked on his door Mister, cut your lawn for tenbucks; fifteen if you want to watch.
Were negotiating
Hmm, hadn’t thought of that.
No thanks I dont like the sound of power mowers
Power mowers?
Wha you were using next door
A lawn mower.
A powered mower
I don’t know what you’re talking
about.
Got a second
Yes.
Im not paying you for your
second understood
that tickled her
he took her down to the backyard shed
and pulled out his rotatingblade mower
What . . is that?
A manual reel mower
Silly, of course it’s real, I can see it.
E-e not e-a Reel not real
Ah.
nice that she was quick on the uptake
Whawould you charge me to cut my
lawn with it
Thirty dollars. And you can watch, won't cost you a penny more.
Id be saving ya gas money
But not time, an . .
.
. Times money
You said it, brother.
Rather you said it like a real homegrown American capitalist
I have to correct you. Entrepreneur.
Scuse me I stand corrected
Though youll have
to take yermanure an hawk it elsewhere
Twentyfive bucks. I shouldn’t
take No for an answer.
Yer too young for me to tell ya
wha Id pay you twentyfive bucks for
he smiled he didnt have chicklets
back East January 17 as
a boy he made three bucks front walk side walk walk to garage in back and street
walk if they
wanted they could negotiate the drive
January Seventeenth he thought
Fuck me
1446, Sunday,
17 1. 21
2147, Sunday,
17 1. 21
18.1.21
he shoved her
against the glass
he took pains to be sure that the
glass behind them would reflectcapture what was happening behind her he hired a girl about her heighther enthusiasm which he remembered and hoped she still
exhibited
he assumed her flame
hadnt diminished
he wasnt going to
risk being overwhelmed anif she was not she could watch that he hadnt been
Can you see Can you see
I can hardly see, the angle’s
off.
Ah
they paused he told her to keep it warm
he
acquired a second freestanding glass and angled them in her periphery
Now Can you see now
he watched her eyes move
leftright she then stared at her faceglancing
side to side she smiled
Yes, perfectly. I can see your back;
I can see me watching me.
he pushed her head nearer the
mirror maybe a head away
Again
now only
her eyes moved swinging leftright back
and forth back and forth
Yes. I can see us perfectly.
Fine
he pulled her away from the glass she fixated on their reflections
Is this for a game?
A game of sorts
Would you like to practise I . .ah think, I wouldn’t mind
helping you practise.
Thats kind of yo . .
. . I’m not looking for kindness.
she
smiled wickedly he liked her sharp
canines showing just beyond her lips
I have your number
Yes. I hope you use it.
he smiled wickedly
We will
see eh
Eh? Like that. Perhaps we will. she set him with her
steelygrey eyes on his Please.
an ache encroached his cock
Perhaps
Thank you for not lying.
she turnedfaced him her hands on his biceps I want a kiss, though.
he kissed her deeplysurprised by
his passion
she kissed as deeply
her groan honest
they broke their kiss exactly together
I like your game.
Thank you
at the couch seated before the
fireplace raindrops tearing on the
glasspanes dribbling excited prisms were
silent witnessesmute observers as they talked over their first drinktheir first
together in Five years is it? she
asked Please Coy is not your strong suit Six years. Six an months she smiledleaned her head briefly to his
shoulder her thick black hair smelled
good
the barmaid apologised it appeared their table was running late as a courtesy she wanted to offer them a
drink on the house
Yes she whispered breathlessly
Thank you I appreciate your gesture Yes please The same again
as the barmaid left she asked him
if he was trying to get her tipsy
No
she pouted
No?
Why would I want you tipsy
Maybe, perhaps – too many perhaps
had passed into his ears laying like fat lazy cats on telephone numbers sprawlinglanguishing on
possibilities -- perhaps
I’d like to be tipsy.
Not anesthetised Tipsy
the
game commencing?
Tipsy. Pleasantly tipsy . .
memories then drift up on a high lazy tide . .
. . Like flower petals
Petals . . yes . . their musk
wetted.
halfway through their second
drink the girl fetched them they
stood the barmaid tookup their drinks on
a tray and lead the way
he guided her by her elbow to
follow and he followed behind her
he was keen to inhalebreathe in
the scent of each
he could have closed his eyes and
not stumbled as they walked to the diningroom
entering the roomjust inside the mirrored door This is a really nice room.
Ive stayed here before I thought since I had to come down to meet you
Id spend the night
I . . have a room across the
street.
You also have a husband and
children
Please, stop.
Let’s not think, shall
we?
Perhaps
she caught his drift wrinkledup
her nose
I suppose I own perhapses, and maybes.
You do Some courts would find you
guilt of cocktease
Cocktease. she stood with her back to the door You think I’m a cocktease? she leanedup against him she was small
he could feelwas aware of her breast at his diaphragm his nose caressed the crown of her head the back of her headhe remembered smelled the same
she had to feel him growing
against her belly
A cocktease
she didnt put her arms around
him
she leaned heavier against him
he burrowed against herhe could
feel her rhythmic breathing he could imagine
the things he could do to herthe things he masturbated to
he pinioned her aroundpushed his
cock to the furrow of her spinegrabbed
her wrists and placed her hands on the door to either side of the glass
Keep your
hands there donmove em Look into the
mirrorusing only your eyes Donlook at me
she saw
he liked the wincethe spark in her spine its sudden rigidness he grabbed her tits fiercelypinched her
nipples hard he groaned
the groan was calling her bluff
an inarticulate Cock Tease
she shivered
Stop
she didnt say anything
I should take you to your hotel
he did
which was fine he had
another number
1212 or 0012, Saturday,
9 1. 21
1514, Sunday,
17 1. 21
Heart Crazy on You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjEC4WhCvg
Romantics Talking in your Sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGMzyajA2U
Fixx One Thing Leads to Another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHYIGy1dyd8
Wang
Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXu6QmxpJE
coming down a steep hill old
pavementcould pick out individual rock where the sand gave way to a busy cross street
he picked his nose up out of the book he was reading Whadahell she dressed for he thought
palepink
shortsleeved top palepink leggings skintight from behind her
blonderaspberrystreaked hair passing her shoulders made her look like a sunburnt
nude her halfbootsthe break of flesh
between them and the seam of her leggings broke him free of his nudemusing
still there wasnt a lot left to the
imagination
traffic was surprisingly
slight
which allowed him to cross the
street fivesix metres off her right shoulder as she stood on the sidewalk looking
into an eatery through its plateglass window
it was in that window he
recognised she was watching him watching her
he waved
she waved back into the window
without turning around
Gotta tell ya he said loudly from behind ya look neked Ya pull it off nicely though Think yad look great
Thank you, I think she replied
into the window
Thought forsure you were
going down on your face coming down that hill. Pavement’s terrible.
he continued walking off up the sidewalk
So yare
from around here
I am!
Good Maybe Ill seeya around sometime Was mighty nice seeing ya today
LIKELY I’LL SEE YOU FIRST.
LIKELY
1400,
Monday, 11 1. 21
1604, Saturday, 16 1.
21
17.1.21
he dreamt of being a pet a kept
man
an thinkin it
through he didnt have a problem with that
he was afterall
dreamin
secondlyseconal
for the waryfor the I
wanna know exactly whayer hittin me up with doc Secobarbital
hmm sounds like a variety of treble hooks he used for pike and walleye
it can cause paranoid or suicidal
ideations
life causes paranoid or suicidal ideations
it can impair memory judgment and
coordination
mebbe
someone doesnt wanna rememberdoesnt give a rats ass what their actions provoke coordination don get fancy
most people get dicey when you tell em the earth is spinningrotating gravity keeps their feet planted keeps em
from becoming satellites
seconal combined with other substances particularly alcohol can slow breathing and possibly lead to death
hed watched women
pass in a crosswalk before his car that slowed his breathing imagining em fucking him to death
probably good thing he was being
cremated otherwise the mortician wouldnt be able to get that lurid fuckin smile
off his face making children crywhy they
didnt know making men clear their throats hem andhawandsigh deeply making women wet Close his coffin Hes making dying look rewarding mighty
attractive Hedon look like hes going to
meet his Maker looks like hes gonna bugger Him
but he digresses
secondly he kept pets
he took damn good care of his
pets
they would be cats no interest in dogs
dogs reminded him of slavery
rather
they exhibit slavish devotionloyalty to their Master
hed shoot hisself in the head rather
than follow massa or Dear Leader
cats are wholly independent as he
get up in his shit
Buhbye baby byebye
but caring for his pets watering feeding grooming
changing their
boxes so theyd be clean they satisfied
his paternal needs now that his children
were older on their own having cleared the bar he and his wife heldup to be decent
intelligent human beings
but ofcourse they would
they were young women
that said
even
dreaming he wouldnt be kept or in a relationship with a inarticulate woman
hed wake in a sweat in a heartbeat
Buhbye baby byebye
1137,
Saturday, 16 1. 21
1331, Sunday, 17 1.
21
Awshit scuse me
I ah didnt meandidnt expect to ah interrupt ya
the tree gruntedfroze in midcurl
Yawanna finish out I can wait aint going anywheres special No ticktock no time constraints
it jerked its crown right indicating him to proceed some dried leaves shook free a squirrels nest shifted
I am sorry Excuse me
the tree grunted again
after he passed behind it and was out
of the way he glanced back
the tree went back to curling a rectangular slab of concrete with its roots that it had broke free years ago
often passing hed smell tree sweat
hed stop and look at the tree
it played dumb
first time he caught it in action
though over the twelve or something years hed been passing this waydescending the broken sidewalk and steps he suspected as much
a nice treat
1500-ish,
Thursday, 31 12. 20
1349, Saturday, 16 1. 21
16.1.21
he was on a roll
he shot craps
when yare on a roll ya hang with
it keep throwing the ivory
apparently as firmlyhar
indicated in four dreams over three nights elastic streeetched admittedly he couldnt wait to go
back to sleep he was exceptionally fond of left breasts singularly
their left
the first occurred while he was
taking a bubble bath a whisky in a
crystal tumbler at his hand on a handsomecarved marble shelf beside it was a halo of beeswax candlelight
from a Galway crystal pillar hurricane he wouldnt know that if she didnt say as she tended him
she sat beside the tub in a
Natori cheetah robe he humoured her Natori cheetah Is that a cheetah from Africa
she giggled
No. You’re cute. Natori is an
upscale fashion designer and manufacturer.
Yadonsay
I do, I do say. shed been hanging out with him too long he accepted she was keeping him as a pet its nice to be kept for awhile
he made her laugh again and she
nearly tossed her half-fullshe
was an optimist champagne flute givem a second he knew this
duh NUDE Turkish glassware Stem Zero
Stop. You nearly made me lose my
glass.
she set it down on the Carrara
marbletopped sundry cabinet and still laughing she leaned over himher hands to
either side of the tub to kiss him her
left breast slipped from her gownjiggled just above his face
Luring me luridly
And?
he rose like a trout after a fly and
dragged her down into the sudsy tub with him
Come in, you caught me dressing,
Mad’s not here yet.
Madeleine his dreamed-selfs memory informed him Mad was his
daughter
Glad I did Steph I love that robe of yours it was pale blue a fuzzy flannel fleece long hooded robe You everah
wear the hood put it . .
. . Only when I assume being an executioner.
Whadaya execute couldnt help himself
cutie
You . . maybe . . I’m running
late, you’re gonna make me late.
I am But before you go to finish dressing come
over here and give me my hug
loosening the robes belt she had
already turned to go up the hallway separating them by several steps
I’m late!
she turned abruptly
rightpinwheeled around her left breast popped out
she froze where she was her chin slowly coming down her eyes widening
he had been walking
towards her so she wouldnt rush
Well now Im
confused Which of you am I supposed to
hug
but before she could saybefore
she could cover her breast he put his arms around her and gave her a huge
bearhug as was his way
holding
her tighther arms hesitating then coming
up to embrace him he said Lets not let
something that large and attractive keep us apart awright
I’m mortified.
Im notwill you marry
me I suspect youll understand Im not taking
a knee no matter how badly Id love to at
this moment
she was long and tall and
athleticmuscled arms a really nice sway
at her chest
she handled a basketball wellshot
well a teenager
she had threefour inches on
him wingspan too
she wore shortsgood legs wore a couplethree athletic shirts dago-Ts
Ya shoot pretty well kid Wanna play
she kept dribbling while looking
at himcrossing over crossing behind her
back
I’m
four years varsity.
Free throws until one of us
misses to take the ball out first Don
hit the rim don have to take it up court
I was two years varsity
Alright. You’re on.
Ten basket game
Yeah, brisk games.
Yah
she missed the thirteenth free
throw mumbled under her breath
he bounced the ball to her
she in-bounded it to him
he broke hard right he knew she recognised he was a leftie she didnt recognise that lefties usually
owned righties because like boxers most people are righthanded she stumbled
he pulled up rather than driving and popped a shot outside the key near
freethrow land
One zero
she finally got the ball back at
Seven
she got a couple
he closed her out Ten two
Again. she barked
he was on a roll
over the next five games only the
fourth was competitive Thirteen eleven
two point rule she never led
Again.
she stripped off a couple of
jerseys down to a flimsy dago-T
his ball
he popped four in a row from
outside over her the fifth she touched
and came away with it drove the hoop
he caught
herdrove her wide and slapped her layup away she slipped down in the grass at the end of
the court
on her back she threw her hand up
for him to helphe snatched it and pulled her up to her feet
she didnt help much
so his pull was
more aggressive than he would have wanted Off me Damnright off you. she glared
glare looked good on her
what else looked good on her her jersey shifted exposing her left breast it accentuated by her heavy breathing
he pointed at her tit
Thats cheating although if I may terribly attractive
she lost that game too
he was in a night club
whawas he doin in a night club
he didnt like em
bars yah
taverns yah
bowling alleys and pool halls hellyah
so he knew
he was dreaming
he huddled up to his dreaming-self
and asked him over his shoulder Whas cookin
Whas dreamboy up to
dreaming-self didnt give him a
heythere a howdoyado or shrug off his hand at his shoulder Our boys mesmerised
Who or whas mesmerising him
Comon were talkinbout you whawould mesmerise you in this joint
Upscale joint If I wasnt dreamin the door wouldve shook me
down for serious coin That said Id say
putang punany papapapussy You stuttering
Ya catch an eyeful of that
dreaming craned his neck aroundlooked
him in the face followed his eyes to a woman coming off the slightly elevated
wood dance floor
Jesus Shes amazing
Oohyah I see
Shes Jesus built
Yawanme to salivate for the two
of us Im real My salivating will count for more
Salivate away
Whars our boy
There you are
Ohyeah two drinks Must have asked someone wha she was drinkin Id be hard to forget her or her drink
Smooth operator
Thank us Though I dont like our getup Whod we rob to afford that suit Fuck he tugged at a nonexistent collar at his throat Hot in here
Man some like it hot
Remind mehuh Shes takin the temp up
Hellyah she is
Brazilian African Indian Spanish
Mixed nicely together
He spilled his drink on himself
Idiot
Nah Know us
Ploy
Whapossible ploy
Hes tugging at his shirtfront not embarrassed Awshit Hes convincing her its cooling him Offering
Offering
To cool her
they held their breath if she was as crazy as him Game Time
she nodded
he dumped her drink on her
chestshe jumped up from her chair by its chill
smiling white teeth carnivorous
he hailed a waitress heldup split fingers Two the same he called so she didnt have to come
all the way to the table almost secreted by tall bigleafed potted plants he pulled a silk handkerchief from the inside
pocket of his jacket offering it to her
she stood up
she was taller than they in her
heels
she tugged her blouse open exposed her large left breast they gasped to a man and taking the handkerchief from him she
thoroughlynimbly dried her breast
the massive blood drain from
their brains by their simultaneous hard-ons made them faintheaded
1148, Reggae Friday, 15 1.
21
1213, Saturday,
16 1. 21
Sade Smooth Operator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A
Power Station Some Like It Hot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1t7OCESUw
Grachan Moncur III New Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xo0mzj-lg4
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