if he was asked he would say it was a nice quiet midnight shootout

what made it nice and quiet  was that the neighbours didnt venture outside their homes

they must have figured it was a cop thing

not their thing

he saw he the only one who hadwho was curious about the shrill raised voices the argument the audible sense of violence like blood in the water   chumming for sharks

an officer at the strange edge of the flickering cop lights from accumulated squad cars said to him You need to go inside.

Nah Alternative witnesses are necessary an it seems as Im looking around  Im it

I’m not asking.

he didnt budge he said his pieceitd be easy to recall 

Are you refusing my direct order?

A bitchhuh

            One might think Im lucky to refuse an officer because Im white  Best ya carry on Ill not impede you or get in your way  Your work is behind you not here

it was a nice quiet shootout  though usually suicide by cop didnt end with cops dying   two did

there was gunfire

                 cops were hit where their greaves armour helmetstheir blackclad Imperial Roman soldier outfits didnt give them cover

whoever was shooting from inside knew where to aim

as officers fell an immediate barrage of gunfire was returned  then a queer natural order interceded  the house exploded up and burned downthe red flames dominating the flickering squads

 

in the morning authorities reported that three adults and four children were found inside the ruins  a fourth adult was shot to death in the backyard avoiding the barbecue

if he was asked he could attest thatthats how it went down 

                                                             One  two  three  strikes  an  yare  out

0046,  Thursday,  8  7. 21

1623,  Thursday,  8  7. 21

 

cats namedselfnamed one of a few aliases Acid Pauli   hmmm she didnt have an alias couldnt help but wonder if she wasnt missing the boat  he was a DJ electronic music heard him performing on Boiler Room which she recently found usually she played music behind her as she wrote on her alptop aah  maybe an alias otherwise known as a laptop but she liked thinking she was OnTop of her game  hence alptop 

                                                     YouTube triedas YouTube does to sneak in a vile interruption it literally yanked her head back by the hair  yanking her head forward she almost spit it was some crapcommercial that offered nothing shed entertainhad no interest or would likely develop any 

                                                                             she thought her computer godstheir algorithms failed she would have sworn they knew better   

jumping out of WORD to YouTube she SKIPpeddismissed it which revealed the video playing with the music she listened to YouTube the DJ at his DAW at his sequencer sampler synthesisersBAM not lions and tigers and bears but close  and in that glance she saw his fingernails were lacquered

he wasnt much to look

a Martin 

         Yup German  looked German

a cat who likely got into music for the chicksthe groupies

she guessed if he didnt have anything else going for himnot her cup of tea that at least his lacquered fingernails were something 

                   Shiny

1609,  Twosday,  6  7. 21 

1526,  Thursday,  8  7. 21

 

No, it isn’t political.

                      when a politician says that  appears to muse or is humoured  if theyre a Republicant  bet your sweet ass its a lie 

   Liar  

         check one of the boxesDONE many descriptors remain weve only just begun

the wave of state legislations to restrict voters rights is critical to the obscenebeasts survival

they are devoid of ideas

without a platform

                    and given recent mortality findings 99.5 percent of Trump virus deaths are unvaccinated Americans  do the math  their legions are dying

they cant offset their deaths

whites arent having babies

not on par with First People Black Brown or Asian Americans

                                                                even forcing women to birth despite pregnanciesviolations caused by incest or rape Put your back into it, man. wont help

it must suck to have nothing but a yearning for power or celebrity

                                                                     DEAD END

1832,  Thursday,  8  7. 21

 

Robert Mapplethorpe once told a BBC interviewer “If you say too much you lose some of that mystery. You want to be able to pick up on the magic of the moment. . . You don’t know why it’s happening but it’s happening.” 

Mapplethorpe was an acquired taste  like scotch

he tried it several times before the ship came in  he understood   but he had that kind of patience for spirits and Art

as a youngster teen young man he was not known to be patient

it wasnt until his rashness physically damaged him and he had to heal had to rehabilitate his body that he recognised patience being a patient was demanding knitting made him submit  and there were few things he willingly submitted

. . . the magic of the moment. . . You don’t know why it’s happening but it’s happening.

 

after the happening is the possible realisation

                                                if one really thinks about itputs it through its paces

been put through paces put through a wringerhis own doing he was reflective  WHY an excellent hypothesis  and he is only person who could assess or know WHY

                                                the magic is revealed  starkly

one either learns through objective asnearlyasonecanbeobjectiveaboutthemselves reflection  digging in excavating   or they dont

a lookingglass reflection should be as true as possible

                                                          act for yourself  no one else

Twosdayafternoon,  6  7. 21

1446,  Thursday,  8  7. 21

The Hollies  Look Through Any Window  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXCbDICvoxk

it didnt take much to pique his ire be kind 

                                                  prick him

an unsought wounding

he made sure his blood flowed free

whisking away risk of infection

                                  being that it wasnt his prickhis fault

whoever pricked him probably wasnt aware he was a bighuge believer in an eye for an eye Old Testamenty  his favourite parables and allegorys 

                                  he laughedhe laughed harder  ridiculously   he laughed hard in pleasure to offset the nuns who became belligerent and the broomsticks they made him kneel on 

until he didnt

               Wha am I doin  Am I stupid 

eye for an eye

actually though  ultimately not really

                                       for he preferred to err on the side of caution and always went big

had he better angels they may have argued with him for proportionality 

                                                                          but he didnt

so he went big . . 

he didnt believe he was vengefulwhat goes around comes around

                                                                     he just wanted to make damn sure it came around swiftly  and vividly

a lesson learned

with an !  

          enthusiastically 

earnestly suggesting to the pricker there was more where that came from if they provoked him again 

aside from this little facetfault in his personality he was kindliked to think he was kind

kind of kind

 

2051,  Twosday,  6  7. 21

1136,  Thursday,  8  7. 21

Be Kind  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePao0cTGG-o 

 

 

when one is in the habit of pickingup pennies theyre plentiful because when people drop them they are either too lazy or too fat or itsonlyapenny to bend over and pick it up 

                                              when one is in the habit of pickingup pennies other change the rare bills  obviously incentivised  they findhe still does it that over their childhood they learned to be observant

keen eyes help his vision was TwentyFifteen

                                             but being observant lends itselfaffords other adaptations one a prescience  a presciencefortified by experience similar circumstances reoccur such as when thirty thirtyone thirtytwo are realised more than likely thirtythree will follow on their heels they see because they were looking A B C  then likely D these varietiesvariances present almost daily if one troubles themselvesno trouble at all to look

he prided himself at looking and seeing 

                                         and for adeptly recognising situations he sufferedinappropriately accusations jealousies that he had attracted the particular happenstances that he was a kind of magnet 

                                                                                                 Attracting . .   Wha wha am I attracting   Attracting fine metal filings.   Nah not at all Its a matter of being in the right place at the right time or more so an awareness to see it coming heading it off at the pass  a willingness to witness

If I have to explain thats how it works

                                         the fact that he was explaining told him he was talking with someone who didnt stoop and pickup pennies

to their detriment

  inobservant

                 a myopic existence

OhWell

209 or 1409,  Twosday,  6  7. 21

1244,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  7  7. 21

 

wiredraw 

           the word was creeping up as one of his favourites  probably second place to rawawkwardness  he was attracted by the aws the ws  

when he finally relenteddecided to lookup wiredraw up in the dictionary he found dictionaries printed it as wire-draw to draw (metal) out into wire especially by pulling forcibly through a series of holes of gradually decreasing diameter in a succession of dies strain at, pulling or trying hard to get meaning from a word, analogy 

                                                                                    he didnt care for wire-draw

he preferredif hyphenated he didnt like hyphenations wired-raw  or wiredraw

then knowing what he knew he decided to stick with wiredraw  androgynous  chameleonesque   camouflagedoctopus

because he liked to think of himself as wiredraw

                                                   raw  rare    like meat 

whachasee is whachaget

it ofcourse was a product a birth of childsplay 

                                                 childs-play  child-splay   fuck if he knew

childsplay 

wiredraw

           rawawkwardness

 

0830,  Saturday,  31  8. 19 (one year) scribbled in Estes Park, CO 

1154,  Twosday,  6  7. 21 

Kokoroko  Abusey Junction  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSv04ylc6To

wanna play hardball

  

January 6

six months later his thinking hadnt changed

the Rule of Law Defense Fund seventeen state Republican Attorney General headedup by the Texan AG who was under indictment helped advertise and outreach for Formers playdate

ah the virtue of immorality and lies

his thinking hadnt changed

                           it was unfortunate the Capitol Police didnt broadcast CEASE AND DESIST SEDITIONISTS  unless youd like to muster Neos cinematic Matrix moment

if they refused to cease and desist

                                     then America could watch as it was watching them dance with a hail of bullets

he thoughthis thinking hadnt changed  it should have taken only a singular volley

if two 

       then two

it would have saved authorities considerable resources and have had fewer defendants to stand trial 

                                                                                                           he confined himself to the reality that American democracy was trying to be overthrown

if they wanted to play hardball 

                                  play hardball

1756,  Twosday,  6  7. 21

John Fogerty  Centerfield  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbwIXdu30E

 

orators or actors

manipulated by wordsseduced 

                                 or following someone who is at the head who leads who will succeed or suffer with you

talking heads out of harms way 

or someone with skin in the game

Verba movent, exempla trahunt words move people, examples compel them or better known to most as actions speak louder than words

                    he scribbled the Latin at work at the liquorstore in a down-momentduring a lull  he was allowed fifteen minute breaks during his shifts but he didnt take them  a scribble was the only break he allowed in his stride  he preferred hitting the floor and keep running  occasionally looking up from busying himselfthere was always something that needed tending he recognised he hadnt run into or seen his coworkers  he worked evenings so there were only three of them which was cut to two for the last two to houranahalf dependent 

                                                                           at the front of the store he went to the near wall  as he walked he looked up aisles then crossing back to the far wall he found that they both were in aisles on their cellphones  whether Googling or texting or conversing he didnt bother to ascertain  he had things to dohe had to pickup their slack 

orators or actors? 

                    dumb question

 

circa 2019

1103,  Twosday,  6  7. 21

 

No means no

he got it 

         he got it as a boy unlike a lot of his buddy and guys he met later You know they don’t mean it.  They mean it  They say no, but they mean yes, it’s a game, man; they have to get No out so that they’ve said it as they were taught.   Yawerent taught right whadaya mean when you say no   I’d never say no to making out, getting laid. 

fuckin Neanderthals 

servicing their dicks

 

No means no

shy his cat looked at him her paw nails at the screen No means no hed have thought the yearplus Trump virus and his constant attention an sayingso at her at all of them they would have learned and he held three of his five in high regard because they were females females are sharper than males

                                                                 no matter the species

had to be the language barrier

                               had to be

she released the screen brought her paw down temporally suggesting with subtle finesse Oh, you're talking to me; perhaps you should have said Shy, no means no; so I would have known you were directing No at me and not my mother or siblings or uncle indie.   You see another cat in the room   Do I have eyes in the back of my head? That’s a model of cat unreleased and unlikely to evolve because such eyes are unnecessary; were they they would have evolved by now.  he hated existential conversations with an animal whose breed and collective unconscious was threepointfour million years old he knew if he pressed the issue shed remind him his rudimentary species might be at its oldest fourhunredthousand years old  shy didnt call him a punk or a moron he apologised  Theres that he said in this inaudible exchange next time Ill say Shy No No means no  

hed kill her with kindness 

                             or just kill her 

I heard that, prick.

1431,  Monday,  5  7. 21

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/world-s-oldest-homo-sapiens-fossils-found-morocco 

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/stunning-dragon-man-skull-may-be-elusive-denisovan-or-new-species-human      

 

he was trying hard to pull back from politickle slights after the electionafter the last five years  but the fat mango Mussolini wasnt letting him

                              the Former 

if yadon bury the dead they rot they smell to high heaven 

thats where he found himself

dogs and cats shit they get their nose down in it and smell  then they scratch and dig to bury their scent   

seems we donhave the commonsense of animals

he watched recent reporting on three groups that the Feds were coming after for the insurrection on January 6

                                                                                                                    the Feds should those were seditionists who crashed the Capitol seeking to overthrow American democratic process

the three the Oath Keepers the Proud Boys the Three Percenters  the insouciant mentality of outmanned but not outgunned

            however  humouring himself  theirs was a faculty of few military veterans and lotsa paintball wizards 

get an eyepatch 

                 try an look hardened 

paintball wizards 

this isnt a game

this is our democracy

1806 or 606pm,  Monday,  5  7. 21

Who  Pinball Wizard  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFrDpx7zLtA

 

he knew stormy wasnt doing well

                                    when he came home from work before he went to work out he fed the cats they werent his cats they were his wifeshis daughters but they had places to go people to see things to do  in death   and in life  reality is that someone is always left holding the bag

                                                                 he wondered if there were support groups that helped one that they could commiserate with whichto be sure that wouldnt be he he didnt buy into team effortsonly concerned himself with what he brought to the table  he didnt buy into help counselors selfhelp publications he preferred to root around on his own like a pig after truffles after he determined the correct direction to go in

stormy was his wifes cat

                           she felt their girls ought to be brought up with a pet  You had pets growing up.  I had a goldfish Goldie when I was in second grade Goldie was gutted by a parakeet when he or she rose to the top of the bowl if you scratched its rim usually just before feeding him or her Goldie would rise and roll over onto their back he could actually rub Goldies belly  gutted by a parakeet Sissy 

                                     before they married his wife gave him a Samoyed-Husky for his birthday April  he was a fat puppy he named him Fatty  Fatty was shot to death by a rancher before the year was out

she felt their girls ought to be brought up with a pet 

stormy was eighteen now

he fed her separate from the other four cats put their food down and kept stormy up on the kitchen counter to feed herhers was a wetfood unlike their dry food

                                               he stood guard because young cats will be young cats

stormy pushed the food around with her muzzle didnt eat anything she was out of sorts

he put cellophane on her bowl and refrigerated it

taking her down off the countersetting her on the linoleum floor she was lethargic she squattedseemed content to do absolutely nothing

Stormy whasup girl 

                      he preferred not to miss his workout but   he hadnt seen her off her game but once when she was young  an extensive surgery saved her life

picking her up from the kitchen floor he brought her into the livingroomtucked her against him with one arm and placed a record on the turntable he didnt remember what he played then he sat on the rocking loveseat with her on his lap

an hour or so later he felt it in his fingershis hands an electric bolt shot through her spine contorted her bodycurled it so that stormys head came up back an nearly touched her rump

she collapsed senseless

her breathing was laboured 

she spasmed threefour times more

seveneight hours later in the dark in silence she died on his lap 

his wife felt their girls ought to be brought up with a pet

 

stormy died his wife was dead his girls were gone from home at college

Yah dontell him Life isnt fair not by a long shot

Summer of ’19

1345,  Monday,  5  7. 21

5 July 1852

 

History 

        and why history has to be understood in its context not cherrypicked not ignored or denied because it was ugly  because it remains ugly

History  Truth & Fact 

                         necessary to punch a hole in and deflate a Macys helium balloon dedicated to American mythos

Americans are not who they believe they are but rather who they should be known to be in toto

 

Frederick Douglass

“Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?

“I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you this day rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today?

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.

“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour forth a stream, a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and the crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.”

1024,  Monday,  5  7. 21

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/5/james_earl_jones_frederick_douglass_july4?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=02fadae919-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-02fadae919-192501705

  

Did you say I?

Ayeaye I did he smiled wrylyvery pleased with himself  he was high

his face responded screwedup into slantedgrimace   unhumoured 

                                                                            he finally sputtered You hardly ever say I.

I don

What possessed you?

I donknow 

              Yabeen possessed

I suppose that would depend upon your definition of possessed, wouldn’t it?

No 

No? he tipped his head like a dog hearing a whistle only he could hear Care to explain?

I can listen Ya define possessed I said I didnt know

ball was in his court he wasnt a storyteller frankly he couldnt tell a story to save his life he didnt have compoundeyes like a bug he didnt want to see things inside and out and aroundrather steadfast steadyashegoes he had binocular vision and wasnt interested in what he couldnt see 

                                                       whatever might be over the horizon held no fascination he wasnt keen to try and exercise his imagination 

Ya gonna say

No. I don’t think I will.

Well Ill not either  I wouldnt know where to begin 

                                                      However thank ya for noting I said I  Your ears work

1234 or 0034,  Saturday,  4  7. 21

1109,  Sunday,  the Fourth of July 2021

Sons of Kemet  The Book of Disquiet  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3bTnax-bTM

 

You think everything you say ought to be recorded?

      Hell why not Why do you think I have these toetotoe battlesconversations with corporate underlings who have their heads up their ass and believe were gonna to submit to corporate dalliance without complaint or rancor 

This call may be recorded for quality and security purposes.   

Horseshit Inside every call tree yare assured by a recorded voice calls may be recorded No Ask for a transcript Theyll say they have to submit a request  curtly Submit   That will take twentyfour to seventytwo hours.   Okay Fine Todays Tuesday morning Ill expect a telephone call Friday morning  Seventytwo hours  that hangs like shitty coils of flypaper in the phone line  Youve called their bluff  An likewise youve given them ample opportunity to admit that not every call is recorded  akin to the threat of a surveillance camera in a lobby is recording  which isnt legitimate  the cameras a mockup  its sole purpose is to inspire fear

Inspire fear?

Were basted in fear

Do you think you’re fearless?

Fear Whas the point 

                       Fears a leverage Everyone paranoidlooking over their shoulder they walkout into traffic get runover THATS their faultthey werent watchin where they were going 

That’s interesting.

Innarestin is ambivalent Try again

 

So your every utterance should to be recorded?

Why not What I say might be garbage but then one mans garbage is another mans treasure

Tone is recordedits nuances rhythms pauses emphases   All tells  all telling wha comes out of my mouth arent lies 

Yare knitting your brow

they quit

Yare stroking your chin

they quit

Yare worrying your lips

they quit 

Ya oughta listen to me asif I was whispering 

                                               Listen intently asif yare hard of hearing  because I am easily worth the price of admissionmy words are like drops of rain on parched earth a gentle wash soothing an exhausted body soothing tired eyes an appeasing murmur in your ears like a melodious songbird  unlike lies desperatewanting to be believed true

My voice comes from behind a mask you most want to see your deceit my words cradle you theyre coloured whirlingvapours the smell of incenses they live inside flickering quivering small candleflames

Listen to me 

             Become a child again without notions of hurt without anger without doubt

Be pinkskinned again wideeyed gentle 

                                           Take my words like mothersmilk  your eyelids growing heavy as you suckle and closing and suckling you dreamdream fantastic dreams fearless dreams  Why my words ought to be recorded

Yacant possibly note them verbatim or commit to memory

They have to be recorded

An when were lied to those lies need to be called out held up 

Theyre liars    

0138,  Sunday,  19  1. 92

1621,  Saturday,  3  7. 21