a flaccid American flag uplit by a solarpowered spotlight

he wouldnt have it

he would have retired the flag at sunset

folded it with someone at arms

the flag was hung by two they installed the flagpole  kind of completed their compoundcastlekeep new fencing new masonry walls new electricallyoperated steel gates            

                                                      it made absolute sense to let it hang lighted at night at least they did that otherwise theyd have to leave the safety of their walls to retire it

 

people like to name things

he was dying to learn what they called their place now

                                                            an address would be feeble

2357,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  20  7. 21

1227,  Thursday,  22  7. 21

Nucleus  Oasis  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVOhLttLnhE 

  

the vote on Colorado House Representative Jason Crow’s bill to enlarge the number immigration visas for Afghan interpreters and their families passed the House today  407 - 16 

                                                                     the 16 were Republicans

Andy Biggs  AZ

Lauren Boebert  CO

Mo Brooks  AL

Scott DesJarlais  TN

Jeff Duncan  SC

Robert Good  VA

Paul Gosar  AZ

Greene  GA

Kevin Hern OK

Jody Hice  GA

Thomas Massie  KY

Felix Moore  AL

Scott Perry  PA

Bill Posey  FL

Matt Rosendale  MT

Chip Roy  TX

its good to know who of us are willing to dishonour Americas word to her allies

2042,  Thursday,  22  7. 21

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/07/22/congress-afghanistan-jason-crow-boebert/

 

You know who said that, of course?

yah thats how he talks 

                          cant let it lieleave it as You know who said that? cant ask a question without implying ifya don know somehow yare not up to snuffhavent sufficient mettle

                                                               he seemed to depend to thrive on that confidence

for himself ofcourse he recognised the quote it was one beat to death but because he quipped it time and again he disconnected chose not to remember he let him have and enjoy his moment in the sun

he wasnt fond of quotes he preferred to fashion his own words

                                                                   however he noticed his distinct proclivity to repeat Oscar Wilde to him Wilde whose abundant quotes were often assembled and published in slick slender volumes which may mean he hadnt actually read Wilde but rather only his pithy quotations

what tweaked himwhat he on more than one occasion had been explicit For someone reticentsomeone uncomfortable with homosexuality you cite Wilde often almost as often as you call to my attention some guy running in the park  Noticing men isnt in my wheelhouse No breasts no interest Capisce

he pshawed him

he let his pshaw stand

Who said Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching? he had been a teacher

he shrugged 

Oscar Wilde.

he mediatedretorted I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I say.

You?

Wilde Who said I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member?

Will Rogers.

No Groucho Marx Marx however didnt write The Communist Manifesto The correct answer would be Marx and Friedrich Engels did

                     Who said Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong?

You?

Sounds like me no Wilde again he beat me to the punch Being dead before I was born keeps him in the catbird seat

You understand that you prefer your quips to my quirks an I my quirks to your memorised quipsquotes  I choose not to fix or annotate mine

 

Wanna revisit your discomfort about homosexuals

That term's passe, it’s not politically-correct.

But then theres no doubt wha Im talking about   And

We’re not talking about it.

When the time comes Ill happily listen

Get off it, would you?

Kindly

1604,  Saturday,  17  7. 21

1613,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  21  7. 21

Emancipator  When I Go  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DmZ4of3w7o

 

Sigh 

     The –gh is silent  like silent –b words  numb tomb crumb  if buried one becomes

Why are you laboring to explain the pronunciation of sigh?

Because

          I wanna to make sure that if I apply to that market as a bagger nothing precedes itnothing is silent that theres nothing they let languish that they should have admitted before I accept a job

A bagger’s a bagger . .

. . Until it aint

For the love of Mike . .

. . For the love of Pete For that sake for the love of Christ letem all get into it have a part because it wasnt explained it was withheld during the final interview and job offer

I'm having a hard time stitching these vague threads together; what the hell are you talking about?

Im talking concerns I have about unspecified duties or requirements  unidentified during the course of my application interview and offer

Silent lette . .

. . Particularly silent letters

Back down, getting a little harsh; what particular silent letters?

One in particular T

A silent t

Tsunami Tchaikovsky 

Okay. Good examples. I understand. But what, however, does that have to do with anything, or anything to do with performing as a bagger?

DO I HAVE TO BE MORE SPECIFIC

Apparently I’m dense.

Yare

Careful.

          Enlighten me. Filled in the blank. I haven’t a clue what you’re getting at.

T – bagger Ts silent Or tea-bagger t-e-a better

                                                  I aint t-bagging aint tea-bagging Silent t

More.

Whamore ya need

I don’t understand what you mean.

Tea-bagging

No. What’s tea-bagging?

Oh man how is it you arent deadhow is it as old as yare that ya havent heard of tea-bagging

Maybe . . because . . . I’m unlike you.

You can say that again

                         If tea-bagging I aint doin it for minimum wage

Are you going to tell me?

Ill let you swallow the sip of beer youre going to take first

 

Aah, that’s tasty.

Good All swallowed

Swallowed.

So apropos I couldnt have scripted this

You want to get on with it; enlighten me?

Indeed Let me take you out of the dark Tea-bag Place ones balls in the mouth of another

                                                                                              Nothanks Not at minimum wage

I’ve . I've never heard of that.

Dontake my word for it look it up on your ever trusty steedyour smartphone

T-E-A bag gobble gobble gobble Talkin turkey now

1550, Saturday,  20  7. 21

1456,  Twosday,  20  7. 21

 

he hadnt heard that one before

                                 a hot one Matt Schlapp heads up the CPAC head the Conservative Political Action Committee  which in recent years has gone apeshitgone around the bend apeshit  as in insane

                                                                                                      YES he knows he shouldnt point an pulled the triggerINSANE but he hadnt any patience for craphadnt patience for loogiedrivel

Schlapp remarkedfirst time he ever heard it pronounced  Chinese corona

                                                                              an all he came away with was the Knack 

My Sharona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2JtsVumFA

if that minimises Schlapps word

                                 One get a better last name   Two  CPAC reminded him of herpes

1808,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  21  7. 21

this conversation couldnt have come at a better time 

                                                       everythings better while stoned

and parts of the conversationbit and pieces are better because they never get out of the can  ruminated but not enunciated  then better yet when you take exceptionget a little hot under the collar  youre disregardedlike your thought wasnt worth comment or debate 

                                  WHAT DO YOU THINK 

What are you talking about?

Wha I said

Said? You haven’t said anything, you been staring off into space.

I didnt say 

Not a word.

Well 

        Suppose that means I cant be a Pentecostalist

What do you mean by that?

Cant trust me to vocalise fluent

What do you mean by that? I’m repeating myself, am I repeating myself? why am I repeating myself? his eyes grew larger with each refrain

Yare stoned 

I am.

        Where were you?

Vocalise fluent

What do you mean by that? he cocked his head to a side like a dog you expect understands what you said to them or a child unable to comprehendwithout the vocabulary to take in what you told them  youre just talking out loud to yourself

I meanan I find it ridiculous glossolalia Ive been accused of that while going down on a girl talking she didnt understand a wordI don remember what I was saying but she certainly liked my enunciationhow my mouth and tongue moved

        enthusiastically she nearly smothered me

but I digress 

              unintelligible utterances  Pentecostalists articulate airquotes a natural language  its previously unknown to them  Ooohspooky  xenoglossy  speaking in tongues   Gibberish jabberers 

                                                                                 Christ

Hey now yare staring off into space

I am, I am, only because I’m hanging on every word, looking off I can better concentrate on what you’re saying . . you laid a couple of big words on me, I understand them, however you dont usually hear them pronounced in conversation, usually I read them in a book . . not said . quite the hurtle, man.

But ya followed

I did, I did . . he looked at him  I did.

Either omne trium perfectum or epizeuxis  which one

Too soon, man, too soon, I’m high.

Repeating yourself for emphasis

Ah, I am doing a bit of that.

Its awright

             Yare high

I is. Aye aye, Captain.

So yathink its possible right now since were high that were vocalising fluentlywe understand each other like Pentecostals but people around usif theyre listening think were gibberjabbering 

                                                                                    or speaking Slavic or Yiddish

he tried to staunch his erupting laughter with his lips but spit on him 

                                                                           So sorry, man. he gurgled then gleefully returned to what grew into a full-on belly laugh  how stoners laugh

 

they had saved the world for another day

1524,  Saturday,  17  7. 21

1306,  Twosday,  20  7. 21

Classic IV  Spooky  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpo9KZYJ4sA 

   1010

         usually hed go with 2210   but he liked the look of 1010 

those who knew him were thrown that he used military time

Areya full of shit its accurateno confusion past noon add twelve ya too lazy to do basic arithmetic too lazy to think  Anit doesnt belong to the military any more than blessed belongs to the church  I use it an theres no way in hell Id consent to a religious implication

he felt in his bones it was after twentytwohunred hours  he just wanted to know exactly wha time it was

he was going to take a cool bath  he sweated through an eighth day of a hunredplus  hed rather lay in his bed cool and clean and let sleep snatch him before he began sweating again

he lit a blue pillarcandle lavenderscented 

it coloured the bathroom underwater

innerspace coalescing with outerspace free movement in any direction 

                                                                         it was disorienting  anthere wasnt anything he liked more than being disoriented

but it got him by the balls tonightstruck music in his head  his soundtrack

for whateverreason this evening his DJ opted to play tunes that were tethered to deaths of families and friends Big Head Todd and the Monsters  Circle Israel Kamakawiwo’ole  medley of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World Daniela Andrade  Creep . .   

                                                GET OFF MY BACK

Shaddup

          or Ill throw on some spurs an really dig in  this is topshelf stuff

Theyre on the topshelf to keepem out of the reach of children like medicines poisons hard liquor

Yafound ways to climbup your grandmothers cupboard

My heads not a cupboard

I know Im shakin free cobwebs going to them because yare notwont on yer own Im givin ya a nudge

Im not playinem to be cruel

                             Look woudya  look at all those marvelous memories at play in your eyes 

DJ wasnt being dishonest 

he could see

exquisite montages

Starring

          his loved ones who had died

it was hard to watch them through his tears

 

it was a buddys birthday  if someone years from now asked him what he was doing at 1010 on Sunday 18 July 2021 hed remember 

                  I was taking a cool bath on a hot night remembering music and dancing

     

SunnyDay,  18  7. 21

1234,  Monday,  19  7. 21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZyT5IugA0A   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Ooxpz0Eqk   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjlaN-X8-0

 

Ohios Jim Jordan 

                    “We know what this is. This is impeachment Round3 . . . What are they going to do? The same old thing, go after President Trump.”

hell be sitting on the Houses January6 investigation hes a lackey a bootlick  few get their tongue into places he willingapparently anxious to lick

its not an impeachment the Former isnt sitting

the Former was a president hes an ex  his ex wives don call him their husband

the United States has one president at one time

Jordan will be shrill

try to be disruptive

hell be slapped down

put in his place 

have his nose rubbed in it

wonder what hell name his bleeding ulcer

2114,  Twosday,  20  7. 21

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/07/19/rep_jim_jordan_joins_jan_6th_committee_this_is_impeachment_round_3_to_go_after_president_trump.html

pandemic among Americas unvaccinated 99 percent of recent deaths

it harkened him back to a time he was fortunate enough to live through 

                                                                                youll follow

Die, baby, die  genetics 

                         Watts not whats   hes hardpressed to have sympathy for stupid

1837,  Twosday,  20  7. 21

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-cases-deaths-infections-vaccines-abbce96a-3e31-459e-a09f-41d88bb0f749.html 

https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=7476 

 

he carried on about a beautiful dark woman a Jewess a professional – he didnt say what kind – he met her on-line

on a dating app

                 he didnt ask him which app although he did say from what he hearddigested she was direct

Oh man, yeah, her resume is amazing, like she wrote from an outline.

A resume is that what its called online

Perhaps not, I suppose, it’s what I call it, their statement, they address what they like or dislike, you know, what makes them tick, turns them on, turns them off.

Are they lengthy

Some are, however I prefer brevity, I’d assume brevity is prefe . .

. . Because ya prefer it

Yeah, come on; you like things that go on and on?

On an on ya understand that a woman is putting herself out there genuinely hoping yare not a clown shes tryin to define herself interest someone

                                   Whas that say about you

Just a thought

Yare brief 

I think I’ve struck a good balance. 

An the Jewess Shes obviously got chutzpah

Chutzpah?

Audacious

I know what chutzpah is.

                           And why do you say that?

By what youve related Sounds like her resume asya say  has bullet-points

No, there’s no bullet-points, it’s not bang bang bang.

Sounds bang bang

It isn’t.

Actually it sounds BAMBAM BAM

It’s not.

She sounds like a .44 Magnumlike she knows what she wants an aint a damn thing wrong with that

Well, she is direct.

As directdon take this wrong  as yare wishy-washy

Wishy-washy, are you kidding me?

Bro yawant everyone to like youya donwanna be swiped left  so yare breadcrumbing fear getting ghosted

You’re not on-lin . .

. . Never

Let me finish . .  you’re not on-line, why do you know the terminology?

Are you shitting me

No. I'd like to know.

Howbout I listen to you when you talk to me

                                                Ya might wanna read listen to what these women write Particular if yare matched

I am . .

. . Youve said

                    I just donwanna work that hard 

Mebbe save the money yare spending on these apps and go pro

Go pro?

Figure it outyare clever

1511,  Saturday,  17  7. 21

1121,  Twosday,  20  7. 21

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/breadcrumbing-to-obliga-swiping-these-are-the-new-dating-terms.html

Sparklehorse  It’s a Wonderful Life  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vKhVUhX6_M

 

Aaah

     he couldnt go off to bed leave her alone until tomorrow 

not a real good bet shed sneak in later and join him 

the night before was unexpected uncomfortable

                                                hed never had a choice from among four willing women who appealed to him between two he wouldnt have been disappointed if it were a coin toss 

                                                                                heads or tails

had it pleasured him he could have randomly paired them tossed twice pair the winners toss a third time 

                                                                                                              winner by luck

whos really enthused winning by dumb luck dumb people 

what would coin tosses say about him

                                            or her

that wont do letem compete 

he thought outside the box 

letem swing for the fence

letem strike a pose  Vogue

                            on fourpost canopied beds the gothic hall was enormous 

she took it hands downshe was arresting 

VOGUE

       she knelt she assumed a mockChrist crucified arms flung out shoulderheight hands adangle wrists rigidspiked she held her head up fixed him with her deepbrown eyes  she was naked no embarrassmentProud an attractive bodylarge round breastsround inquisitive aureoles legs slightly spread  a silkenshaved chevron 

she talked to him without speaking

she was in his head

he was in hers

 

unexpected

uncomfortable

she was in his peripheral the whole day he didnt want to close his eyes

fearful he would lose her

exhausted he invited her to bed and fell asleep 

she wasnt there when he woke

early AM,  Saturday,  17  7. 21

1302,  SunnyDay,  18  7. 21

Madonna  Vogue  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJQSAiODqI 

“Greta Garbo and Monroe

Dietrich and DiMaggio

Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean

On the cover of a magazine

“Grace Kelly, Harlow, Jean

Picture of a beauty queen

Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire

Ginger Rogers, dance on air

“They had style, they had grace

Rita Hayworth gave good face

Lauren, Katherine, Lana too

Bette Davis, we love you

“Ladies with an attitude

Fellas that were in the mood

Don't just stand there, let's get to it

Strike a pose, there's nothing to it”

Kylie Minogue  Can’t Get You Out of My Head  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18441Eh_WE                                                     

                                          

                           have faith

he could tell you the first timethe only time he sought faith   he couldnt say he had it 

check your baseline stats

                           heart  pulse  bloodpressure  lungs  respiration   then ask yourself the last time you had faith

it is not grace

              it doesnt fall into your lap 

faith isnt mystical its indoctrination 

                                      baptism  Holy Communion  Confirmation  bat and bar mitzvahs  world religions  definitely evangelism

that shits just exercises

that shits not real worldnot street    book learning

                                                     theory

 

he bought in when his daughter had a gastrostomy tube placed  he asked the physician She can have it removed when she doesnt need it anymore he said Yes.

                                            he didnt lie

 

when faith fell away

                           it took gobsgouts out of his heart 

0923,  Day-between-Two-Ts.  14  7. 21

1158,  Saturday,  17  7. 21

Sparklehorse  Eyepennies  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcam-P0Y90Q

 

   I think I quit listenin to ya

                                 Yare talkin about Damocles right

Who?

The name yare tryin to say is Damocles The sword of Damocles

How do you say it?

Dam – o – cles they had some real character to their names in the daydidnt they   Bob

Yes, they . . say, what are you getting at?

Gettinat

          The sword of Bob Oooh Im shiverin in my boots 

I'm going to ignore you.  Dam-o-cles.

Correct

Damocles.

Thereya go ya got it 

                      Damocles  Bob

Would you let that go? he exasperated him 

                                           You know the story?

I know the story but Im enthralled an excited to hear your retelling of it given ya struggled with Damocles   Bob colour rose in his face Comnow don get upset  Im listenin now 

Why are you such a prick?

Prick  Maybe because rather than butchering the name over an over ya say I donknow how to pronounce his name Three syllables I think yaonce took it to fivesix asya sputtered to get it out  Gotta know when to ask for help

An now yare sidetracked anya havent a fuckin clue why you brought it up 

Do you

I don’t remember.

See how easy that was to admit.

                                   So  possibly paranoia the perils of power change places the prince and the pauper Mark Twain Samuel Clemens Jovenel Moise shot to death in his bed yaknow they woke him up before they shot him right how ironichuh we wish to die in our sleep in our beds but they woke him so he knew he was a dead man  Im with the assassins on that 

Really?

I donknow but I do like black humour 

                                       The perils of power

Kennedy warned Americans they lived under the nuclear sword of Damocles Who knew that a single horsehair could holdup a scimitar wha type of knot secures it who tied the knot a novice for a merit badge a bondage master before Id accept the mantle of power Id wanna know who tied the knot how old the horse was an does the gallows the sword dangles from follow me everywhere I go

Oh An  Theres no compulsion in religion The Qur’an Spelled q-u-r-apostropheapostasyapostate-a-n  Swords dangle everywhere 

              Sorry your story

No thank you. Let’s move on, move along; that's too much shit to unpack.

Please Give me one turd woudja 

Sorry, man, it went in one ear and out the other.

Yare a real conversationalist   Bob 

                                      Ya understand there will never be a sword of Bobright

A simple question at last, I understand, I do. 

1501,  Saturday,  17  7. 21

309preferred or 1509,  SunnyDay,  18  7. 21