Hemingway The Sun Also Rises

                                    “It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

he met a string of people this was new to him who slept in installments for lack of a better word when they woke they used the bathroom got a sip of water laid back down if sleep wasnt quick to return they didnt wait for it they got up out of bed went into another room read  did crossword puzzles

onetwo hours latertired they returned to bed for a second installment  or not

it didnt often happen to himThank gawd

when his sleep was breached he relieved himselfthough more often it was for a sip of water allayed his dry mouthhe was a mouthbreather

                       You shouldn’t breathe through your mouth. heard it once heard it a hunred times

Break your nose four times then talk to me about ithuh

                                                         didnt take kindly to solicitationsPious  Pissants   Wittgenstein  Seventh proposition Body of Christ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.  they hadnt walked in his shoesPiss off he wasnt one to waste his breathe or time

                                                            he always kept a few drams in his bladder to moisten the toes of their fine handsome leathered shoes or bare toes

he hadnt invite them to get in his face

some people believe its their right

wherein actions have consequences

he wasHA consequential

when people admitted to installments he didnt ask what woke themwhat they thought

                                                                                            he listened

if they wanted to say

                       he listened

he couldnt alleviate their waking

                                    ball was in their court

unable to relate he did not say

No, really man, what do you think?

Please Im of no matter Its what you think

if they insisted

                Father Son Holy Ghost Hemingway Awfully easy to be hard-boiled in the daytime nights another thing Yare contending with something that casts a long shadowshadows

                                                                       Not likely a coin toss

he backpedaled 

none of his business

1823,  Saturday,  28  8. 21

2318,  Saturday,  28  8. 21

Lennon  Whatever Gets You Through the Night  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNNxeovdN5U

Black Panthers  Chicago  '69

                                      Revolution is the only solution  Revolution is the only solution

he thanked his lucky stars he wasnt born black

                                                   he wouldnt pray

         had he been

                         he would have been dead long ago

2002, Sunday,  29  8. 21

Judas and the Black Messiah

 

allott looked an awful lot like alloff like the command of a train conductor End of the line. Everyone all off! who in their right mind would refuse a staidstarched and pressed nononsense buttoneddown uniformed train conductor  they must not have seen Borgnines sadistic performance Emperor of the North bouncing Lee Marvin off the train an nobody bounces Lee Marvin

had to be a typo

                  or pure ignorance or they ignored WORDs reprimandits evitable underlined correction  or it was predictive text runamok just asking for it

                                               technology does that

its excused if it did

who fingered itYOU fingered it

its your fault isnt it  you didnt read whaya wrote before you sent it

technology has inbred plausible deniability

its artificial intelligence

youre notyoure the real McCoy real intelligence  arent you

buck stops with youought to stop with you

                                            NOOoo    The machine made me do it

whos whose bitch 

he looked aroundWheres his riding crop  he didnt ride but he liked its tautnessthe sharp smell of its worked pliable leatherWhere were his spurs he liked their keenclang as he struttedthey made him strutthe brightsparks off cleanconcrete like flint and steel

Walshit he was the bitch

when had that happenwhen did he go ass over teakettle

                                                                apparently he didnt mind

         allott

                       alloff         thats how his mind worked

it was all he could do to keep ahead of it

                                             obviously that wasnt working out for him

some time Sunday,  30  5. 10

2322,  Reggae Friday,  27  8. 21

McCartney and Wings  Let’em In  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXdIyS85emM

 

Walker Percy

               “The novelist or poet (painter  creator) in the future might be able to go (furthur), to discover how it is with man himself (if hes not a liar), who he is (if hes not a liar), and how it is between him and other men.” 

philosopher  semioticist better than semiotician

Percy please   Men

at a time when the male gender was considered the appropriate proper pronoun how gouache an ache in his balls

he didnt grasp the unremitting deference to men they get to have their cake and eat it too anit didnt matter if majority was women  THAT HAD to drive them apeshit 

old men were still little boys who had to have their noses wiped clothes cleaned food prepared for

                                                                                                        a whiny lot

thats why he didnt fit inhis mother wouldnt let him fit in

she best expressed it when he was a young teen and protested that he didnt want to do womens workSHE SLAPPED HIS FACE shocked himbrought him smackdab into the moment                                                                                                                                           If you think you’re leaving this house, my house, and being a bum some woman has to take care of, you’re out of your mind, you have another thing coming, buster. 

hurt his feelings she called him a bum

Walker Percy was a man of his timehis protagonists alienated upper-middle-class men  write what you know  he died in 1990

its now Percys Future

thirty years after his death man is no more familiar with himself than while Percy was alive

                                                                                                 in fact hes in retrograde  degenerating   degenerates  particularly those akin to Percy protagonists

when he tells family friends that he does not SEE men  its not hyperbolehe does not   women appeal to him  here in the Future if men could be more like women he may be able to SEE those marled vapours that could coalesce  condense begin to form the fog of menthough  he didnt have high hopes 

Time is running out

Step aside gents 

Let the women through

                                possibly the Future

some time Sunday,  30  5. 10

1124,  Saturday,  28  8. 21

he blamed Tolstoy

Hadji Murat

             the fleeting corruptible nature of national and religious identity

The Prisoner of the Caucasus

                               “The night were short. He saw light through a chink.”

mined alien words  aoul  saklya  beshmet he hadnt a cluethey could be whatever he wanted 

attempts to bridge the crevasse of otherness

                                                 Otherness  a tactic  a conscious prejudice divider

he blamed Dostoevsky

Notes from the Underground

The Brothers Karamazov

he blamed his daughters for making him read them again  they were books they had been assigned for their high school Advanced English  backing them up they had scintillating discussions of passages and chapters

                                                                                                      they wouldnt have been able to get through them if it hadnt been for himBOSH

                                                              an also if it hadnt been for him they said  they wouldnt have gotten through Shakespeare either he was a sucker for Shakespeare 

it seems people  we  have learned to distrust stories with messageswe disdain writers who bear ideas or ideologues which is what writers do

                            we do not like moralisers we do not want to be preached at we do not believe in answers or in endings

          our Faith is in ambiguity complexity irresolution doubt

                                                                       ambiguity   complexity   irresolution   doubt 

Life isnt that simple

Kikazaru

Mizaru

Iwazaru

monkeys

Hear No Evil

See No Evil

Speak No Evil

               he disagreed with evil  evil presumes religiosity  he didnt believe in religion  therefore nothing was evil though some things were bad or really really bad

                                              not evil

very likely written – ink looked the same – some time Sunnyday  13  6. 10

1300,  Thursday,  26  8. 21

 

Junkie

Nelson Algren

Have Golden Gun will travel

Chicago is my kind of town

Hot shot  sounds crazy man

1829,  Thursday,  27  8. 21

a pensee

Title: Subject (2 syllables)

Line 1:  Description (4 syllables)

Line 2:  Action (7 syllables)

Line 3:  Setting (8 syllables)

Line 4:  Final thought (6 syllables) 

to be a comedian

is to be able to tell the truth

without getting killed

                               thats the premise 

he wasnt killed but Lenny Bruce was persecutedCarlin  he had seven dirty words

deep breath shitpissfuckcuntcocksuckermotherfuckertits   a stream of consciousness

he certainly used them to compliment his stream

                                                  James Joyce  obscenity charges   he was fucking hilarious 

Henry Miller  bawdy brilliant hilarious too

didnt kill them for telling the truthhounded themthreatened their livelihoods threatened their freedom

                                                                                                         didnt kill em

Lifes a comedy club

                      Cant take a joke stay the fuck out       Really

Pocket your ticket 

Come back when its sanitisedNEVER

Wherever it is youre at must be more pleasant

Please  please

                   Do us the simple favourDONT dont come in 

The water aint fine

I peed in it

2142,  Saturday,  21  8. 21

1417,  Thursday,  26  8. 21

https://www.biography.com/news/george-carlin-seven-words-supreme-court 

7 words  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAkPudcbNz0 

 

he had just written on comedy

went to his next page of notes

read the top of the pagebursted into laughter

Baby if he hadnt a sense of humour he would have laid down long ago an died

                                                                                    he lived for shit like this

MARUTA

          his deep abiding pursuit of reading and vigilant head-on-a-swivelif he wasnt walkingreading  together developed a trove of useless information inane trivia that when pricked dribbled out

                                                                                         Why do I know that   Because once upon a time you confronted it idiot

he liked when he had his back

there were a whole lot of them

he was faceted like a gemstone

Sowhas Maruta refresh my memory

Well Im tickled theres actually a Maruta an Asian market and deli in Georgetown Seattle Washington I also read about Maruta

         I really hope theyre being tongue an cheek wink wink nod nod Next time Im up visiting my daughter Ill stop in an ask

Yes you will

Indubitably

Just had to say that   

Indubitably

             Teed ya up like a golfball

Dimples not facets

You yah I can only wish I had dimples

They wouldnt suit you

Cleft Kurt Douglas chin

No Your scars suit you

Thank you for noticing

Youre welcome

he had such polite facetswhen they wanted to be usually they were as coarse as he

Maruta

Ofcourse  Yes

               Its a Japanese code name for victims of human experimentation during World War Two The thousands who diedwere killed were Chinese and Korean people No hair off our American chinny chin chins   Three Little Pigs   Yes the Three Little Pigs Good   Thank you   Yabetcha

I thought then as I read about Maruta they must have thought Nazis not got nuthin on us

Ouch

Yes perhaps but murder of the Other has always been our wayour human way Once upon a time there were six hominids  now just our homo sapiens  bet your bottom dollar that wasnt an Ooops  it was an exterminationthe extermination of the Other

Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army Their cover story to Chinese locals in Pingfang was they were operating a lumber mill  Somewhat commiserate to lines Nazis handed Polish locals

                                                                          Nothing to see here

When someonewhen your enemy insists theres nothing to see in your own backyard  look

I was astonished

I don think I was here at the time

Possible I never know whos coming or going

                                                      Lifes funny

 

Sunday,  30  5. 10

1537,  Thursday,  26  8. 21

 

War Edwin Starr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJRJpbGkG4

Get on with yourself Arkansas Senator Cot--Ton

                                                  https://video.foxnews.com/v/6269788686001#sp=show-clips

Get on with yourselves Texas Rep Dan Crenshaw Tennessee Rep Mark Green

                                                                                 https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-hawks-rage-that-they-want-their-forever-war-back-after-kabul-attack

Get on EX-servicemen

Get on go byebye  Do not cross GO do not collect $200 

                                                           It hurts I imagine

Attention gentlemen your bloody Forever War is gone

                                                        eighteentoo many years too long  too much money  too many Afghan civilian and military  American  Allies blood

1713,  Reggae Friday,  27  8. 21

its tough to divine his sense of tacky

                                       he had it bucco   aplenty

he thought it was his before he made his trip acrossaroundazigzag America on a motorcycle during Namduring his avoiding the draft until he determined if he wanted to fight in a war that was not existentialthat he saw it as not existential was a strong hint he wasnt going to war

his parents were freaked out

                               You can’t walk away from this thing until you’re good and ready.

I can an I am They come knockin you let them know for me Ill get in touch with them when I return   if I return

They’ll throw you in jai . .

. . Then every American boy ought to tell the government to suck their dickthey cant imprison every eighteenyear old from here on outprisons bursting at the seams with young men who say No

                                                                           No

Seems you’re pretty well decided, son.

Seems I am but since Ive never been out in the world on my own time to kick a few cans a few rocks an see if theres anything hiding there I might have missed

                                              Seems like the common sense you raised me to have

so riding took him to many unsavory places filthy gas station bathrooms  rooms let one bathroom per floor sharing with

unusually dirty people which was to say they were the most colourful characters he ever ran across in his lifethough he wouldnt turn his back on them  they were raw   technicoloured

he missed the top of toilet tanks top of urinals

                                                  he missed the nicotine stains cigarette scorches the decipherable undecipherable marks which were brothers to the blackmarker graffiti scrawled on stall partitions and palegreen tiled splashbacks and walls the occasional ceilingsCHRIST too bad whomever did that didnt use their ambition in some other manner

he missed the cigarettes butts clogging the urinal catchestheir rollickinrubbinrollin the soaked disintegrating cigarettes flicked into toilets

he missed the eyeball at the gloryholes the whinyplaintive voices from the other side  guess it didnt hurt to try

he never had to hurt anyone

those experiences and visuals only heightened his sense of tacky  rarifying it 

his wife said My, aren’t you THE connoisseur.

he smiled warmlyhappily at her derisiondislike he didnt hide anything from hershe knew exactly what she was getting now if she thought she could change him that was her mistake not his theirs tastes differed she never had to spend any time in a gymroom a mens lockerroom  fuckin pigs

                                                           Cant con a sewer baby It knows exactly the lay of the land an the kind of clowns that inhabit it

she spoke through an exaggerated grimace Don’t call me baby, baby.

                                                                     made him laugh  I love ya

2ish 1400ish,  Sunday,  22  8. 21

1156,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  25  8. 21

Billy Joel  Uptown Girl  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0Oect0nVQ & We Didn’t Start the Fire  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqkjYKUXERQ

 

Republican senators Heehaw Hawley and matronly Blackburn called for President Biden to resign over the horrific attack today in Kabul

had they been serving in the Senate when 240 Marines and Navy sailors were killed in a massive bombing in Lebanon would they have demanded Reagans resignation

                                                     no one asked them

2121,  Thursday,  26  8.21

he didnt hear a word from their mouths of condolences for 13 dead American soldiers or scores of Afghanis

PS  Bush 9/11

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/569610-gop-sen-blackburn-calls-for-biden-to-resign                                                                  https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019/10/23/1983-beirut-barracks-bombing-the-blt-building-is-gone/

  

he was watching the White House presser this evening by Jen Psaki about the ISIL attack today on the humanitarian Kabul airlift

               active ongoing threats continue 

this attack is unfortunate proof the Taliban is ineffectual

                                                             and yetYET  America also is engaged in active ongoing threats by a homegrown death cult of anti-vaxxers their Republican political allies by upsidedown White supremacists

1751,  Thursday,  26  8. 21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daBD5onYji4

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/08/26/what-is-isis-k-or-is-k-this-afghan-terror-group---and-taliban-enemy---is-suspected-in-kabul-airport-bombing/?sh=561f71f92687

One hit wonders

Osama bin Laden

Donald Trump

each devastating

except bin Ladens dead

1843,  Thursday,  26  8. 21

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-osama-bin-laden-only-had-one-hit-2021-8

when they moved in they decidedwhich meant she decidedwhich meant he could care less theyd lose the existing miniscule showerhead

she bought the biggest one he had ever seen

hexagonal

eight inches side to side

cast an amazing spraywhich meant while he was behind her hed still get wet 

never didnt mind showering behind her

coming or going she was worth his undivided attention

now she wasnt there

the showerhead reminded him every time he showered

 

some thing he hadnt expected happened

  strange

          at night  soaking  a tumblerthreefingers of whisky over his left shoulder resting on the tubs moldedfiberglass edge under pale flickering candlelight in lavender oil scented water the showerhead moved

it looked down on him deployed straight forth

when he finished a shower he angled the head to the side wall away from the curtain 

next time he showered he didnt have to worry about spray splashing off him onto the linoleum floor

                                                                                                         reasonable

why not

the water was hot

it wasnt that hothe wasnt in long enough to be impaired overheated he had occasions though not recently

he looked again  it was angled to the wall

eyes playing tricks on him 

he relaxed sipped his whisky

                              while sipping it turned its head to him he heard its neck creak he had sympathy he disliked when his neck creakedcracked he assumed by shots he took to the side of the head while sparring

it creaked leftangled towards the collapsed curtain

Don ya fuckin dare he said aloud 

it creaked back facing him

Wha up

he wasnt against conversing with an animatedinanimate objecthe talked to people he was surprised but he wasnt against it

it remained mute

Should I fill in the blank

its head creaked up creaked down creaked to face him again

Easy one

            Im not her

somehow it distended itself towards him

A bitchaint it

he halfexpected the series of arced rubberised spigots to form a face to express the bitch it was

                                                                                                     rather the head tipped down dejectedly no creak

Were in agreement

                    Nothing to be done  Time will tell he had sympathy 

the head lifted its chin and receded

he held his glass up Heres to maybe took another sip

                                                          Yaknowman  stranger things have happenedhe wasnt being sarcastic

reaching back over his left sighing he set the tumbler down

                                                             Stranger things have happened

hearing a creak he raised his eyes and caught the showerhead returning to the angle he usually positioned it at to the side wall

Goodthoughts  Think good thoughts

he slipped down deeper into the waterclosed his eyes

if the showerhead creaked anymore he missed it his ears were underwater 

         goodthoughts

                        he always had good thoughts when he thought of her                                   

0008,  Twosday,  24  8. 21

1205,  Twosday,  24  8. 21

Kip Hanrahan  Faith in the pants, not in the prick  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTfBibcqca8        

        

KALI

in black magicmarker

on a graypainted metal partition

its support stanchions rusting from piss  

in a Bakersfields strip mall bathroom

next door to a Boots and Western Wear

he scrawled ALEX JONES SUCKS COCK 

                                            although DeSANTIS SUCKS IT BETTER

real original

                    but what made it primo was the two rednecks who walked in as he finished scribbling

they made a racket coming in

loud

     obnoxious

intelligent

                    Whaddaya think yare doin?

he pulled down his bandit mask  coughed twice

                                                            Me cough

Headin over to coughcough   Mercy  spit on the tiled floor gotta play the part   Ey think eys caught the virus

they spunpinwheeled round left without as much as a howdy doody

                                                                        he hurled Youse anti-vaxxers at their backs 

laughed ruefully  spit again

they were also gullible

had to be

           how gullible to be part of a death cultKALI

shine UV light inside themselves

ingest disinfectants CLOROX byallmeans

hydroxychloroquine

but theyve outdone themselves

                                  ivermectin

gotta figure they didnt understand the FDAs  You are not a horse. a dewormer  the word doesnt even look pretty

he wondered if Rand Paul got in on the ground floor

this shit equated possibly an equation 

                                             LIVESTOCK = DEADSTOCK

he wondered if pure ignorance feels warm and fuzzy

America has a bonafide homegrown death cultKALI

609 1809,  Monday,  23  8. 21

228 1428, Day-between-Two-Ts,  25  8. 21

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wants-bring-light-inside-the-body-to-kill-coronavirus-2020-4

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/08/23/covid-warning-treatment-ivermectin-fda-mississippi/8244302002/ 

Harry Nillson  Coconut  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSuueEGQSM