he was astoundedastonished  again

                                      why would he be

but he was always surprised

he read that the Maya Angelou quarter was coming outwhere the hell was Harriet Tubman replacing Andrew Jackson on the twentydollar bill

he beat ass down to his bank to get his hand on a roll of Maya quarters

stood in line

when he was recognised he walked down to the teller  Jennifer 

                                                                    Good afternoon, how can I help you?

I understand the Maya Angelou quarter was released earlier this week

Excuse me? she leaned inforward they spoke with masks over their faces what do bank robbers do now

The Maya Angelou quarter it was released earlier this week

What?

Maya Angelou  Quarters

Jennifer looked confused  she was middleaged  I don’t know what Mayangelou is.

Who she is

Okay. Let me get a manager to see if she can help you.

Yes Jennifer  please

Midafternoon,  ReggaeFriday,  14  1. 22

1517,  Monday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,  17  1. 22

https://catalog.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/american-women-quarters-program/?cm_mmc=external+site-_-infosite-_-mayaprogrampage-_-category+name&cc=AWQ&_ga=2.232281372.287426414.1642460581-1987508919.1642460581 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/26/harriet-tubman-twenty-dollar-bill-replace-andrew-jackson/4257038001/

You ought to hit that.

   That

Yes that, you know what I’m talking about.

Unfortunately I do though I suppose I may have a little more respect for women

I respect them . .

. . You respect  that

Whatever . .

. . Not makin any headway with me boss

So . you’re not . . . pursuing . this terribly attractive woman who . . who’s . hand’s down, obviously infatuated with you?

No I know the difference between a marriage an a happy marriage

                                                                       Hows yours

Well . . we don’t have an open marriage but we’ve been infatuated time to time. But I’m not talking about me.

Nor me

        Eve asked we help with their move Its wha we do an Im the best you got  Ive met her husband had dinner with them They have a happy marriage . .

. . Until it isn’t.

                She’s dropdead gorgeous and nuts for you.

Its no matter not to say Im not attracted to her  Shes not going to jeopardise her marriage

She might if youd jeopardize yours.

Really

AwJesus.  I’m sorry.

 Sorry   Sorry doesnt cut it

                              People move on except those it happened to If you were sorry youd apologise

I apologise.  Forgive me. 

Im not a churchgoer

                      I accept your apology 

Thank you.

Moving forward

                 We landed this job an Ill work with Eve so it goes off seamlessly in the manner she wants

 

Eve was distracting

they worked closely

she smelled greatlooked great possessed all the attributes physicallyintellectually a man could want

                                                                                                          he would want

they were going to move a long tall ornate wall cupboard 

he was able to shimmy it out into the room enough to get behind it and unscrew the straps that stayed its top an bottom together

as they broke for lunch she laid some heavy drapes which hung from iron rings on the cupboards base she thought she heard a THUNK

                 Did you hear that?

Excuse me

You hear a sound . . as I laid the drapes down?

No I did not

Hmm.

returning from lunch returning to the cupboard she asked a laborer to take the drapes and pack them in the boxes labeled drapes in the livingroom

the laborer went to pick up a sectionheavier than he thought something had caught he pulled and when he pulled the top of the cupboard tilted and followed an iron ring fell between the pieces acted like a toggle it listed then toppled forward

she lunged for one sidehe the other she lost her grip the laborer ducked he couldnt hold it by himself but managed to lessen its impact as it went down pinning the two of them under it

they looked at each other through its shelves

                                               You okay

I think so.

the laborer went off for some help

Yare sure yare okay

I still think so.  You? 

   Im fine

You’re fine?

Cant complainwouldnt trade places with anyone on earth at this moment

Fine?  You hit your head?

Heads fine Youll excuse me for saying so  Im diggin the view

The view?

   You

        shifting his eyes to her breast An you  the cupboard torqued her blouse open to one side baring her breast

she glanced down Oh my God.

His wonders will never cease anthis is as close to a miracle as Ill ever get

while he spoke she was able to free her hand to pull her blouse closed 

it wasnt obliging

Its on my side

I’ll give you my sid . .

. . Yare

This isn’t funny . .

. . Its beautiful

                Yare absolutely beautiful

she blushedkept pulling

slooowly it relented

                      relenting as he chuckled softly and hummed Heaven Im in Heaven

clad blushing fiercely she laughed too her mouth open and began humming with him

 

when the laborers returned they were confused to find them humming  and laughing  they thought they were concussed

unIDd early morning,  Saturday,  15  1. 22

1123,  Monday – celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.  17  1. 22

Fred Astaire  Cheek to Cheek  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QYdcHQXwdM

lets be cleareyed about the January6 House Select Committee investigation of the Capitol insurrection/domestic terrorism

it is a biparitsan committee

  Yes

       Speaker Pelosi was provided eight selections  chose six Democrats two Republicans Wyomings Lynn Cheney and Illinois’ Adam Kinzinger she (as was her right to be consulted) refused to seat two of Minority leader McCarthys five who were Indianas Jim Banks Illinois’ Rodney Davis Ohios Jim Jordan North Dakotas Kelly Armstrong Texas’ Troy Nehls to “. . make sure (he got) the best people on the committee.”  three of the five challenged President Bidens certification

in McCarthys infinite wisdom he pulled his nominees

  McCarthy

             Freedom Caucus members Jim Banks Pennsylvanias Scott Perry in addition to many other notably Formers Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows also a former Caucus member are refusing to voluntarily testify before the Committee

shabby dishonest Republicans

American Democracy is on the line

real white meat patriots

1440,  Monday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,  17  1. 22

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/mccarthy-zeroes-in-on-five-gop-members-for-jan-6-select-committee-500201 

https://www.rollcall.com/2021/07/01/pelosis-picks-for-jan-6-select-committee-include-liz-cheney/  

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1018924596/nancy-pelosi-rejects-2-gop-picks-for-jan-6-inquiry-committee

https://www.thebulwark.com/i-spent-insurrection-week-listening-to-steve-bannon/?utm_campaign=wp_the_daily_202&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_daily202

Strike-on-the-Box matches are like yanking your dick rather than stuffing it in a cunt

If yare waiting for an apology

                                Itll be a cold day in hell or snow in Miami before youd get it from him

Diamond Strike Anywhere wood matches get minimised why

                                                                Because shipping entities say FedEx UPS got a bug up their ass suddenly  the matches were dangerous goods were hazmat  shipping prices went through the roof  Bunch of cuntish corporates dicktating terms and conditions

                                                     Theyre the type that wouldnt light cigars or barbecues with matches

they have to use sleek butane lighters  everso stylish  bluejet flame

Don care for suits          

2336,  Saturday,  15  1. 22

Never fails never fails

You’re muttering.

Give me five an Ill be hollering at ya to hear me

                                                 he glanced over Maxs shoulder

Maxs turned right following his look

                                      Awshit.

Ya said it

a city Maintenance truck had parked and an employee was strapping a leaf blower onto his back they sat across from the huge grassy mall sparkling water fountain across from City Hall

Donya think the city would get their labour get a bigger bang for their buck if this cat had a rake but before Max could answer Maintenance fired up the industrial leaf blower

                                                           Wha a fuckin howl

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

I said wha a howl

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

I SAID HOWL

OHYES, HOWL.

FUCK

YES, FUCK.

WANNA GO INSIDE

MAYBE HE’LL GO UP THE STREET.

BRILLIANT 

           he got up off his ass crossed the street approached Maintenance HEY he started turnedabruptly and retreated as he was reaching to tap him on the shoulder furthur emphasis if he hadnt heard him  Maintenance backed off on the Newtons of force quieting the machine

                                                           Thank you

slipping off his industrial headphones music leaked everywhere What?

I said thank you  Would you mind   Please

Mind?

Pretty obvious Still holding a cup of coffee from the shop across the street where I was having conversation with a friend

You have a rake in your truck

A rake? he asked facetiously

he thought about letting him stew but Norville the stitched name patch on his jacketpossibly on the shirt beneath too  in case he forgot didnt strike him as a deep puddle

                                          Yes A rake Were talking across the street and preferya can imagine not wanting to scream at each other

I have work to do.

Can ya do it on the other end of the mall where the trees and the leaves are I watched you kick up a couplethree leaves at a time here an those leaves  where might you suppose those leaves came from

                                                                                        he looked towards City Hall

Norville followed his gaze Id might imagine these leaves are from those trees at the other end of the mall

Norville looked back at him the machine still gargling

I could do that.

   Please

           I expect well be done with our coffee in a halfhourforty minutes

Half hour.

Forty minutes

Half hour?

Forty minutes

                Look for us or ifya rather I can interrupt you again

Forty minutes.

Thank you he looked at his name patch Norville  he withheld being facetious

We were saying

What did you say to him?

Asked Norville to please tend where the trees and leaves are

You’re kidding me?

                    Norville?

Had you been up-close-an-personal an seen through the googles the headphones off  you may have guessed Norville

Had I a guess before I saw his name patch I would have guessed Huey  Huey Huey Here pig pig pig

What?

Sooie

Sooie?

Pig pig pig  Youve not heard that

No.

Yare definitely from LA

I am, still don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

Anthas okay awright

Mebbe ya saw as I was walkin towards him he blew one leaf forward an it curled back around behind him  One single leaf

I missed that.

Incredible Then he hit a patch threefour leaves blew up into the air which also circled back around him I think through his gogglesdespite being walleyed  their frame obscured his vision

                                                                      He truly needs a rake Rakes don allow escapees

Escapees?

Nah don play dumb

                     When you approach a herd of leaves ya nonchalantly hide the rake behind your back then when you jump them they get confusedlook for a lead leaf to head the breakout but baffledsurprised their randomnessnot wanting to breakup the band they fall into heap inert  listless

                                                                   Before they know wha hit em youve raked them into a pile to deliver to the street gutter curbside to burn them in their stupor 

Are you high?

Hellno  Im Norvillising

                         Im making sensemade him abide me so we could talk Ya got a problem with that OR WOULD YOU RATHER SCREAM

he startled Max he went over backwards dumping his cooled coffee all over him 

Gawddamn it we still had another twelvefifteen minutes

                                                               Are you okay

You frightened me, I hadn’t expected you to scream in my face.

I wont apologising Should try to expect the unexpected

                                                           Adapt react head on a swivel both feet on the ground

Jesus, I’m having coffee.

When you least expect it yare elected yare the star to day  he didnt sing

I’m the star today?

Ya is

      Smile yare on Candid Camera

1415,  Thursday,  13  1. 22

1747,  Saturday,  15  1. 22

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“With its 79.9 cm³ engine the PB-8010 (The Beast) translates to an incredible maximum airflow of up to 1819 m³/h at a force of 44.4N, making it the most powerful blower on the market.”

BLOW ME

 

he had every intentionthe best of intentions to go to bed and masturbate

a coterie waited his conquests if he were sexist but he had been conquered too some of his funnest times  all lined up an waiting

         but as he flipped the 3Dpages of his memory like a jampacked girlie magazine he became indecisive  Ooh the choices then he got trippedup in what options appealed to him  anwhile he mused drowsiness set in  overtook him

Drowsy had a lot going for her kind of matronly but not hornrimmed glasses very naughty librarianish  Here, have you read this? It’s wonderful, phenomenal, magical realism . . come . follow me. bit like the spider said to the fly

ensnaring him she asked Perhaps you’d rather sleep? Go to sleep like a good boy? 

she embraced himswaddled him in her warm bosom an arms breathed gently in his face her breath Ah smelled hypnotic  like a chilled dirty martini     

1611,  Reggae Friday,  14  1. 22

1106,  Saturday,  15  1. 22

https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-spider-and-the-fly/

the conversation whippedlathered around him

he heardchose to listen hadnt any skin in the game hence no opinion

it became obvious to the others he wasnt participating

                                                         it usually bothered them more than him

sometimes those conversing got suspiciouslike he was a plant like he was going to run back to the people they were talking about and spill the beans

only when they pointed fingers at him were they able to elicit his standard

                                                                              Youre talk isnt that interesting

he couldnt help himselfdid the same at church

                                                if one hasnt anything to say he fervently believed in saying nothing at all somewhat in line with John Cages logic an line I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. ofcourse Cages bit was said with music lucky stiff

called out sagely hed say SE

                              was usually mistaken for Si which he knew taken as an admission if someone looked to be provoked Idiots he didnt speak Spanish  Mexican as his father said   Wha do they speak in Spain Paw   Mexican

                                                                                                                            So you are running back to tell them what we’ve said.

     NO 

         Not si  S E

Not a smart time to be cryptic, Bub.

Never did care for the moniker Bub hed steelyeye the Bubsayer  always more than happy to give someoneanyone the time of the day

They didnt know wha smart was

                                   I believe you think what yare talking about is really something NAH

I believe yare something else Ya follow See  S E    Si

                                                             Fuck  he only confused them

they sputteredsmoked like damp struck Diamond Strike-Anywhere wood matches

he ought to have learned by now

it wasnt that he was a slow study

he was overly fond of peoples asinine gossipthat they didnt know any better  marveled that they had lived this long

Thats something

      No

           Thats something else

1452,  Thursday,  13  1. 22

1150,  Saturday,  15  1. 22

he didnt care for his state of mind todayhe wasnt blue  wasnt angry    malaise  that was it

malaise colouredrouged tintedbruised   perhaps cinnabar chili red

so he wanted  to  let   go

                             just let go

grab ahold of something playful

 

something his buddy said last night

                                    after a Blue Dream ediblecoffeebeers before not creamy potato leek soup

it tickled him

maybe they were being ridiculous riffing  he was good at it

he couldnt remember the commentwhat context was that preceded it

buddy said

             Great job bro!

heard him distinctly

                    yet once it entered his earsentered his head WHOA cried his interiors  theyve tried since he was a boy to terrorise himthey were obsessed  he was tickled

                                                    inside his head they flipped the phrase he concurredloved to concur especially with them gave meaning to their lives

                                                   out loud he said NO Great bro job

buddys eyes popped You said wha?

Ya heard me

Great bro job?

Ya heard me

Great bro job.  My . . that certainly . . colors . influences . .

. . Corrupts . .

. . Possibly . . one’s imagination.

Yare welcome to it

Great bro job . . flows . it’s fluid . .

. . Cums

ridiculousness paired with sexual innuendo always made him feel better

malaise shrugged stuck its fist in its jacket pockets turned tail took a couple of steps kicked a stone

                                                                                                         wasnt a good kick

when it reached the stone going to kick it again it whiffed

                                                             it could feel his eyes on its back

                                                                                                 it quitcontinued walking on to its next gig elsewhere

1557,  Thursday,  13  1. 22

1229,  ReggaeFriday,  14  1. 22

“. . . all our close relatives eventually died out, leaving Homo sapiens as the only human species. Their extinctions add one more intriguing, perhaps unanswerable question to the story of our evolution – why are we the only humans to survive?”

it is an interesting article published on-line by the Smithsonian magazine

he found it curious why the question was asked

why five plus two? of six hominin became extinct

                                                 Homo (H.) habilis – H. erectus – H. heidelbergensis – H. neanderthalensis (commingled with Altai Denisovan (which then propagated two additional species H. floresiensis and H. luzonensis)) – H. sapiens

       given H. sapiens proclivity for violence and bloodlust

                                                                his answer wouldnt be audacious

Murdered the Other

                     anthen regarding our singular remaining genus genus  certainly not genius the extermination of Others

were good at it

were cruel

1040,  ReggaeFriday,  14  11. 22

“Neanderthals once stretched across Eurasia from Portugal and the British Isles to Siberia. As Homo sapiens became more prevalent across these areas the Neanderthals faded in their turn, being generally consigned to history by some 40,000 years ago. Some evidence suggests that a few die-hards might have held on in enclaves, like Gibraltar, until perhaps 29,000 years ago. Even today traces of them remain because modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA in their genome.

“Our more mysterious cousins, the Denisovans, left behind so few identifiable fossils that scientists aren’t exactly sure what they looked like, or if they might have been more than one species. A recent study of human genomes in Papua New Guinea suggests that humans may have lived with and interbred with Denisovans there as recently as 15,000 years ago, though the claims are controversial. Their genetic legacy is more certain. Many living Asian people inherited perhaps 3 to 5 percent of their DNA from the Denisovans.

“Despite the bits of genetic ancestry they contributed to living people, all of our close relatives eventually died out, leaving Homo sapiens as the only human species. Their extinctions add one more intriguing, perhaps unanswerable question to the story of our evolution—why were we the only humans to survive?”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/essential-timeline-understanding-evolution-homo-sapiens-180976807/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20211229-daily-responsive&spMailingID=46175692&spUserID=MTIyMTUxODU5OTExNgS2&spJobID=2143332861&spReportId=MjE0MzMzMjg2MQS2

https://www.verslo.is/home/Raungreinar/lif/Itarefni/Throun/Throunarsaga%20mannaettar(e).htm

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/overview-of-hominin-evolution-89010983/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/enigmatic-human-relative-outlived-neanderthals

Christ you couldnt tell me when ya invited me

Tell you?  What was I supposed to tell you?

Look around

I have, what are you looking at, you know everyone here.

An among them is there one person you can point to that you have seen me engagehave a cup of coffee with  Indulge

Had I knownhad you told me every social butterfly in town was going to be here I would have said NO thank you saved myself the time an water I spent showering

That’s a little strong.

Thats an evasion

                    Although  you might be blinded by the kaleidoscope   See  Im being kind  I could call them a swarm of social butterflies

Babe, you need to get out among people, you’re hunkered down, seem downright uncommunicative . . antisocial.

Still evading my question

                              One   Point out one

she only frustrated herself more by looking around the banquet hall for a person had she looked in a mirror she could have pointed to herself and say There, her right there.  that would have been a cheap escape

                                                                                                   he would have called her out on it too

These are social moths Probably why I keep mothballs around the house

defeated I thought you’d enjoy getting out.

I do  Thank you   I enjoying getting out with you

                                                     You look beautiful by the way

1333,  Sunday,  9  1. 22

1230,  Thursday,  13  1. 22