his eyes hiseyes hazeleyes shitbrowneyes  realeyes  wrong   NO couldntve been born with babyblues cleareyed honesteyed

            not lyineyes YOU WON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES! CoverGirl Zendaya 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDs1OZQAJ0o NO I don believe my eyes they lie strains of Eagles Lyin Eyes dappledtickled his eardrums Liars to be sure not always but if he didnt pay attention theyd mess with him

  take for instance

                     this afternoon outside a used bookstore

                                                               Awreally

his eyes YESreally!

                    he was thrilledcouldnt believe someone nuttedup had the audacious to write it  Bouttime he thought

he snapped the book up out of the steelwheeled Sales cart opened it randomly dropped a giddyeye in it rolled on the printed page SURPRISE! passage on the formation of the Grand Canyon NAWgimme a fuckin break wanna readbout ifanythin a slick blubberinwet Grand Chasm 

he closed the bookdidnt bookmark it with a fingerthe while imagining his happy finger tucked up in a pie  pussypie fingerlickin good   TITle wasnt a TITle title  his eyeballs were freakin gleeful GOTCHA!  Muthafuckers  Title was Dream West

               not Wet Dream 

 muttered Wha a lousy cumdown

1330,  Saturday,  23  4. 22

1447,  Saturday

Lyin' Eyes  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQPnTOAKVc

this cat was something else

                           Yare something else man

Excuse me?

Ya heard me he disliked it when he played stupid or deaf  May work with chicks but not with me

Why am I something else?

  Lets see

             When your sisters bring Satan up in conversation you abide itrefuse to shut them down or call them out anthen in a next breath ya cite eminence grise  you and your French describing it because I had not heard it before I lean Latin wonder if there is a Latin equivalent ya describe it as the hidden hand wire-puller power broker behind the scenes actor maybe akin to that damn devise Dammitwha is it used to pluck ancient actors out of scenesGOTIT deus ex machina god from the machine like me like right now providing an artificial contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty

                     Deus ex machina  as close to Latin as Ill get in accordance eminence grise a device used behind the scene set pieces  Im prattling 

                                    Something else 

                                                      Not necessarily a good moniker

I’ll take . . somewhat mysterious. 

                                    I am a man of mystery.

Don let it go to your head

So, anyways, what’s this about?

Pretext

Pretext?

Yes

Why pretext?

Or a diversion

  Diversion?

              Which? Pretext or diversion?

Or ploy pretense ruse Similar in context text  texttext    textualisation

                                   

You having fun?

I am

I asked what’s this . .

. . Yes you did Man of Mystery 

                                  Maybe Im tryin to be as mysterious            Its foreplay

I recalled our Monday suntime conversation Youll recall the monkey helping trim the tree next door

Awyeah! the monkey, no shit? . . you remembered?

I did

What was it?Tell me.

he laughed in spite of himself 

                                Yare gonna shit 

I will!  he began laughing

Monkey chewing   lettuce BLAH HAHAH

Ohshit!  he howled

                     they thought pretty funny shit

4  4. 22

1156,  Saturday,  23  4. 22

https://wordhistories.net/2019/07/24/eminence-grise/

The Kinks  Apeman  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRHqs8SffDo

I remember she said they went to grade school together got split up went to different junior highshigh schools he ran into her at a restaurantSURPRISE both returned to the city to visit family  I remember you were always good in math, sorry, arithmetic, as kids we studied arithmetic.

Yes You remember correctly

I also remember why you said you were good at it.

You do

she smiled brightly sheepishly Yees. Always made me think of you during the years of school we didn’t see each other, we were quite the tandem in fifth and sixth grade.

Seats rather desks side by side

                                   We were good friends 

We were incorrigible.

Ohmy we were werent we

We were, we had each other’s back, and I’m grateful our teachers recognised we were good together, we compelled each other, they were probably the best two years I had at school academically, and too, at such a perfect time, bolstering, establishing ourselves, who we were . . I dare say who we are.

We were in synch

                   It was wonderful  if one of us didnt knowwhatever  the other did and taught them

I think we learned more from each other than the teachers taught us, though they encouraged us; did you understand we had more homework than the other kids and it was different than theirs?

I think I did though I didnt pay it much mind.

Yes. They challenged us, very much like we challenged each other.  It was fun . .

. . Ohmy it was fun 

                     I was bummed out in junior high when I learned your parents sent you to a different school  That first week I was constantly late to class  during passing times I stopped in classrooms I had no business being in looking for you

I missed you too.

I missed you

 

So why were you good at arithmetic?

I liked how the words looked.

Words?

Algebra  Integer   They were mysterious looking they attracted me

That’s not what I remember.

No What do you remember

I remember you going on about figures.

Figures

Really?

I think I know wha yare referring to  he smiled

she smiled bigger

                   You’re going to make me say? in that precise moment her face changed from the woman before him into that happy cherubic redcheeked ten eleven year old he was in school with

his smile matched hers 

                          Yees

You said once you learned what thirtysix twentyfour thirtysix meant . . you were crazy about figures.

                                                                                                          she blushed there were those girlish redapplecheeks 

                           

  You havent changed a bit

                              Anthen yave changed a lot              Its wonderful running into you 

Youtoo.

343preferred to 1543,  Thursday,  21  4. 22

1023,  Saturday,  23  4. 22

Jackson Five  ABC  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7796-au8U 

he didnt know when the day began but after leaving the house the cats  walking reading meeting an old friend for coffee  they had edibles not an hour an a half later hed be three deep in It goes without saying3 deep

                                                                                                             he couldnt remember any other day where it occurred to him more than once now3deep he was up to his ass in it

his friend began a story he recognised

he found it curious that with every telling of itsince the first time how his friend didnt recognise or realise they were walking a wellworn path

as it happened he looked up at the round market neonlit clockface it had hands  probably why he liked having coffee in this small mart 

                it was 3:38 

Its threethiryeight 

                   he took a paper napkin from an mattblack metal dispenser and wrote 3:38 

                                                                                                  Thats a beautiful roundlooking number time isnt it

It is. Do you remember why I might like it?

he knew now4deep  he wasnt going to say he tried to muster a longdead fish vacancy in his eyes No Rooms Available

You remember why?

                      he wasnt having it the blank stare didnt discourage him Hell  he had just remarkedlaboured not ten minutes earlier about 3

                              You remember?

he nodded

Why?

he still didnt say anything he extended his armhis hand towards him gesturing Take it away.

Why?

they were both old enough to remember vinylremember what a broken record sounded like

he offered his other hand palm up

Why?

Christ  The number eight 

What about it?

Ya like it knocked off it pins lying on its side Lemniscate Infinite Over the Magicians head Strengths head fashionedjuggled between the Perpetual Pilgrims hands

In the tarot deck

No, not this time.

Bullshit 

          Every time

No. I was thinking two cubed.

You werent

             Ya bought enough time between your whys to catch yourself repeating your story

You don’t know that.

I do I absolutely know that You don swap horsesparticularly you  midstream

No.

    It’s what I was thinking.

Suit yourself

              For me Id love to see 338 emblazoned on a tight tshirt across a chicks chest Anif she was a 38doubledDduhduhduh excuse my stutter an spittle doubleD cup all the better

Sexist.

No Imaginative Appreciative   Freaking grateful

                                                     So save me the two times two times two Ya like 8 tipped on its side

turns out before they went their separate ways It goes without saying revealed itself twice more 6 times in a day Thursday April 21  a truly a memorable day 

                                                     or mebbe the edibles they ate uptitrated his languishinghigh from 4/20

what did he know

                    whad he know aside from the recurring ad nauseamy lemniscate story and an attempted coverup

 finis Latin  not French fin  334preferred,  ReggaeFriday,  22  4. 22

   it was exhausting

                       but terribly unlikely he was going to give in  submit 

they were talking politics over beers

he sighed loudly

That was quite a sigh.

Its getting old

Certainly is, but that’s what their hanging their hats on.

An understandable Its existential to them

                                             Were watching the death throes of certain white people men in particular  Theyve had their way longer than they should have so by hook or crook defamation lies they hobble  Its tiresome

It is.

Yes Unfortunatelyfortunately Ive expected as much I am imbued with the lowest common denominator

L C D.

LCD  Ya didnt hear me sighya really wanna exacerbate my condition with an acronym which ya know I despise On par with your ridiculous shorthand for couplesmerging their names antha among your other shorthands 

                                                                                                             Spell it out man

Please

LCD.  Lowest common denominator.

he emitted a thin sigh Thank you

You’re welcome.

                 he was polite  had to hand it to him

 

suddenly slapped him on the back a raw cackle breaking out of his throat

                                                                              Whowhowho har har

You're laughing?

I am Your LCDs tickling the hell out of me

                                           Listen up howbout this I take your LCD form an equationya like equations

toss in an equal sign anlet LCD equal MTG

 

  MTG? 

          Swing and a miss, I’m not following you . .

. . Yare gonna kick yourself master of shorthand

Let’s see.

           he tilted his head like a bird listening for a worm crawling under the soil

Hint

No thank you. Say.

Marjorie Taylor Greene

                         he took an index card a pen from his shirt pocket and wrote LCD = MTG  showed him 

they laughed

No no, how about this?

                         he took the index card and pen from him Excuse me if I correct you.

All eyes

with two quick strokes he augmented the equation it was better  LCD <=> MTG

Awman great glyph

Glyph? That’s not likely to play well with those who make up lowest common denominators.

Too fuckin bad  They can suck my lemon

333preferred to 1533,  Thursday,  21  4. 22

1143,  ReggaeFriday,  22  4. 22

MTG  https://www.npr.org/2022/04/22/1094273441/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-in-court-as-part-of-a-legal-challenge-to-her-candidacy

Led Zeppelin  The Lemon Song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvCQ6ntgteQ

Do as I say not as I do  Dig  

a timehonoured aggregation handed down generation to generation a deviant demand

parents own it and the brightred cherry atop that sundae one magic word 

                                                                                 BECAUSE

his face flattened was confused then puckered asif he sucked a lemon

                                                                           Because?

BECAUSE Shorthand  For Because I said 

                                             Youll recallmaybe you wont as a kid when asking why  something  when I asked a perfectly reasonable question I was often told  BECAUSE

Then parents could legitimised Because because they had fourfive six children no way in hell could they possibly entertain or know all the answers to every question their kids asked  It was a perfect short cut 

I thought it was flimsy but it was certainly worked a real game changer   

Anfor that terse abrupt reply I made damn sureas did my wife when we had children as I expected we would I expected so because I was eldest of eight taking care of children was my lot in life our children would neverEVER hear Because come out of our mouths

Not ever?

It did not

          An that was despite my parents later badgering me when kids interrupted our conversation I had them pull up hold their tongues They could be patient I found it ludicrous to have to explain to them that the kids questions outweighed our conversation

Put a pin in it Back in five

                             Anif they couldnt remember what we were discussingI remembered then it wasnt terribly important  If they couldntdidnt fuck if I was going to say

Quite a speech.

It was quite an irritation For all intents and purposes I was middle management The least they could do was throw me a bone

So you hurt yourselfyour shoulder working out?

I did

And this was shortly after your girlfriend hurt her back on a rowing machine?

Yes shes been rehabbing her back but lately shed been really pouring it on

When she was younger she was an athlete?

Yes I like to think once an athlete always an athlete

Which is nice of you to think so, though I’d suggest you know many who had been but looking at them now one wouldn’t guess they were.

Unfortunately Yes

So you frame athletics athletes subjectively.

now he had that lemony taste in his mouth

                                              Yes Id admit yare correct

Okay. We agree.

                     And you told your girlfriend she should have backed off?

I did I offered it sympathetically

Then afterwards you injured yourself . . because you didn’t back offdidn’t take your own advice?

Yes Hence do as a I say not as I do

Eating some humble pie?

I am

Why didn’t you heed your advice?

Im a sceptic  Anbeing so Im a sceptical athlete

                                                  Why wouldnt I push myself

So you didn’t injury yourself.

Not in the cards but there is that Youll get no argument from me

                                                                    Ill heal then get back up on the pony again Been doing it all my life

You and your girl sound like quite the pair. 

 

edging near 4PM or call it Suntime,  Thursday,  21  4. 22

1029,  ReggaeFriday,  22  4. 22

 

   Im sorry  I know I heard you right but woudya mind sayin that again please

I said, sometimes Satan comes up in conversation.

Satan

Yes. Satan comes up in conversation . .

. . Excuse me for interrupting

                                Save for now I cant remember a conversation I was in where Satan Lucifer  came up

I didn’t say Lucifer.

Same entity angel Lucifer cast out of Heaven became Satan

                                                               That said Cant remember a single conversation Ill remember this one when Satan came up

You’re not religious.

Neither are you

My, my family is.

They are

          Yacant excuse yourself

They’re my family.

Lemme say this when I visited family we my family had to drive eight hours to visit an my father an brother began taking about money the stock market I excused myself An one might think finances are worthwhile listening in on

That’s you, I’m not you.

No yare always try to please others

                                        Hows that workin out for ya

Doesn’t work out all the tim . .

. . Rarely

he glared him 

             he was happy he did because he was likely the only person he felt comfortable enough with to glare at and not offend him his thinskinned family members wouldnt tolerate it

                                                                       As I was saying . . . It doesn’t work out all the time.

Yes

What?

Thas all ya meant to say doesnt work out all the time

                                                         Fuck  No foreplay sweet talk cumango  Whambam thankie maam

What?

I thought you were going to gimme a line of a defense

                                                          Really got zip

   I got zip. It’s how my family is.

An at this late date who the hell are you not to excuse yourself when Satan becomes a subject of conversation I get it

Try not to take this the wrong way Recognise I rarely offer pretext

                                                                        Eunuch

Really? he really looked disturbed

Eunuchyes

             Could also mean an ineffectual person

How did you mean it?

How did I mean it

he looked reallyreally disturbed

Ya realise this is where you could also excuse yourself

                                                           Yadon have to please me

suntime,  Monday,  4  4. 22

1304,  Thursday,  21  4. 22

https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/bible-study/why-was-satan-banished-in-the-bible.html

You really rocked it

Did I

Five posts on 4/20

Yahwell  5 4/20s   I was high

                                  When Im loaded I tend to react in the sperm of the moment  fluidly

Sperm

Stop  Yave heard me use it before far better choice than spur 

                                                                Salacious I prefer salaciousif salacious salad was offered on a diners lunch menu Id order it without reading what was in it

  Youd eat lunch

I would

For you thats quite a statement

It is

So where didya head last night

Took a bath ya know that

I meantrather where in your head

                                     We rapped several times at your cellar door but you didnt answer

Cellar door

Yes they grinned lewdly he couldnt assess their sex she they he they he she he she they  hesheit the now non-binary world kept him on his toes kept him limber agile adaptable   guessing

Thought itd pique ya

Piqued Peeked Pokemon Pikachu  more vivacious

                                                    Ya think I didnt know you were going to attribute my skull a cellar door another reason why I kept to myself I like keeping to me sometimes no interlopers antelopes gazelles gazers lightningquick accessoriesrather accomplicies to the crime an facts of my being Katy bar the door   Rousingeh  An aroused stoned aware I wanted to keep strictly to myself

Ya packed the keyhole

I did

Ya packed the gloryhole

I did

     High I wanted time to me  Probably for the save reasons why God for people who believe in Him doesnt answer trillions an trillions of prayers

                                 It gets old 

Gotcha  Ya shut us out

I did Plenty of you to play amongst  No pityplay please 

                                                           Im back ya made it to this morning each an every one  Somebody gonna shower me with an AHmen

they wasnt amused

fuckem if they cant take a joke

0003,  Thursday,  21  4. 22

1158,  Thursday

The Dreadnoughts  Katie Bar the Door  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqkOR4EHqfk

Rob Reiner Carls son tweeted A vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy democracy.

hard to argue

 he wouldnt

 

  he agreed

       bluntly hed say  6 January

2121,  Day-between-Two-Ts & 4/20,  2022

Rob Reiner  https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1516749404434092041

Lawrence O’Donnell  https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-asks-is-a-vote-for-republicans-a-vote-to-destroy-democracy-138191429920

hell of a 4/20  fucked with his qi 

Russian command and ignorant young soldiers

     in a word 

                 Chornobyl

troops were ordered to dig trenches in soil that hasnt been disturbed since the horrific nuclear event 26  4. 1986

they dug

          maybe that excuses raping Ukrainian women murdering civilians clocks sticking down  maybe vomiting blood or freebleeding from orifices

                                they cant sleep at night a queer light emanates from them keeping them awake

  

2020,  Day-between-Two-Ts & 4/20, 2022

Rachel Maddow 9:11 minute-mark  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHJOMzfbrw4

cats dont bark they mew

they purr they do that thing that sounds like a car with an irregular idle a patient with heart arrhythmia Jackson Pollack throwing paint

dogs do

there were two things he imagined he could do to make them stop

1  cut their throats  he was an old farmhand and used to slaughter

2  he could drink whisky

    Guess flip a coin

1550,  Day-between-Two-Ts & 4/20, 2022

Aw comonman mustered one of his internal denizens of the deeep  Its fourtwenty man Peace Love  Be groovy   Cantcha be nice

You sound like a dog