Duffy

Duffy sent me woodpecker sawdust

                                         Reminds me Tinkerbell her Pixie dust  without it shes unable to fly  I hope Duffy wasnt too generousdidnt diminish her abilities for whatever woodpecker sawdust provides

I’ve . . I’ve never heard of . that.

Me neither It came inside a coffinshaped glass jewelry box   A bit unsettling A small note inside it facing up on bonecoloured parchment said it was woodpecker sawdust

What is that?

  Logically bits an dust of wood excavated by a woodpecker either from it searching for insects or to storepack seeds or nuts in

         It seems me   You have an idea

 

No.

     What are you going to do with it?And whos Duffy?

Duffys my mother She wants to be known as Duffy from here on

he cringed  uncomfortably

                             Your mother?

Yes  Don make a face

Your mother’s dead.

  Yes

Are you okay?

Yes

       I was moved  The notes in her handwriting  I believe it was written with the fountain pen I gave her years ago  Her cursive is beautiful and the flourish of ink not ballpoint is quite exquisite  An unmistakable

he shifted his feet  Are you sure you’re okay?

I can show you the jewelry box the dust the note Yare familiar with her handwriting you can see for yourself

he slowly shook his head side to side  mulling   indecisive

                                                                    Duffy 

Yes  Thank you

No. I’d rather not.

                    I’ll take your word.

Should you change your mind Id be happy to show you

                                                              The glass coffinshaped boxI believe  acknowledges her acceptance of her death  You remember she didnt want to be buriedcoudnt breathe didnt want to be cremated itd burn 

In a coffin in a crypt was an excellent solution to her dilemma

                                                                 An maybe afterall  she gave me all her dust  She doesnt need to flymaybe  I don know  Ill have to give it more thought but off the top of my head  that’s my consideration   Ill give it more thought

You are sure you’re okay?

Yes thank you I am   Im surprised but okay an grateful  This confirmsfalls in line with my considered belief that theres an unseen veil to say biologically a lenticel aerenchyma auriferous parenchyma  stomata  that allows exchangesinteractions between  us 

                                       It separates life an death  a febrilefor lack of a better word or word I havent right now  A febrile passage

I don’t know what to say.

 Ifya don don

AMish,  Sunday,  3  7. 22

1155,  Saturday,  9  7. 22

Duffy  Don’t Forsake Me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mclC7ctlfY

Boards of Canada  Nlogax  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmZaMmGxSVo

Oops its happened again

Las Vegas Nevada  or did you forget

Buffalo New York

Awright ya have to get this down pat Summons piety sorrow really sell it   Repeat after me  humbly   I offer my most fervent and urgent prayers

I . I offer my most fervent and urgent prayers.

You got it

Yes.

Lemme hear it again

I . . I offer

No ya cant deliver it like that  not rote  Say it with feelingmake eye contact  Emote   Try again

I offer my most fervent and urgent prayers.

Yes  Eyes

           Once again

deeply warmly solicitously  unblinking   I offer my most fervent and urgent prayers.

  Yes 

       At night when you kneel down beside your bed ifya kneel to say your prayers   pause a moment say it first  It cant be reflexive but from the heartthe depths of your soul   Got it

Yes.

Yes Good  Your political career your standing depends on it

Uvalde Texas

A word, senator? 

  head bowed griefstricken  Yes. A moment please  clears his throat  its husky with grief   I offer my most fervent and urgent prayers.

Tulsa Oklahoma

Five people are dead, congressman.

I'm terribly shaken.  I offer my most fervent and urgent prayers.

Highland Park Illinois

Senator, someone from atop a building opened fire on a Fourth of July parade, six people are believed dead, a seventh in critical condition . . what are you going to do about this horrific shooting?

cow eyes sniffsniff   I offer my most fervent and urgent prayers.

1739,  Twosday,  5  7. 22

224preferred,  Saturday,  9  7. 22

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-las-vegas-massacre-report-and-the-rise-of-second-amendment-nihilism

https://www.nytimes.com/article/mass-shootings-2022.html   https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/27/uvalde_texas_shooting_trigger_points_prevention?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=c3ad69abfa-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-c3ad69abfa-192501705                                                                       

Sound scripted

if we hardened our democracy

                                 other things can follow   like boiling an egg

the biggest problem firming things up is the Republican party

                                                                 it stands for nada      

Hemingway  A Clean, Well-lighted Place

                                           “ . . . he knew it was all nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver usfrom nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”

                                                it killed him to share a muscular Hemingway with them they arent muscular Hemingway parses them  gutted flensed pared fileted offal tossed off to a side he furrows trying to find if they haveat least a pearl inside them he attempts to find something redeeming about them

but they believe their job is to be obstructionists   cockblockers

  hardening democracy

                            to have Republicans help would require them to ingest handfuls of phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitor pills Viagra and such and submit to plastic surgery  testicular prosthesesLADIES hard to believe that women would side with them  a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) mighty close to sperm  Ospemifene (Osphena) for vaginal atrophy

a subliminal Mariachi band member whispered  Yare being ridiculous

I am 

Yare trying to be offensive

I am they offend me Shit or get off the pot They exhibit no leadership offer no solutions enable a criminal Their justice their Themis peeks out from under her blindfold 

                                                   Theyre an egregious pedigree an my hope overly manipulated  like German Shepherd hip dysplasia it cuts short their political lives

That was a mouthful

A mournful mouthful Theyre trying to eradicate the Twentieth Century

Retro Republicans

   Yes

409preferred,  Thursday,  7  7. 22

1021,  Saturday,  9  7. 22

Doors  Changeling  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPQn5XwW8aY 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/15993-testicular-prosthesis

the Republican Party stands for forcing children to bear children for weapons of war  mass murder  

theyre enraged pobabies

 they think  theythink theyre being ostracisedbut theyve done it to themselves

incels

hed only heard themwha  six  six months ago   his brother-in-law filled him in

Incels  Whadahells an incel   Am I saying it right

Yeah you got it, incel . . it means involuntarily celibate, I know you dislike acronymsanything approaching it.

Online creatures.

Kind of like a simp

Simp? he blinkedlike bright sunlight struck him in the eyes What’s a simp?

Seems to me a synonym of incel a guy whos desperate for the attention affection of a woman although its my understanding a simp can also be a woman

I didn’t know that.

Nutshuh tit for tat   Hope Im not being cold to incels talkinbout tits

he chuckled

             I think not, you didn’t post to social media.

No I did not 

             he chuckled  like cancer hed have nothing to do social media

so these childrenthese manboys who should know better should have grown up who played soldier as kids who likely played violentmurderous point-of-view computer games theyre fixated on their disappointments their disappointments  their failures  theyre fingeringblaming others that they are misfits they bear no responsibility they soothe their anger buy a AK-47 become a murderer  cry because they didnt do everyone a favorblow their brains out before attacking innocent people cry pobabies they were provoked

1844,  Thursday,  7  7. 22

1510,  Reggaefriday,  8  7. 22

res publica 

            loosely translated public issue public matter  commonwealth  the term is thought to be the origin of the word republic which refers to a state where supreme power lies in the people via elected representatives as opposed to a monarchy or an autocracy

 republic

           Republicans insurrectionists white supremacists make a point of calling the United States of America a republic

he called it a democracy he understood they were blended democracys political powers of the majority tempered by a republics system of checks and balances enforced by the Constitution which protects the minority from the majority

currently a corrupt minority is crucifying the majority

when he thinks aboutoften the only time hes considered America a republic was when he said the pledge of allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 

lotsa of rightswinging Republicans defy the pledge exactly as they defy their oath to office

he preferred the original

                          I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for whichit stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

it was written by Francis Bellamy  a socialist minister 

in 1923 Congress fucked with it added the Flag of the United States of America they didnt know wha country they lived in

then really screwed the pooch coudntve played Fetch during the Eisenhower Administration  the president fearful of Communism  he encouraged Congress  1954  “under God”

                                                                theres a precedent that can go

hold hands with Roe

1325,  Thursday,  7  7. 22

1142,  Reggaefriday,  8  7. 22

https://www.thoughtco.com/republic-vs-democracy-4169936 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-man-who-wrote-the-pledge-of-allegiance-93907224/  

Its math stupid

Census as of 1 January 2022 there were approximately 332.4M Americans  

32% say they own a weapon 44% say they live in a household where weapons are owned or are on the premises  property   

there are approximately 400M weapons

Do the math those weapons are owned by 106.4M Americans 

5% of the 400M weapons 20M are assault weapons  weapons designed to destroy human beings quickly 

an existential threat to innocent lives they ought to be banned

1643, Thursday,  7  7. 22

https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own-guns.aspx 

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-20-million-ar-15-style-rifles-in-circulation-2022-5 

https://www.williamsonherald.com/opinion/columns/commentary-just-do-the-math-stupid/article_e3d457ea-e76b-11ec-be25-1fa7e8a24e22.html

When in Rome . . .

Why does it have to be Rome

                                 Poughkeepsie  word from the Wappinger tribe “reed-covered lodge by the little water place”  originally U-puku-ipi-sing  A Poughkeepsieian

When in Poughkeepsie do as the Poughkeepsieians do

You’re definitely high.

Were high our neat little trio is high  Got an idea

Does it have to do with . . Poughkeepsieians? Babette asked It's kind of a fun to say.  Poughkeepsieians.

Don’t encourage him . .

. . I need little or no encouragement

                                     Yawanna play a game

What’s your idea of a game?

Moby Babette  You swap sexes an list sevenin no particular order seven attributes which the opposite sex woud find attractive whas good lickingHA Freudian slip which I think actually means that Freuddefinitely had sexual hangups he also wore a slip under his worsted wool suit Tha said thas me 

                                                                        Sosay whaya think is goodlooking Ill write it down 

So, I list what a woman . .

. . You  Yare a woman now

I’m a woman now.

You might note Moby that Babette followedunderstood without question grasped it immediately Thanks Babette

You’re welcome.

Ah, you two are thick as thieves.

S’entendre comme larron en foire French idiom thick as thieves is from Useless information that roilsround inside my head I keep it stirred so nothing settles an gets scorched or burned

Moby and Babette looked back and forth between themselves

Ladies first in no particular order we can prioritise later if you like  Moby ladies first 

Moby had leaned back in his chaise lounge with his vodka tonic forgot he was a lady Ohshit that’s right, I’m first.

A, uh . . a man’s smile would attract me.

Babette didnt wait to be acknowledged BOOBS!

Theres them Thats one

                           Two

Hair.

Ass.

His height.

Also hair.

Big broad shoulders.

Long legged, got some stems on her.

His eyes.

Her eyes.

His voice.

Her voice, though more so in regards to her laughter, no cackling.

Jesus those six rolled off your tongues with little to no thought which makes me believeconfirms that there is little to no difference between men an women women an men in regards to wha the sexes find appealing Though I had thoughthoped wed delve deeper than mere physicality

You said attracted.

Babette nodded

Sense of humour Intellect

You said attracted.

Babette nodded

I supposed otherwise

                        Thasaid Number seven

And finally and foremost . . his package.

Her scent.

 

he then had them revert to their own skin 

                                             Again in no particular order Babette

Definitely his ass in jeans, work boots, maybe carpenter’s belt.

Her face, a really goodlooking woman.

His arms, biceps.

There, she’s proving my theory . .

. . Tha fuckin economic bullshit exchanges . .

. . His strength, his ability to protect her, provide shelter, security, what women really want.

Because she cant provide for herself caveman

                                                   Babette

His scent, smells fresh and clean, not a cologne.

Definitely boobs.

Christ Moby Babette showed more enthusiasm

Of course his package.

Her height.

Her height

She has to be tall.

Whas tall

At least fiveseven.

Average height in America is fivefour

His hair.

Her legs, cankles need not apply.

Big shoulders, his body ought to form a V.

Her smile.

Number seven, not pretty boy hands . . not manicured, I’d shit, no lacquered nails.

We’re at seven already . .

. . Ya didnt dive deep

Seven. Her lips.

Tha went quicker than I thought ya machinegunned it  Awwell thank you for playing participating  vetting

From a distance a Monet is beautiful Upclose not so much

                                                                 Whod like another drink

Are we going to prioritise? 

I coudnt take it

                 Lists are right here knock yourselves out I don wanna know  A fresh drink anyone

suntime,  Thursday,  9  6. 22

1134,  Thursday,  7  7. 22

he liked confidencehadnt lacked it since he quit stuttering as a youngster since they havent been able to shut him up 

confidence is revealed without a word it has a physicality in mannerisms how one carries themselves how they talk directly do not avert their eyes it is revealed in their walk

I saw you earlier this afternoon.

I missed you why didnt you stop me say hello

Couldn’t, I was a block and a half behind you.

They may not have been me

It was you, no mistaking you, it’s how you walk, the way you carry yourself . . unmistakable.

two other women who walked up on the water cooler overhearing their conversation nodded  We’d recognise you at a block and a half too, coming or going.

I did not know that

confident

competent

a competitor

              a quiet elaboration how one comports themselves

Whas not to like

Really. I think confident people are stuck up, full of themselves.

If they can carry water then whas your take

I’m uncomfortable around them.

  Why  Whas your consideration   Ive an idea

Nothing more than they make me uncomfortable.

Youll not put a finger on anything

No.  Being uncomfortable is plenty for me . .

. . Because you lack confidence

                                   they werent fighting words but they werent kind either he believed if his words were honest one shouldnt be upset by them any more than when someone is wrong shown they were wrong called out if necessary which usually has become the case now  people prefer to be right even when theyre wrong  he felt that they ought to be able to admit it when he was wrong he was untroubled admitting his mistake

I have confidence.

                    he wasnt convincing

Im not saying so to knock you Yare not confrontational its not in your makeup You prefer to get along Youll be agreeable just to get past the moment 

                                        However those are the moments when to stand correct the err before it can metastasise  poison others

Poison?  he asked harshly

Poison 

        Gangrene can cause the loss of a limb or kill the sufferer Why not try to help the sufferer before things go long If for nothing more  unable to dissuade them  that the next time they go to open their mouth theyre aware someone else might take up against them throw shade on them 

                                                     Theyre performers they want the bright spotlight they don wanna share a soapbox

So you want to help?

Aint grandstanding

                     We were corrected as children when we were wrong That shouldnt change because were older  Because were older we should have the grace to admit were wrong when we are wrong There is no shame Aint nobody perfect however we ought to strive for perfection Correcting one error at a time we grow closer

he almost mumbled  Then you do it.

I intend to  I will

1657,  Thursday,  16  6. 22

0948,  Thursday,  7  7. 22

Blood, Sweat & Tears  Spinning Wheel  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFEewD4EVwU

Oh . . you’re going to go to hell.

Lemme cite Lennon No hell below us above us only sky

No. You deserve to go to hell for that.

Really WhyId love to hear why

                                 Yare no fan of religion Id also imagine not its hierarchy either You started this with your bombastic broadside women are somehow superficial because theyre attracted to men in uniform military firefighters cops men in business suits a sort of uniform that invokes money power prestige

They are.

Ill concede the attraction although Im unwilling to concede they are superficial for it Men are no better not up a rung on that ladder ya kiddin me  theyre no better 

                                              Men dig women in uniform  naughty librarians Catholic schoolgirls nurses Japanese school uniforms stewardesses cheerleaders  Dominatrixes   Give me a freakin break 

                                                                                                      Therefore Im not off base  A gaggle of young healthy nuns flitting here an there barefoot on sandy adobe pavers running on green courtyard grass under old gnarly trees

But you said  Gag one of the gaggle.

I did

       Sister Beneficence  Had she not been hot when I was a boy I woudnt have taken my punishmentknelt on broomhandles for cracking up at Biblical stories she recited to us She stuck in my head for years

                                                                                                       Shed kneel on the wood floor across from me the epitome of her name Widespaced hazelgreen eyes wide nose high cheekbone lush mouth

Don't tell me you thought of gagging her then.

No not as a boy

                 Not till I was eleven after an older neighbourhood girl got her hands on me  Then I thought of Sister Beneficence   frequently

 

1657,  Thursday,  16  6. 22

1243,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  6  7. 22

Oh Tucker Tucker  Tucker . .

                                Yare such a tuckersuch a piece of shit

Tucker took a deep breath and began his disinformation “. . . their lives will not be better than their parents, it’ll be worse, that’s all but guaranteed, they’re not that stupid. And yet the authorities in their lives, mostly women, never stop lecturing them of their so-called (white) privilege, you’re male, you’re privileged, imagine that, try to imagine an unhealthier, unhappier life than that. So a lot of young (white) men in America are going nuts, are you surprised?”

FOXs defence of mass murder shooters & weapons of war 

televised Twosday,  5  7. 22

1555,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  6  7. 22

https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-points-finger-women-045131296.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADTUCR6o_JhW5ruYPLqZSMDg07RhOQUrxwDNgbnoxqCuYxu070A_VxveCmXE3G2v1UdezkAS-PyYIlPjVFortH9Mr8ksLdOGhGm2hXFp0MuRIFL8cHFKYE5_tjhZAInYkz2AelrBlm6X_DK43hTYyPsoJMI_3cYrqNqoKeiaDgm-

“If it bleeds, it leads.” FOX doesnt want its revenue stream affected       http://pepperdine-graphic.com/opinion-if-it-bleeds-it-leads-the-modern-implications-of-an-outdated-phrase/

Tom Nichols  https://thefederalist.com/2015/07/09/the-revenge-of-the-lost-boys/

Funny word. he said absently to himnot looking up after seeing his approach he was reading his smartphone as he returned to the table

A funny word

Yes. Flageolet. You know it?

since he was still looking down into his phone he wasnt going to vie with it for his attention he opted to fight absence with absence

I said it’s a funny word . . isn’t it?

Excuse me Wha

he looked up

              Flageolet.

Wha of it

You know what it is, the word means?

Yes Member of the fipple flute family sweet alliterationhuh  The flageolet ocarina recorder slide whistle tin whistle willow flute skin flute

                         Albeit that woudbe a fageolet  No disrespect intended

when he blitzed him like that Smartphone still preoccupied with the lightedscreen in his eyes couldnt hear well he couldnt do two things at once 

                                his face blanched as he finally looked up at himlooked him in the face  What are you talking about?

Whayawere talkinbout

I . . I wasn’t talking, I asked a quest . .

. . I answered ya

                   Frankly I answered ad nauseam  went seamy

he shook his head I’m not following.

Not on pointhuh 

miffed I asked you a simple question.

Which I answered

                    I don believe Im required to be simple in response  I  simply  said wha I knowwha I understand  Why I know it I have no idea although Ive been known to hoard useless information  trivial trivia

                                                                                                       You asked

It is a funny word

suntime,  ReggaeFriday,  10  6. 22

1140,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  6  7. 22

Eric Clapton  Driftin’ Blues/Rambling on My Mind  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLOn-CBICCo

contemporaneous notes

something many highprofile Republican leaders choose not to write its a Republican hallmark 

                                                                                                    if they did plausible deniability would go out the window which they thrive off 

they would unable to say No. I have no recollection of that.

                                                                No no, I do not remember.

Bush the Youngers bright boy AG Alberto Gonzales didnt remember anythingnothing  when he sought the resignation of eight US attorneys who were considered to lack loyalty to the president

                                                                           its kind of like a Fifth Amendment plea

a liars crutch

at the time he wanted to ask Gonzales if he remembered to sign his checks before mailing them wiped his ass

1729,  Saturday,  2  7. 22

1619,  Twosday,  5  7. 22

AG Comey was an exception