Here! he held his hands palmup
elbows bent ninetydegrees wagged his fingers
towards him asif he was a chemistry student wafting sulfuric acids scent NEVERever put your nose directly over a
container and inhale HERE! Give it to me.
You coud have brought your own
clipboard
I don’t often have ideas worth
noting.
No ya don gave him a cold fish look
Give it to me. fingers twitching Likely your reading has informed you but given
your typical venues I’d say you haven’t drawn a bubble diagram beforenot a tool
you’ve handled at all ever.
I have heard an seen them I have not constructed one
he surmised this was his punishment
for offending his sensibilities with his earlier cumbubble elaboration
Fine, then give me the clipboard pen,
watch and learn.
in the center of the page he drew
a large squat oval inside it printed
Sunshine he added abbreviated lines radiating
from it if the sun were a jellybean and stepped
on itd look his childish drawing he
keep ovaling with the pen oblong oblong fortifing its cellular wall
eventually he was pleased There.
There
If you had to, what bubble would
you draw next?
Im tryin to catchup with wha inspired
this playin your cards mighty close to your vest friend You havent said Ill
assume you intend to surprise me
You’ll see.
at eight oclock he drew a hard line
terminated it with a circle and inside printed fusion(s) another short line
stemmed off it a smaller oval inside Energy
he sat backseemed
pleased with himself
he shook his head If yare expectin accolades don hold your
breath This afternoon we didnt discuss fusion physics
Though you can agree it's an offshoot of
Sunshine.
I coud if you can tie it into our conversation
he was looking superiorCheshire
Catish
Too soon friend to smile
Oh, you’ll see. baa . .
sounded
like he said brilliant under his breathhed be the last to
confer tha
Show me
four oclock he lanced another
line a broad arrowhead another squat
chubby oval though smaller than Sunshine
he printed nothing inside it
An thas
That’s to be determined. he didnt seem sure of
himself
its cell
wall was a hasty singular linenot round and round
an ephemeral ellipse
ten oclock short line small hasty ellipse inside Star
eleven line equal ellipse inside Yellow
one oclock line smaller oblong labeled
Happiness
midnight longer line even smaller oblong urine? off it three oclock even smaller oblong tinge of urine to the right a short umbilical uterus asparagus inside it
back to the squashed jellybean
sun
six oclock a line shorter than either the fusion(s) or larger
empty ova at four a dollop inside printed CUM in smaller script beneath
it his name Joe
which was accurate
bright
boy laughed itd be the last time he let him use
his Bear-of-a-Clip
while laughing his hahas shook his handmessed with his letters at the top of
the page he printed Richard Pryor
he shook his head I think you think this is clever
It’s brilliant! I tied all the aspects
we talked about into a bubble diagram . . which is its purpose.
Pryor “They say civilian people, we can save
people, you know. Give them mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. I don’t know. You
know what I mean, cause if I’m walking down the street and I see some mother
fucker laid all out and slobber and shit hanging out of his mouth, he ain’t
gonna make it. You know what I mean? I’m gonna say, say bro, I don’t think
you’re gonna make it, unless you can get somebody to wipe that shit off your
mouth. Right, cause you could be giving somebody mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
and they die, and death ease down your lungs. Death don’t give a fuck where it
goes. And if they can get two for one, that’s a good day for Death. And if you
ever have to go to the hospital, which I hope you never do, carry your own piss
with you, cause that’s what they want. Soon as you get in the hospital they
want some blood, and some piss. You always have the blood, but you never have
the piss. And they get mad at you. You’re not gonna leave here till you piss in
that bottle. And you never can piss. You ever tried it? Can you turn on some
water, please. And if you do start, you need eight or nine bottles, right,
nurse! Hurry up, I’m not gonna make it! And they be so nonchalant with your
piss, right. They’ll be talking about, this your piss, thank you. I could never
grab nobody’s piss like that, jack. I’d have to have some prongs and shit
before I grab some piss. I’d be going, all right, I’m going in to get the piss
now. All right, I have the piss, clear the hallway, I’m coming through.
Everybody, back off, please. And then they hook your ass up to that machine,
you know, where you look like Frankenstein. You get to watch your life beep
away. Right, you be beep, beep. You be watching, too, jack, cause if you see
beeeeeeeeeep, that’s your ass. Right, I woke up one morning, I saw beeeep, I
said, ahhhhh! Beeeep, beeeep, beeeep, beeeep, beeeep, beeeeeeep, beeeep,
beeeep, beeeep. Cause the hospital ain’t no place to get well. That’s the
truth, that ain’t no joke. You can die in there and nobody give a fuck, unless
you John Wayne or somebody. See, John Wayne can kick death’s ass. Didn’t he? I
mean, the dude, he had cancer one time, kicked death’s ass. Open heart surgery,
John Wayne kicked death’s ass. John Wayne just say, get the fuck out of here,
Death.”
maybe the unnamed secondbiggest chubby oval was
for The Duke but he lost his train of
thought
he was high
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