it pestered him 

                    sometimes he wished itd just sit backchill  enjoy the ridelandscape

he thought that in a secure chamber 

                                       a wayaway from the maddening catcurious crowd

Page 346 I made noise yesterday as we read it made you stopnote the page  

Yes I remember

You still remember

Yes

     You  engine  me  pilot   Lemme get there woudya he flipped through the pagesWill in the World

Its the second sentence first paragraph beginning with Sata . .

. . Yes I know 

                 Right here This 

Yes

“. . . Satan provides other means for witches to please princes, ‘by fair banquets and dainty dishes, carried in short space from the farthest part of the world.’ And he seems to confer upon his agents spectral forces, ‘which all are but impressions in the air, easily gathered by spirit,’ in order to delude men’s senses.” 

                                                                       THATSIT 

Whasit

THAT Delude mens senses

I think I kno . .

. . Of course you do You concur . .

. . Of course I do 

                   Delude men’s senses

And

Diluted menses I aint shy

No you aint 

              An evrytime ya make me proud

Like a proud Pappa 

Bustin my buttons 

                    My boy gettin down makin it real not offput

Nature isnt

Majority of your pitiful sex is

Their loss

Play tha close to your  chest I don think ya got a vest

No Closest thing I got is a dickie 

You still have a dickie

I got four 

           Love turtlenecks

You renegade you

A fashionplate man 

                     Retro Vintage  Whagoes round comes round   Theyve got me laid

I recall 

        Dig I get into the fireworks too YEOW   Too hot to handle

 

   freestyling with his brain

420preferred,  Saturday,  15  7. 23

1719,  SUNday,  16  7. 23

Afrobeat Makers  Vol. 2  In da Masta  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8H03PpAQl8

hed heard some bizarre claims to fame over the years 

                                                         How about you? I shared.

I honestly havent a claim

Come on, brushed shoulders with wellknowns, celebrities . .

. . Not much of a claim

Certainly is . .

. . If someones impressedperhaps infatuated by stars celebrities I think theyre no different than anyone else just another someone A postman server librarian  Nothing more

You have to be kidding. 

                         the solemnity in their face 

it took everything he had not to crack a smilegouts of laughter would follow he managed sober 

                                                                                                    Im not kidding Im not impressed Wanna impress me Put your pants on differently than I do   Levitate Now you have my attention

Which still woudnt fashion mecolour me fan

I don’t believe you.

I don care 

best two bizarre claims said to his face

one in Minnesota

one California

they stumbled over themselves to get it out 

                                               an as they did swelled like hot air balloons

My girlfriend she slept with Bob Dylan.

Yah

Yes. Pretty cool huh?

Been where Bobbys was

                           in his head flashed Kilroy peeking over a wallscrawled on it  KILROY WAS HERE  he was sure to keep his distance  guy was more than a little annoyedupset he wasnt impressed

Cali

same deal

met a guy at a beach party 

blew a joint

he leaned back on his blankethad rolledup his towel to be able to continue to watch the waveshad a boogieboard and the healthy girls frolicking in the shallows

                                            Thank you Thawas tasty   A very pleasant high 

You bet.

           Understand you’ve only been out here a few months.

Yah

Been south? LA? Hollywood?

No 

    No interest

No interest?

Have an aversion to big cities Spent far too long in Chicago Aside from museums art ya coudnt make me make a trip

I like LA. I met my girlfriend at a club there.  You’ll never guess.

I wont

No man, you’d never guess.

I woudnt

Guess.

Yasaid I woudnt

I’ll tellya.

Youd have to

My girlfriend had sex with Steve Miller, man, Steve Miller Band. Cool huh?

he didnt care for his music though he didnt say

Kinda makes me . . famous.

How so.

We had sex with the same girl our tastes are similar.

he didnt want to meet his girlfriend the waves pickedup Hey man excuse me Im boogieing Talk to you in a bit sprinting down to the waterslipped between the women playing in the water

they could have his cooler blanket towel flips 

                                                he had his keys

 

Twists  hed yet to meet a freak chick who confided in him

                                                               Thankgawd

1150,  Thursday,  13  7. 23

1446, SUNday,  16  7. 23

Ya know whas fun

Tell me, you’ve already asked.

Its fun

         Im thrilled every time

What's fun?

Wakingup in a full bathtub

What?  You . . fell asleep taking a bath . .

. . Was soaking

That sounds dangerous, and stupid.

Nah 

      I do it pretty frequently

   Aren’t you afraid of drowning.

No

At my place there'd be good chance you’d drown.

Your bathtubs tha big

It is, easily fit two.

Somehow invited to bathe with you I coudnt imagine falling asleep  really reallyhard  to imagine

her face twisted humourouslyhe laughed

                                            Not to bathe with me . .

. . Happy to scrub your backwhaever You can scrub mine 

                                                                Sounds deelightful

she snickered 

               Well friend, Im not putting it past you that you brought up falling asleep in the tub to get here, precisely.

I didnt know the size of your tub

You’ve been over, parties.

I have 

         Thought I was pretty opaque

YOU.

      There’s nothing opaque subtle about you.

   Nuts

            Know me too well

We’re friends.

Gotta be friends first

                       We in tha deep  arent we

That deep?

             I think we are.

How the hell did tha happen Thawasnt my intent

You had intentions?

Aw yah

          You circumvented them by being absolutely more engaging thoughtful humourous intelligent than I gave you credit I quickly treasured your friendship an didnt want to risk tha 

                                                                       Not for all the tea in China poppies in Afghanistan blooddiamonds in Africa sex workers in Thailand the Orient  fish in the seas

 

   It’s not called the Orient they’re not Orientals.

If Im Occidental theyre Oriental

You identify as Occidental do you?

I do 

     An also Accidental Discovered when I put the screws to my parents

You put the screws to your parents?

I put em to anybody Familys not verboten despite wha they think   Not in my book

Me?

   You  Honestly

You’re always honest with me, fiercely so.

Yes 

     Yes Id screw you

0204,  Saturday,  15  7. 23

1303,  Sunday,  16  7. 23

sometimes Shakespeare mired him 

                                        King John

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, 

Lies in (her) bed, walks up and down with me,

Puts on (her) pretty looks, repeats (her) words,

Remembers me of all (her) gracious parts

Stuffs out (her) vacant garments with (her) form. 

                                                    (3.4.93 – 97)

he remembers dailywakes daily to her 

                                          not being Here

he didnt think absence could weigh as heavy

hed suffered many

none

he wasnt going to shrug her off

hadnt ever

            once after hupping their daughter up on his shoulders he remembered his wife ask When are you going to put her down, let her walk?

he answered askew as a matter of fact didnt turn to face her answered the blue ether or anyone who overheard When I can no longer pick her up 

                             on occasion as a fullgrown woman when the mood struck them for the simple fuck of it 

theyd revisit her youth hed squat shed get on his shoulders hed stand an walkround they were humoured by looks and the looks-not-wanting-to-be-seen-looking

screwballs

            like father like daughter 

   so serious Shakespeare

                              Serious serious serious 

he plucked from the spiderweb wonderful happy moments to help offset his weighted sorrow    

1229,  Reggaefriday,  14  7. 23

1111, Sunday, 16  7. 23

Tony Allen  Kindness  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmoiqE1UT4M

   his Makers

               his Adam an Eve were goneUp an left him

Adam longago 

                an aged artist who lived with his wife in the neighbourhood  he cut his lawn raked his leaves shoveled his snow learned about art learned he wasnt a painter 

Eve

     freshman year high school English teacher

clipped obit arrived in the mail

                                no return address postmark obscuredsmeared didnt recognise the handwriting  didnt recognise her  the picture 

he wished newspapers would quit including the deceaseds face  like cheap advertisements accompanying poorlywritten parcels poor biographies 

                               he was going to write his own  

she was twentytwo when they last saw other 

                                               he heading into summer vacation  she was leaving forced to vacate her job  it was her first year teaching 

                                     because of him

he insistedpushed  she obliged went endround CURriculum didnt abide it 

                                                                               enraged  thats how he wrote it on her classroom chalkboard

she took the chalk from his trembling hand  sympathetically tilted her head 

                                                                                Not clever, Joe. 

angrily Come off it  coud have written cleared his tight throat CUR-lick-colon  realised tha in all my other classes this year he choked back tears I don want to be taught by dogs 

he was heartbroken 

the school board sent her packing 

                                   he couldnt believe squeezing her for more information wanting more knowledge would cost her her job

I understood the risk. 

she was an excellent teacher  surpassed his junior high English teacher  Mr. Carter to you, laddie.  a doughty acerbic Englishman who he cherished

three consecutive wonderful years of English on top of four years prior quiet instruction how to selfishly be himself 

   as selfish as the eldest of six kids could be

       

3PMish,  Saturday, 15  7. 23

0919,  Sunday,  16  7. 23

Bad Angels  Black Background V  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf9nK9o9ItY 

Free  Heartbreaker  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfNxuSjfPbw 

pickin apricots sunswarmed juicy apricots  drips on his stubbled chin 

                                                                           hatpins aprons crossed his mind he thought phonaesthetics

Please, please no thinkin, I’m heading out on the town with my beau.           

Excuse me

           Excuse me I wasnt aware you were there

Yacoud look round.

I don see you an yours coming ya materialiseappear in the blink of an eye myeye 

                                                                                       Ya know tha

Well we forget sometimesIm distracted. A DATE!

   A beau

Don sound so surprised. Yes.

Is beau one of my Mariachispossibly incest kid or just visiting  I woudve thought Id have felt his entry unless hes really sneaky bastard 

Were all bastards, an youre just a roost.

A roost  

Never considered tha? 

   Had not 

               Bit of a surprise though summons  unfortunately   turkey vultures

A committee?

Ah yare sharp grrl  Wanna keep going

Committees all I know.

Its also called a venue or volt

I didnt know tha.

Furthurmore if I don bore ya . .

. . Notever.

When theyre in flight a kettle an this will blow your mind when theyre feeding on a carcass   A wake

Jesus.

Jesussquared cubed yah Too bad higher powers have no such names

Higher powers?

Yah threecubed threetimesthreetimesthree Twentyseven Higher powersay to the fifth I wont bore you with the threetimesbit  twohunredfortythree   Higher powers

We coud call it Godded. Goddedfour Goddedfive.

You capitalising

I woud.

Id considerconcede godded lowercase g

I coud agree.

Done

       So why are we here

   Hatpins an aprons.

Yes

I prefer the adornment to the former.

Hatpins 

         You wear a hat

I have humdingers! Theyll only stay on my head with a pin. 

                                                               An evening out  restaurant nightclubs cocktails dancing. Like your buddy Eddie woud.

Were you around then 

                        Thawas some time ago

It was. I really dug his shoes – you know the ones.

Silver

Yees.

Platform soles heels silver buckle studded with rhinestones

Those are the ones. Disco. He coud really cut a rug. 

                                                        You didnt. 

I did not

Youre coordinated agile you coud have.

I woud not

Your loss . .

. . As many have said 

                         I suffered disco until I found jazz the jazz clubs

I remember hung round with some real cats.

I did 

     Well Im happy you were therefortha  When did you come aboard

Jumped Bunny jumped ship sorry to say. You remember the Vette her boyfriend left for her to drive when he was drafted.

Yes

He got killed.

I didnt know tha

No. Bunny took it hard . . an rather ride with her to her demise I jumped you.

Demise I didnt know tha

Im sorry. She was mixed up with some of his friends who I didnt care for. Five of themshe wasnt driving were killed in a car wreck. Elderly couple in the car they hit also died. Lotsa vagrant Mariachis that night.   Talk about diaspora.

Monday afternoon,  10  7. 23

1307, Saturday,  15  7. 23

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/stones-in-vintage-costume-jewelry-4026020

Prince Fatty & Shniece McMenamin  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G91A5dk3Lpc 

Shakespeare Richard II 

                          Bolingbroke speaks

I have been studying how I may compare

This prison where I live unto the world; 

And for because the world is populous,

And here is not a creature but myself,

I cannot do it. Yet I’ll hammer it out.

My brain I’ll prove the female to my soul,

My soul the father, and these two beget

A generation of still-breeding thoughts. 

                                         (5.5.1 – 8)

generation of still-breeding thoughts 

                                       a generation  say  The Greatest The Silent The Baby Boomer GenerationX Millennials GenerationZ Gen Alpha  their years 1901 – 1924 1925 – 1945 1946 – 1964 1965 – 1979 1980 – 1994 1995 – 2012 2013 – 2025

                      looked to him like dates on gravestones 

OR

     did he mean GENERATINGcreating still-breeding LIVINGlively thoughts  bacteria swabbedzigzag on agar held in Pyrex petri dishes

he liked to think the latter 

the words their artfulness continue to astonish him  although he remains disturbed when people wrinkle their noses at his mention of Shakespeare   Kinda highbrow under their breath Snob, don’t you think?   Or perhaps thas lowbrow philistine primitive crude “krud” percolated in his brain though not exhaled foul exhaust of you perhaps unable to think for yourselfperhaps  an orderfollower fetching sticks like a gooddog for a bone or a pizzleBULLY stix YUMYUM 

   he didnt see this comin

but whenever peninhand looks suspiciously like penisinhand hes revealed something unexpected

1229, Reggaefriday,  14  7. 23

1057,  Saturday,  15  7. 23

Hollie Cook  Move My Way  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0OqrJupaU

Bootsie 

         how she got tha nickname he didnt knowdidnt wanna knowdidnt ask

she called

it was late

later where she called from

she was drunk

knew better than to drunk text

he straightened her out on tha 

You don’t mind?

You wanna talk

Yah.

Ive told you I don mindwill talk with you whenever you call at anytime  Im here youre there

But you moveddidn’t want to be here.

No I didnt although I miss your face every day I miss you 

                                                             Im happy you called

Whas new baby

Aw, I love that you call me baby. Nobody else does.

Youve been my baby since I laid eyes on you

                                                Except for my daughter youre the most beautiful baby Ive ever seen

I’m not beautiful anymore. I’ve lost my hair, my eyebrows eyelashes.  I’m not beautiful.

You are  Youre beautiful inside an out 

                                         Nothing can make me believe otherwise

I love you very much.

Yabetter

I love you’re my big brother.

Im thrilled you took me on

No. You took me on, have always had my back, have always protected me. 

                                                                                Even when I’m a pain in the ass.

We all have our moments baby

We do.   Yah we do. 

                         But you never waver, you have taken the brunt of my anger so many times.

It wasnt directed at me

                         Collateral   Annot without cause

You’re sweet, you're sweet to me.

To you youre the only person who gets to call me tha

                                                              she was one of three people he knew who had a soul

1346,  Reggaefriday,  22  7. 23

1305,  Reggaefriday,  14  7. 23

Bobby Byrd  I Know You Got Soul  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVbpA-BuSdU 

glancingup over the top of his bookcatching the lay of the land as he walked he glimpsed it sidestepped it

probably ditched from a car 

                             would have thought theydve tossed it where they parked otherwise  Look At Me

an announcement

he didnt have to look evaded it 

nevertheless 

               made him smile  affectionately remembered those days

he stoppedput his foot on a retaining wall took the slip of paper he placed at the back of the book for occasions like this pen from behind his ear and printed 

condom

condone

condemn

indemnify

identify

DNA

divulge

indulge

vulgar

bulge

cock 

      too hot to handle 

steamin creamin pussy

1330,  day-between-2-Ts,  12  7. 23

1117, Reggaefriday,  14  7. 23

Mary Hopkins  Those Were the Days  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KEhWTnWvE 

https://genius.com/Frank-zappa-the-mothers-and-jeff-simmons-bwana-dik-demo-lyrics

she ran mindfulness apps on her smartphone 

                                                Don’t get on me about that wouldya? 

Apps  Really

I haven’t time . .

. . Make time baby take time 

                               Ya don youll get ill 

she did 

killed her

nobody could tell him otherwise

                                   she burned the candle on both ends

had been muscular healthy

undercut herself to such a degree that when her illness reared its ugly head she couldnt halt it reverse it it diminished debilitated her swept her away like ash before the bristle of a minutehand

                                                                                  irretrievable 

I am mindful 

You are, not a soul’s . .

. . Being

Okay. she grimacedhe displeased her Being. Few are as you.

An only because I have timehave the luxury 

                                               I don take it for granted

No, no you don’t, you’re always deeply grateful. 

                                                      Although it’s come at a brutal cost. 

he noddedhis eyes shined

she looked away

                   I have to say, sometimes you seem boastful.

Which is unlike me

It is, yes.

Im not boastful 

                 In those moments I was being provocativewas trying to gall you trying anything I coud think of

aware 

wary

mindful

minefullness

minefield

Youll excuse me if I am brazen abrasive

                                            You wrote in your text insisted I THINK  Eleven times

Youre obviously unaware of my mindfulness If you had implied otherwise to either of my girls they woud have set you straight They woud have told you youre wrong turned you about patted you on the butt an sent tha notion packing There there 

Am I correct

Had you come up in conversation . .

. . Which I believe is unlikelyyour conversations centering on your individual relationships with them They knew better  They woudnt speak for me make assumptions

If you came up it was likely in the tenor of How’s your Dad? as they’d about mine.

As I thought Thank you 

                             Therefore  Youre oblivious

   Oblivious. That’s strong. 

                                Although I . . . I suppose I am.

An supposing you are you must realise how audacious it was to tell me to think

                                                                                       Eleven times                                    

I replied The past is prologue

                               A Shakespeare line for Antonio in The Tempest Actually he wrote Whats past is prologue

Prologue is an event or action that leads to another event or action

I asked youI assume you looked it up for own gratification for your own sake For my sake For the utter difference in the lives weve lead

                   For your less experience than mine

I did.

Good 

       For the thinks you made I am happy to address them point by point 

I woud have urged you to call although I thought it was evident  Tha was my error

We can beginning I wrote out your text transcribed it You have it before you

No. 

No

I don’t want to discuss it.

No Wha do you suggest

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Ignore it 

           Dealing with it may cause a more difficult situation

You’re known to be difficult.

   Because I ask questions

Because your questions cut to the bone.  You are not kind.

I am not Im not inclined to build a worthless house of cards

Then please, can we not discuss it.

Tha woud satisfy you

I’ve thought about it, I’ve thought about it very hard. 

                                                         Satisfy isn’t the right word.  But yes.

You prefer to pursue it?

You asked we wont  No 

                             Lastly I don think    I know

2322,  2sday,  11  7. 23

0949,  Reggaefriday,  14  7. 23

Free  Heartbreaker  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfNxuSjfPbw