Not going to top my predecessors
Youll not be impressed
ON WITH IT they shouted
Not going to top my predecessors
Youll not be impressed
ON WITH IT they shouted
A dream theyre all dreams
eyes
still enraged You don’t distinguish one from the other?
No
You voice high in her chest haven’t been terrified?
Ive been frightened but I remind myself Im dreaming I cant wont be hurt
Have you been murdered in a dreamdied
. in a dream?
More times than I can say
And yet . . you don’t call those nightmares?
Why . . why are you telling me this?
Because someone others agree with
you An I like how they sound
How they sound.
You’re a real piece of work. And terribly unsympathetic.
Finis.
Yes
Then you’re lucky.
Nightmares efface dissolve Become dreams
I can hear it in your voice
Thank you. I wish you were here, Papa.
We did. We didn’t take it for
granted.
And
It was declined.
The reason
They, management, called it
arcane.
They said arcane
Can you believe it?
I did
Doesn’t sound like it was
successful.
What happened?
It was taken down because I was
the only person making suggestions
Cowards.
Im afraid so
Well. It’d be unlike you not to accept it’s removal.
Few steps down the hall from the lunchroom then right an at
the end of that hall was the CEOs office I went to see him he laughed Dave said he had an open door policy It was closed I rapped on it an
let myself in
You let yourself in.
Open door policy
How’d that go?
Told Dave that since the
suggestion box was no longer Id come directly to him Afterwards Id submit it to the rest of the
company through interoffice email
How did you not get fired?
Got to wonder wha odds the bets Vegas
would make accept mount
Jesus man, the way you think.
But I do
At night you sleep.
You’re . . . somethinging .
forsure.
need
Didnt say you had to I am
I’m not.
I hear you. Ain’t a soul I know
who refuses want more than you. Often I think I remind myself of you and your
carbon footprint.
I can’t help myself. We’re
friendshell . usually we talk every day.
We do but we don talk about other people
We don’t . . . do we?
No
I . ah
. . just . realised that we don’t talk about people.
Ya know. Yeah. It is.
I hadnt planned it It occurred to me Like reggae
You didn’t discern, think it
out?
I was raised Catholic too.
I know
Okay. Thanks. This conversation
is already more than I’d anticipated.
Really
My knead
I think I need to move on it
Is this kindalike a confession?
If you wish Perhaps
I feel honored.
Don let it go to your head Youre the only person I talk
with face to face
So, you thinking of putting up your asocial behavior.
If I knead Ill have to
You have a plan?
No Im just putting out it into the world into the ether Suspect it will evolve as reggae did
If you had a plan it might happen
quicker.
Im patient
Ill take tha
You’re welcome. he smiled blissfully
Thank you
My knead
Yeah?
K N E A D
suddenlytipped forward like he
was kneed in the balls Jesus.
he had two
You don’t know what you’re
talking about.
gentlyhe shook his head It’s easy for you.
No.
I’m not you.
Absolutely he
knew how he felt about that
Never.
Sing?
I can’t.
Full circlehuh
Ifya listened to you youd have interrupted as Ive done for
the nonsense
people began quietly moving off
like a clean pane of glass broken by a smooth round stone
squaringup angerflushed grimacingsneering I know you?
the broken glass slid away dispersed
he ruined bonafides assembly
Well, what?
struggled to get aboard a bus
Im sorry I have a neurological disorderhad a fall I suffer tremors Sometimes theyre worse than others Troubled today
driver seem unmoved
Awcomon man look in my eyes you look like youve been around the block
Thank you
the driver seated himself
Im a handsomely paid fluffer
“Last June, Pfizer, the lone U.
S. manufacturer (can
you say monopoly) of their injection, notified the
Food and Drug Administration of an ‘impending stock out’ (thas crap – thas coercion)
that it anticipated would last a year (that’s
extortion). (Pfizer)
blamed ‘an increase in syphilis infection rates
as well as competitive shortages.’”