18.4.24


Scarlett Johannson
                            she gets under his skin
saw liked The Girl with the Pearl Earring  Johannes Vermeer
saw the painting at San Franciscos Legion of Honor
                                                       blew his mind the fortyfive minutes he spent with the canvas
mebbe obsessed  painted circa 1665
                                       made her twohunredeightynine years older than him

was pretty damn sure Ms Johannson got the role because she looked the Girl though it wasnt until he saw her character in Don Jon snapping gums talkin Bronx that he paid any REAL attention to her

   then she crushed him in Under the Skin 

                                                  fuck
been a fan sincenot a fanatic  her CGshit is tough to take
                                                            but a girls gotta pay her bills
Under the Skin was her ripe red cherry atop the sundae
                                                             but he had to eat it replace it with a freshnew cherry when he saw her Saturday Night Live performance as Alabama freshman senator Katie Britt giving the Republican rebuttal to President Bidens State of the Union address
                                               Christ
Wha the hell was the senator and her handlers thinkin  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCfLpuLdF8Q
last night in the tub,  day-between-2-Ts,  17  4. 24
1229,  Thursday,  18  4. 24

Don Jon  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A63Ly0Pvpk 

dessert

Thursday night Farmers Market

walking past a barbecue joint he saw two coworkers seated at a window counter having a bite

he rapped on the glass waved

they motioned him in

   walkingup behind them two coeds who were sitting beside them stood to leave  they offered him a stool

Hey thanks kiddos

they giggled
              Buhbye. continued giggling heads together as they walked off

Kiddos? Charlie asked  Yakiddin’ me?

Comparatively  They aryah

Yes. They are.

Howbout dinner?  Have dinner, I’ll pick it up.

I appreciate it Tim though no thanks
                                       Catching my bus turning he checked the illuminated Dixie Beer clock in twenty minutes I got leftover Kapusta eyeballs queried pork ribs  sauerkraut  in the icebox
Icebox?

Yah

People still say icebox?

He just did, Tim.

I heard him, I’m just saying.
                                 Howbout a beer?

No thanks I woudnt want to rush it
                                       I saw yahs in the window thought to stop

outside someone rapped the glass it rattled in its wood casement
                                                                     Mary
hilarious Mary curly blonde Mary six feet tall   a build that took ones breath away

they laughedrapped back she had startled them  

Mary waved expansively
                           in tow were five galpals wordround the office was they were taking Mary out to celebrate her divorce decree from a really shitty guy
                                         he cheated on her
Mary was on fire ecstatic  glowed honeyvanilla  buttermilk
                                                               HEY boys!feast your eyes.
grasping her pullover blouse at her belly she yanked it up over the top of her unfettered breasts pressed them against the glass
Jeez they gasped

stepping back  the cool glass prickling her nipples  she cupped her left breast hefted it  circlelicked her nipple  talented tongue
JEEZ

dropping it she laughed crazily pulled her blouse down roughly
                                                                  Later boys!
she walked off the covey behind her stumbled after her laughing uproariously

   Charlie   Tim   said nothing

Donsee tha everyday Mighty pleased I stopped
                                                       Well gents not a damnthings gonna outdo tha Think Ill stroll over catch my bus  Tomorrow


next morning he walked passed Marys cubicle
                                                 she was obviously nursing a hangover
Hey kiddo Good night

A fine night, the girls treated me real well.

It  definitely was
I didn’t know you hungout with Tim and Charlie.

I don just happened by

I knew they were having a bite, wanted to give the old timers a thrill.

We were thrilled

You’re not an old timer.

Oh but I am

Not by my book.

Youre sweet
                 Can you look again in your book
My book?

Yah
      Got a free weekend night coming up

   This weekend.

Dinner If you like
                     Anif you havent a dropdead favourite when I eat out I enjoy Italian because I havent the skill to make it at home  Figure why dine out on something you can make at home

she sat up eyesclearing I make sensational Italian.

he looked quizzical If you say 
No.
     I crush Italian come over to my place.

   Your place
                   Ill tellya wha  ifyare cookin lets go shopping after work  Ill cover the groceries  wine

You don’t have to.

I invited you to dinner

I like cooking.

Awright awright  I appreciate tha thank you    Sounds like weve got a date

emphatically A date.

Excellent

Oh. And dessert.
                   You like dessert.

Maybe mebbe I can have what you had last night

her blush was savage
                        though outdone my her grin and dimples

midnight,  Thursday,  18  4. 24
0956,  Thursday
Stephen Marley  Let Her Dance  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAjudNmHNwk

17.4.24


return to grim reality
                      hes AMAZED that Republican politicians continue to ask  Are you better off today than you were four years ago? https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-latest-news-2020-04-17/  
blows him away
                   whats the disconnect
how are they even holding office

as of 18March 2024  1,217,703 Americans have died from Trumpvirus hed suggest thats an underestimate  

as of this evening  1,219,487 deaths
59 deaths everyday for the past 30 days  

“ . . . Out in the street they call it murder”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-SCf7OAAYU

1913,  day-between-2-Ts,  17  4. 24
Damien Marley  Welcome to Jamrock

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

had to changingup rearrange his vernacular

when things stared him in the face he cant blink  can Not see
                                                                   onceseen cant unsee

maybe not changeup
                       an augmentation

bitchslap had to remain

couldnt toss it wholesale to the side  discarded
                                                    might need it again   someday
enter
       Brookeslapped
more pleasant than it sounds

it simmered a longwhile before brought to a suddendeserving Boil
                                                                       onceseen cant unsee


it struck him odd that pool parties he attended as he got older had nothing to do with the pool

he was invited
                 accepted

conversations alcohol  flowed

the majority of people wearing unwet swimsuit worked their way into the house

he swam

Brooke sunbathed

he had the pool to himselfwhich was dandy

he liked Brooke exactly where she was
                                          on a chaise lounge wearing a pink thong
her tannedfanny was built for a thong
                                         on the Seventh Day Gawd must have created it for her ass


Are you going to quit swimming, quit with the laps?

they only knew of each other through others met oncebriefly prior

Theres plenty of room if youd like to swim

   No. This isn’t a swimsuit.  I thought we’d get to know each other better, but how can we do that if you’re swimming.

Ill tellyawha Im not tired
                          Howbout this Ill proposeyou propose  a subject subjects an when I return havin given it some thought  well discuss

that was how then next halfhour fifty minutes progressed


she laughed
Im being serious
Go on. or That’s impossible. or You’re crazy!
                                              she had a delicious gay laugh deep dimples which he dug  the laps bought him time to conjure the ridiculous their chain was continuous  engaging

   Arya gonna come in

I’m . no . this isn’t a swimsuit . . we’re . . . we’re spending the night. he forgot she had a boyfriend I think I’ll go in.  I’d rather shower. 

Ill join you her head tipped birdlike
                                         Im spending the night too
Lemme take five fast laps

   absently Five.  she stood pickedup a diaphanous shell to cloak herself
                                                                  Five.  I’m counting.


coming out the shallow end she accurately tossed him a towel she took from the cabana

Thank you

Can’t have you dripping all over the house.

Straight shot inanup the stairs Brooke

You’ll drip.
I wont
        toweled off

Awright lead on right behind you There is a God

   she smiled coyly You won’t lead?
OhHellno
          he winked Id rather follow No matter yare a wonder from every angle

I’m a wonder?

I wonder

then silently likely each in their own headhe was in his they crossed the wide flagstone patio to eight steps up onto the deep porch

mesmerised he hot on her tail two steps shy of the deckshe stopped he banged into her almost knocked her over
Jesus kiddo taillights  Excuse me  Pullup short tap the brakes

she laughed playfully gloriously  Gotcha.
                                            he caught her dimplestheir reflection off the slidingglass doors  shed sipped mojitos to his beers poolside

inside they crossed the great room and went behind a vast sectional to the flight of carpeted steps leading upstairs crossing behind it she pulledup again
he walked into her again
                           she laughed before he got Taillights out
starting up she sped up the steps
                                    landing  the bathroom was directly across an eightfoot hallway that seconded as a gallery family photos interspersed with small objet d’art paintings

feeling like a kid he sped after her

threetwo steps shy of the hall she hit the brakes again
                                                          he cracked her on the ass
and because they were enclosed  ceiling and walls  the CRACK sounded louder than he had actually cracked her

she didnt OWspun to face him her smile remained laughter gurgled in her throat

You provoked me

backing into the bathroom she asked Shower?
                                                      You promised.
I said Id join you
                   Come in

   No.  You promised.


if he promised he promised

neverever went back on his word


   in the shower
                    An open relationship  No shit

2300ish,  Sunday,  14  4. 24
1247,  day-between-2-Ts,  17  4. 24

struggling with a bad back
                              happens occasionally
he hurt himself as a teenager and like an old acquaintance who thinks theyre a friend they come around but since they dont come around much he tolerates them contends
theyre good for a laugh
                         although fail to comprehending the laugh is on them
theyre the butt of the joke

   but hope springs eternal

he anticipates ONE DAY theyll get it
                                       in the meantime
YUKYUK

he yukyuks pain
                  blatantly it reminds him hes alive
hes dandy with that

this morning tenderlygingerly sallying his way doorframe to doorframe to the bathroom  entering he lunged to catch himselfGRABBED a hold of the sink top so he didnt drophis right leg palsiedplaying patsy
                                                                                               a hot ZINGERelectric sputtering
couldnt catch his breath
found himself facing himself in the mirror
                                           his green MIAMI tshirt read IMAIM
had to laugh

then sighed Yeees
                   and at that very samemoment he wondered  wondered about people who were waiting
he was always occupied
                           never waited
and cut of that cloth
                      wondered why they were waiting
he thought they could pursue an exit but   You hear listen to yourself   I do   If they pursued an exit strategy   Yesyes  They woudnt be waiting   Precisely
                                                       conversing with one of his Mariachis
often he answered his questions without askingmost of the time without parlaying with a Mariachi but some were as forward as he  which is why they got along
                                               yet the interrupt woudnt stop himthem from asking
Whyya waiting Lemme guess Gawds decision

When my Maker calls, I’ll go.

Mariachi  Don do it don do it Ohno ya don
                                          when his back straightens out he was going down to the Pacific boardwalk and have a coloured tshirt printed Wha colour  MAKER
                                                       and stay away from mirrors
was no MIAMI

0859,  day-between-2-Ts,  17  4. 24

16.4.24


   he paused   uncharacteristically
                                                 for a goodly time

dicedassessed his mortality


he determinedsurprised him  that a little sooner  a little later  a little right  a little left  nine times hed have been dead
which patting himself on the back made him better off than a cat

in addition
            salted in with the littles were two instances where his girlfriendlater wife his daughters plucked his ass out of the fire
            perhaps not necessarily lethal

but saved him from horrible decisions
                                         which
while no basis in fact
                        would have definitely put him at risk

his inborn ethics threatened others
if he didnt like the players

   historically
                 he was loose cannon
a voracious reader paperboy teenage butcher soldier  renegade

didnt play nice with others

wasnt a team player

a solo act


his girlfriend plucked himdespite his reticence out of the Miami drug scene  he was making serious bank off hashish cocaine
            cocaine introduced him to sketchy characters nobody would miss
the ocean
Everglades
evergators

while his daughters just being alive convinced him not to kill the professional who put drugs into his wifes hands that killed her
             they had been suspected before  malpractise

detectives couldnt make a compelling case

they he believed lacked ethics


although he realised had she gone missing a head and hands he was Suspect Number One
                                                                                                 but he was heartbroken
his girls still young

it would have been horrible not to have their parents


   his girlfriend  his daughters
                                      those were Sane moments
definitely not his shtick
                         which isnt bad for not being a Jew  Jews and Germans had names for everything

1030,  Sunday,  14  4. 24
1230,  2sday,  16  4. 24

15.4.24


standing abruptly amid mixed company the gentlewoman an English breed lineage which made no difference to him suggestedurged they talk in the hall
                                        she lead the way

entering the next room she turned sharply on her heels but before a word escaped her lips he stilled her heldup his hand         

her eyes started a real firecracker   hed like to light her wick
                                                      Excuse me
Yes.

This he waved his hand in the air asif fanning smoke   This is a hall

Yes.

it was enormous

his rented bungalow could fit inside it
                                         Arya shittin me he hoped shed shit in return
she didnt decorum winning out
this was England not America
                                she was something else here that defied his understandingChrist  hed been on bar crawls with her in Chicago held her hair while she heaved

suits of armor stood erectbacks against woodpaneled walls
                                                               small hed dare say petite
assumed them forebearers ancestors perhaps knights who pledged fealty to her family   
                                                                                              slight
tins
      he wandered away from her  flipped a visor    a second

What is it you’re doing?are you looking for something?

Kippers  Sardines
                   Not oysters octopus OHhellno certainly not I refuse to eat something smarter than me  Present company   Id make an exception

she snarledharrumphed could with the best of them
                                                     Gads, what you prattle about.

You wanted to talk to me
                          circled his hand in the air above his head again   Talk in the hall

   Yes.   her eyes went frosty


Yes

Yes.

My exception toss you for a loop

Enough.

Havent begun
               Had I  enough woudnt enter your lexicon   Thasaid     Wha

   Whatever it was  she shrugged It’s left me.

Thas unlike you

It tis.

I say something inappropriate to your friends

   Did you?

Well  Thas the extent of how I can help
                                          Hell Yawerent even part of the conversation were off entertaining elsewhere  You were misplaced until you took me by the arm an commanded we talk in the hall

   Tha any help

No.  NO.


Care to discuss eating octopussy

   No.
       You mustn’t can’t carry on like that.

Mustnt I
          Pedigree doesnt agree  Thas who Ill assume is in the real room  An this hall
Quiet.

Harsh
        Is this the entitled you  A oneeighty from the Chicago you

I’m sorry.

Not unless yare apologising

   Yes. Apologising. You’re churlish, demanding that there’s a distinction between the two.

There is

I apologise. she nodded the tiara she wore shook in the shock of redhair she wore up he preferred it down

I appreciate tha thank you
                                     Still nothing

a pentup breath escaped her lungs
                                      Nada. Nothing.
Lets go back in then
                     Ill tell well tell everyone we broke out had ourselves a quickie Theyll eyeball your gown for telltale signs   Evidence

   Eyeball
            I woud

You're terrible.
If I knew this woud be up for debate I woudve brought testimoanies Dated   Signed

   So lemme guess . . . M O A N I E S.

Yes
       See how well you know me Thank you for inviting me   Id think a Polish Yank woudbe a hard sell

Well, you’re easy on the eyes and I’ve tossed your name around . . a bit.

OH  My reputation precedes me

   You . . you can say that.

I did
     Cum he grabbed her hand  Lets go back  Hair in there Id like to curl
she let him followed his lead


briefly
        can take the girl out of Chicago but not Chicago out of the girl

1245perhaps,  day-between-2-Ts,  3  4. 24
1429,  Monday,  15  4. 24