assassinhands of the clock

    see the old man

hes been every tick of every clock of every time-enslaver since he was born

a coolie

        a kuli-slave  deaf slave    deaf to the myriad ticks

human beings are dictatedarranged arraigned  deranged by time

untimely  late

                our independence

times escaped criminals

                             for the time being

eventually whirlingprowling secondhands find us have us again by throat

theres one clock we confide in

that is our unique assassin

                              other clocks are accomplices keeping an eye on us for it  surveilling us

and as they watch they reel and grin arms wild hands spasmodic  enthralled

                                                                                   because theyre in on our murder and anticipate it like children waiting for when Christmas comes to unwrap their pretty wrappedanribboned gifts

they expect our compliance

                              murderers must have their murdered

and because the old man knows this he goes out and smashes clocks

he kills the killers

                     then returning home near senseless with joy and optimism he patiently waits to turn his voluptuous hourglass  she has seduced him with her soft movement her subtle goldengrains of sand

he believes because she hasnt hands she wont be partywont be watchingwont  be a voyeur when he dies

she quietly reminds him of the Sandman who hums Smoke Gets in Your Eyes when he tireswhen his head nodswhen he retires to bed

               and as he strips the bed down changes into his nightshirt she mutters Old man, you better dream like a motherfucker because you aren’t coming back from this ride.

shes in on it  shes time

                           . . . cool bluewater . . . hes swimming like when he was a boy . . . he shakes its grasp  like a flyingfish sails over the sundappled sparklingsurf . . . the water grays  darkens . . . tick . tick . tick . tick . tick . cuckoo . Where? he wonders . . . he struggles to breathe . . . hes suffocating . . . he thinks I’m dying . . . You are . . . You filthy pig! . . . Old man . tick . tick . Are you that greedy? . tick . tick . tick . You’ve had a longer life than most . tick . tick . cuckoo . You’ve outlived everyone you knew . tick . tick . tick . tick . the sound of clots of dirt spadefuls replace the black lapping waves . tick . tick . lapping at the edge of his unconsciousness . . . he thinks he can beat it Wakie! Wakie! he tells himself . . . Open your eyes, open your eyes! he urges himself . tick . . . but he cant . tick . tick . he tries to pinch himself . tick . cuckoo . but he cant . tick . he cant move . tick . tick . hes under blackwater . cuckoo . . . I’m not coming back.

pitchblack

    TICK . TICK . TICK . . hears assassinclock as it kills him         

2316,  Tuesday,  14  9. 04

345preferred,  Saturday,  22  6. 24

The Platters  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJRJC_5gzY

Chamber Brothers  Time Has Come Today  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqwzQ7g-Cc

Which is she?

sensuous v. sensual

                      thadbe a great trial to attend

sensuous refers to physical tactile pleasure or beauty

sensual sexual pleasure

Shes both

            I said she was wired exquisitely   She is exquisite

Exquisite?

            he could see by his expression hed not been with an exquisite woman

of all the women hed been with only she hed call exquisite

                                                                 Yes

How do you mean?

You tell me whaya think

Delicate.

No

     Weve been rough

Then I don’t know.

Pretty feeble

You have to insult me?

When the depth of your sounding is so shallow

                                                       Yes I do

Probably feeblesquared

So you tell me . . 

. . Because youre thick

    Her senses are so exquisite  its asif her skin was flayed  nerves  exposed raw   asif rubbing third degree burns

Immense pleasure immense pain

That doesn’t sound good.

    Shes exquisite

                       Her mind likewise

Ill never meet a woman like her again

1739,  Thursday,  20  6. 24

1244,  Saturday,  22  6. 24

James Gang  Ashes the Rain and I  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUr1wVf29b8

    Whadafuck was tha about

they shruggedalmost looked choreographed

No one

            Usually you monkeys are gnawin at the bit

one with their hands stuffed in their pockets stepped forward

Yah

      Wha

We havent a fuckin clue either

                                 they stepped back again into the throng

his Mariachis speechless

will wonders never cease

he thought they were children

they were dressed like children

he pulled reluctantly into a gas station to use the Mens Room

curiously the Mens and Ladies Rooms were separated by the store inside the gasoline station

usually plumbing is kept close

a key wasnt needed for the Mens Room

the door was wideopen

even with it open the foetid bathroom miasma was thick

entering he was greeted by a stained sink coldwater tap only a scratched metal mirror above it  

opposite the sink was a tall urinal with standard gnawed chewing gum cigarette butts at ones toes pieced octagonal tiles were bleached of color by urine

the stall door was loosely held shut by a clotheshanger

as he enterednegotiated what was an asshole of a bathroom a kid ran up behind him Pleaseplease I really have to go lemme go first I really gotta go

he was slightly impacted but could hold it

kid noisily relieved himself

as they jimmied the hanger to get out a second kid rushed in pulled the same bit  PleaseI think Im going to crap in my pants

kid groaned loudlyexploded into the pot 

he discerned an echo

undoing the latch exiting a third raced in bullrushed the stall I REAALY GOTTA GO

caught his eye

kid had stubble

he slammed the door swinging closed with the heel of his hand the guy had undone his belthis pants were coming down he stoopedgrabbed him by the armpits lifted him off his feet turned planted him before the urinal

                                                                                                       After me chum

his guts grumbled

feces at the door

ached

       before squatting he confirmed there was toilet paper

they werent kids

they were midgets

fuckin taken advantage of by midgets

at City Limits was a poster

                             CIRCUS COMING TO TOWN

fuckin clowny midgets

hed been hoodwinked

flipping the latchthinking that was probably THE MOST disgusting toilet he ever relieved himself in midget stood in his way

     I shit in my pants

Listen man thumbing over his shoulder  Might have been far better than shittin in there 

0808,  Saturday,  22  6. 24

1123,  Saturday

Stones  Can’t Always Get What You Want  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dfYcQ_r_x8

she hesitatedhe didnt

                             she groaned  I didn’t think you’d shoot.

Awkid ya know me better

they had always at oddswere kids together played doctor they were good at that but they saw things differently separate  drastically

didnt gel

grew apart

her violence

             her viciouswords rhetoric how she intoned growled  violated  battered as ferociously as his fists but unlike his her bruises took longer to heal  were deep psychic  blackdoubt infected infested

his compassion was hard won

hers less

birdshot dimpled the rifle stock disabled her hand wrist forearm caught her in the belly in the groin fabric would have to be picked out of her wounds

I didn’t think you’d shoot.

Ive always been quicker than you

                                     You think

I react

What were you thinking

    Wouldn’t you like to know. 

0808,  Saturday,  22  6. 24

Nancy Sinatra  Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEFa4ztm9P0

You heard that Putin and Kim Jong Un met in North Korea?

I did

         I was wondering where their buddy was

Buddy?

Comon Lets not be thick who else woud hang with those two monkeys

                                                                              Somebody missed a golden opportunity

Ooops did I do thaterribly sorry   Im sorry

Aah, yes. Xi.

Xi Jinping Jack Flash my apologises Stones

he laughed

            You say apologises?  As in you really meant it?

Apologises yes sorrys nope  yahear me say sorry I don mean it

shook his head

                 Code?

Sssshsecret Im sharing

he laughed abruptly strong

                               Man, you’re a piece of work.

Wait

         Wait for it

Waiting.

Putin

Yeah.

Kim

    Yeah.

Xi

      The Three Stooges    Thas the name of their new product line

Their new product line?what the hell are you talking about? I’m not following.

Putin Kimchi

             C H I not C H E E  South Koreans insist on C H E E but since itll be coming out of the North an China  C H I

Capichee

           Keepin on with the C H E E  However its also spelled C A P E E S H an C A P I S C E

You’re ridiculous.

I have my moments

                         An the label

Im thinking Putin Kim Xi carved in a cliff face Mount Rushmoresque  Yah

Christ.

1907,  day-between-2-Ts,  19  6. 24

1108,  Reggaefriday,  21  6. 24

Beatles  Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J9NpHKrKMw

    started to look around

I gotcha  Here

                glided a rolling secchair across the linoleum to him  Have a seat

Thank you.

             he sat

    Better

Yes. Thank you. Much better.

                                nestlednested  got himself comfortable  What were we talking about?

it was that shitexactly that shit that crucified himcomplete with the spear through the ribs

                                                                                                 Really       

You always have to say it like that?

Id rather not say it at all

                             Like ya have a fistful of change anya drop it anthen I gotta help you pick em up

You could let them lay.

No

      I coud not

You frankly  cant afford tha I do

                                      Synapses  Fire em woudya

sitting began as a joke

                          teased  he couldnt think on his feet

was getting that he couldnt think on his ass either

Cant fall back on mentation cerebration no mo

                                                Consider carefully  How is tha possible if you cant remember the course of our conversation

That’s on you.

Me  How me

You don breathe  Like your thoughts are in freefall

                                                       I worry sometimes you’ll forget to pull the ripcord.

AW  Thas sweet

                    No More like running water   Bathing under a waterfall

You try to make it sound attractive.

Im cogent Outline format man

                                 Intro A  One Two Three Four  Body Subject One One A One B  C  sometimes slipping in D One Two

You think you are. I’m with you when you begin then you go nonlinear and the wheels come off my ride.

                                                                                                             I appreciate intellection, the action, the process of understanding. But you bury me with its opposition, imagination. I can’t sort if you’re talking about a reality or imagining out loud. In plain sight, before my eyes, you go around a corner then suddenly you’re behind me and I’ve no fucking idea how you got there without me seeing you, understanding you.

Liquid  Thin viscosity

                       Fluidity  Following the path of least resistance

Anya offer none

Ive no choice but flow

Well.  I can’t dam ya.

Dam or damn

No N.

Ya followed

Was a simple proposition.

Coin toss

Yeah.

Before you drop em on the ground an need my help to picking em up

You keep saying.

I said so know Im askin

I don’t know. I couldn’t keep up.

Awright

           Scheme or scam

    Ah yes. Thereya go. I recall.

                                    Scam.  Diddle.  Cheat.  Swindle.  Deprive.

There  Tha wasnt hard

Easy for you to say.         

1559,  2sday,  18  4. 24

1519,  Reggaefriday – full Strawberry moon,  21  6. 24

Strawberry Alarm Clock  Unwind the Clock  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJvJgJTjPY

fatal fly

was taking a leak in the bathroom sink

bane of his existence

they had a bidet

but no urinal

fuckin urinal makes a ton of sense in California rather than pissing in the toilet and flushing or

                                                                                                    or letting it stand all day until someone has to take a shit

place begins to smell like an offmarket rural gasoline station

speaking of which

                    while pissing in the sink a huge black fly buzzed him a couple of times then parked its ass on the mirror over the basin

at his eyelevel

    Whell . . . Ill be damned  he said out loud

fly ignored him

Are you lookin at yourself

fly ignored him

                 was taking in its reflection       seemed mesmerised

You are lookin at yourself

he ran the water briefly sloshedrinsed the basin

fly ignored him

he quietly moved left to exitnot to disturb it

                                               Dude    Youre enamoured  Knock yourself out

shitsangiggles  looked inbout ten minutes later

                                                 love affair continued

he hoped it wasnt a Romeo Juliet thing

                                         didnt want to return and find it dead on its back legs curled upanin

selflove

           moral mortal flaw

1133,  Reggaefriday – Strawberry Full Moon,  21  6. 24

Elton John  Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REfKNbNndzo

she pouted

it was a good look on her

made him think what it might be like to be in her mouth  full lipsSTOP  a friend

                                                                                    a young friend

Whaya grumblinbout

Everything is so expensive. It wasn’t this expensive when you were younger.

No Though things are relative  I agree corporate greedAmerican  American corporate greed second to none is off the charts

         CEOs makin two hundred times the average worker

Obscene

I stopped for lunch today, dropped seventeen dollars for a burrito.

I hope the fuckin thing was as big as your head.

No.   No.

           Seventeen dollars.

Ive never had a seventeen dollar burrito

                                           Id pop if it was packed with pussy

Jesus.

Did I say tha out loud

she laughed despite herself

                               Did I say that? You’re hilarious.

Just sayin Id pay seventeen dollars for tha

You wanna buy mine . .

. . Wha are we talkinbout

she blushed hard

                   No nononono.  I ate half.

Eightfifty

What do you mean?

Half

Oh.

Helpin a girl out

No. Having it for dinner.

So it was large

Not large like you’re thinking, no.

So  If I may

What?

Ever occur to you to take tha seventeen dollars buy a loaf of bread lunchmeat condiment apples or grapes or raisins or bananas an makepack a lunch

    No.

          I wouldn’t do that.

Why

Not very cool.

No  Smart

             Budget expenses

There is that.

Not very enthusiastic kiddo

No.

       Not very.

2011,  day-between-2-Ts,  19  6. 24

1244,  Reggaefriday – Strawberry Full moon,  21  6. 24

Nonsense.

I disagree

              Even in nonsense theres sensehuh yacant deny tha

rocked his headit looked spastic

                                   You think you’re so clever.

No

    Not so not wha youre thinkin

What am I thinking?

Youre thinkin of the word itself  Im not

                                            Verse Writing   Theyre intended to amuse by virtue of absurd whimsical language Somuch bull bunk drivel poppycock twaddle

                                                            I like twaddle So near Pappyscock I think twat  You

Drivel dribble  bunk spunk  courage spirit semen  Of course for my purposes I mean semen creamycum cumbubbles cresting between lips either between legs or in the mouth

Bull cow  Lotsa nonsense goinon ifya can keep up

                                                           Whasay you

his rocking head slowedanstopped arrested  tilted   stilted

                                                                 What am I supposed make of that barrage?

    Thatheres some sense to nonsense albeit it fleeting

                                                           I keep a butterfly net near

OhJesus.

          

1426,  Thursday,  20  6. 24

1015,  Reggaefriday,  21  6. 24

Jefferson Airplane  White Rabbit  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4

when he wasnt looking he was jumped   victimised by his mind

                                                                     had turned his back

didnt suspect it

    should have known better

he knew when he took his hands from the wheel autosteering kicked in

                                                                           he was playing    only did it briefly

it wasnt that he wasnt confident it could

    but more confident he could 

                                      perhaps

overconfident

underestimated

knew better

              typically he overestimated his opponents

failing to understand he was an opponent

he left the lockkey too close to the cell

where theres a will theres a way

didnt see it coming

    pithed from within

Wednesday,  15  9. 04

1107,  Thursday,  20  6. 24

how words floundered evolved  found   his mired mind

                                                             was beyond him

he imagined himself an ironpost outpost

they were the horseshoes

                            wentwiders  leaners    ringers

pithyepithet

             adjective descriptive phrase expressing a qualitycharacteristic of the person thing mention Whynot

                                                                                                          dirty old men

epithet

evolved                                      

epitaph

         noun inscription on a headstone  theyre falling from favour

Ashes ashes we all fall down

                                fall from an urn

epitaph

evolved

really playing now

epithedtapped  e pithed tapped

                                  pithed tapped redundant  as lobotomy reveals

queerlookin word  epithedtapped

                                   but hewho liked it

an thats all that mattered to him

mattered

mothered

nattered

noneothered

neo new

ur original

nonured

inured

injured

wounded

wound

twistedwistfully

wrist

wrestled

          some might break your arm if they disagree with you U ewe ewer large jar wide mouth

skewer

skewed

screwed

scryer

scried

screed

shrieked

owl

Ohwell

        that ends well

   it wasnt his fault

                        hes the scriber the scribbler  

1129,  Thursday,  20  6. 24