Aby Warburg

                     Ever

he hadnt

twice in two days now

    why now

his picture atlas Bilderatlas begun in the final years of his life incomplete at his death 1929 represents the origins of modern Western art history

some found the work “symptomatic of his ‘crimes’”

art

crime

Yafuckin kiddin me

somebody would have to flesh out how art crime relate

                                                               or are even relatedNo

No

blew his mind

hed be a carnival barker

                            Ladies an gentlemen young ladies in particular Step right up step right up Only twentyfivecents a slim quarter Step right upstep right up an blow me

truly

      somebody try and knot tie a red ribbon bow around art and crime insist theyre similar either they or he would find themselves picking themselves up off a sawdust floor among tossed peanut shells

scent of tequila

                     that kind of bar is art 

  

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https://artreview.com/how-art-historian-aby-warburg-changed-the-way-we-see/

he called his Dad

                     talked       Ya don sound right

I’m alright

No

     You forget we spend an entire year talkin on the phone couple times a week before I see you again

Ya don sound right   Whasup

Nothing, son, really.

Bullshit

         Whas happened

    Fine. I fell.

Where

In the backyard.

On the grass

Yes. Yes.

No bruises no scrapes

None.  Hurt my pride more.

You trip

No. Like my leg failed.  Was up then down, pitched forward.

Didnt strike your face your head

No.

     As I said, more embarrassing than anything else.

Not shitting me

No.

      I’m fine.

You wearing a belt

laughed  Holds up my pants.

Metal buckle

Yes.

So you know wha happened

Happened?

Yah

No.

Mother Earth Gravity  Magnetic center

                                         A little reverence Dad  She hauled you down

Stop.

No really

I think not.

Youre not being reverent

Please, son.

Paw  Imagine ifya werent wearin a belt

If I wasn’t?

Correct

What?

Shedve pantsed ya Pants down around your ankles Neighbours  Ohmy

                                                                                Maybe called the cops for indecent exposure

Still wrappin your cock around your waist like an anaconda

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1355,  Saturday, 5  10. 24

Google makes things too easy

made a face What are you talking about? It’s what computers do.

Till the plugs pulled

Plugs pulled?

               Ya going off on that all things electric are marriedjoined a single wireline leads to a single plug stuck in a wall . . somewhere . remot . .

. . An gets cut yah

Never going to happen.

Brothers electricity was off for three days this summer hundred degrees Chicago lotsa old people died an were spoiling

If three daysgranted an exception  but is also a window

Take natural disaster Helene Plot against Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greenecheese in her head said  Think how long some of tha electricity is going to be out or if ever restored to some devastated parts of towns

Can happen

Too easy

So what are you doing to make things hard for yourself cause that’s what you do?

Use the dictionary to lookup words encyclopedia for historical facts

OhChrist, you slay me, really? You think of the time you’ll be wasting.

Forget the time we wasted  Ya kiddin me

That was then this is now.

I belong to the Fraternal Order of NeoLuddites no acronym

                                                              You forget about all the other words you find an read while lookinup the one  Its great fun

No thank you.

Howbout this

               I keep a New Oxford American Dictionary Second Edition on floor beside my left foot as I sit at the desk

Looked down

Saw a distinct split between pages

Slipped a bookmarker in it so not to lose the page when I picked it up

Is there a point to this?

Bear with me bear with me

Feels like you’re wasting my time.

This time is well spent

                         Set the dictionary in my lap opened it I wont quiz you on wha yamight think I opened to because you have the imagination of an illiterate miteopened it to pages threehunredninetyfour an five top left  cradle-robber opposite page top right  crave

Cradle-robber crave wha

Young women.

Ohgood youre not as dumb as you look

Didnt mean to step on your line

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1131,  Saturday,  5  10. 24

Use the pan on the stove

Which? she asked

Rear right

Alright. 

         Sheeswoof . . whahappened to that?

Tha

The pan.

    Ah  Tha

               Ever boil eggs for seven hours

Thaswha happened to tha

Seven hours? Might be awfully happy it’s an electric range.

Ecstatic

How’d that happen.

Was late was hungry thought softboiled eggs easily digestible putem on went to the bedroom on the nightstand was a book I thought I returned to the library glad I hadnt physics threw pillows against the wall read nodded out woke set the book aside turned out the light went to sleep

During an intermission break between dreams saw a simmering pot of boiled eggswoke  Tadum

Scorchedblack eggshells one explodedtossed a chalky crayonish yolk onto the range

The pan looks destroyed inside.

It functions

You’re not going to toss it?

No  Functions

Awfully unsightly inside.

Exactly

          Yet it functions       Functions best as a reminder

I anticipate since I caught a break Ill not ever do tha again

Like string tied around someone’s finger.

Precisely

Alright. I’ll reheat the chili in it for the dogs.

Ill slice tomato dice onions got pepperoncini celery salt side of Claussen spears potato salad homemade by moi bought pretzelbread rolls

We’re feasting!

We is we certainly is

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1036,  Saturday

It’s A Wonderful Life  Uncle Billy squirrel and string  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpMfp-SsRXg

Where’s my hat?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu2YEBCU76U

hes had it

there were 385,000 American deaths from Trumpvirus in 2020

                                                                   then there was January6 2021

then the next day was January6 the next day was January6 the next day January6

every day since

January6 insurrectionists shit in the Capitol

formers been shitting on American democracy every day since

1621, reggaefriday,  4 10. 24

Gottago errrans to run

Errands.

Errrans

Am I . are you . . . am I misunderstanding your pronunciation?

If you think Im saying errands yah

                                      Errrans  Made a mistake an now I gotta runem back

Had I not Id have no errands to run

How are you spelling it?

How woud you spell it

E  R  Rcorrect?

Yah

E R R . . . R?

An

. . R A N Sno D.

Perfect

        You can spellan before you say it isnt a wordcuz youre dyin to I just made it a word so it is

air went out of his perturbed tires out of his expression

                                                         You saw . .

. . Thacoming  Arya kiddin me

                                 Yaoughta exercise your liberties more oftenyoure stiff rigid  rules aint laws theyre meant to be broken

But they’re rules.

Too  fuckin   staid

                     Lemme lemming

pickedup his iPhone punched keys  Lookinup rule noun  punched a few more    Here we are  listenin

                                                                                                             rule  “one set of explicit or understood regulations or principles I disagree governing disagree conduct disagree within a particular particular particular activity or sphere I disagree”

It didn’t say particular three times.

I did

      I woud have preferred  within an anal activity or sphere give me a fuckin break   A rule is ought to be perceived as a nicety a courtesy an I find those who might typically  seems typical to me  cite rules  often clandestinely are breakinem have some farcical selfheld belief they are better than others their  shit don stink

It do

Were miles from errrans

                              I disgress

That was quite a definition, recital, diatribe.

Yare getting the hang of it

   Are you angry?

No

You sound angry.

You havent heard me angry

                              Decidedly a decisive difference   I do not deign

Had to  Ds

              Or dese

Dese?

In your coastal vernacular these

                                   Dese

Dem  Dere  Dose  Dese

                            Can take the boy out of the city but not the city outadaboy

Dig

I suppose I do.

                     I honor rules.

Of course you do Its made you who you are

What do you mean by that?

Wha I said

             Know the song with the lyric of Oh sweet mystery of life at last Ive found you

Naughty Marietta  Shes got a legup on you

                                                  Yaint ever been naughty

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlYGaPy3HJA 

what would he make of that

 

he woke used the bathroom walked into the kitchenwas probably the first time he had during the middle of the night during the time hed lived there fourteen years

the illuminated range clock

                             2:32 which was fine by him because the night before he didnt sleep well he went to bed after a cool shower not 9:00slept

woke again

his body hurting

got out of bed wentup the hall into the kitchen again

second time in fourteen years

tickled him

              6:16

was intrigued by the :16 and :32

returned to bed

despite pain he found a comfortableenough position that he fell back to sleep wondering of numerology

232 equaled 7

616 equaled 13 equaled 4

were 7 and 4 related

when he woke for good in the morning

for only the third time in fourteen years

he went to the kitchen again shits an giggles

third times a charm

power was out

no time showed on the range

                     THA  tickled him

  

was there a relationship between 7 and 4

Pythagoreans Riight whasa Pythagorean a follower of Pythagoras teaching and beliefs a Greek philosopher and mathematician

they believed particular numbers were invested with spiritual properties 

7 consists of the union of the physical 4 with the spiritual 3  7 means spirituality on a roll

obviously 4 was incorporated in 7

standalone  4 physical energetic knowledgeable clever confident can keep secrets are creative have sharp memory  rebellious sometimes overconfidentYah

    between the night the range perhaps  they suggestedurgedencouraged him to split differences

perhaps

if his assertiveness aggressiveness allowed him

                                                      ah Socrates  Know Thyself 

maxim inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi

past two nights 

piece of work

               pieces

he hoped the rest of the world that could slept like babies

reggaefriday,  4  10. 24

1009,  reggaefriday

sleep

                      he wasnt sure what that washe sleptdreamed twothree hours  woke  wouldnt open his eyesknew it was still dark  and let hypnopompic and hypnagogic fight a tug-of-war over him

bizarre

         though uncommonly delicious visuals                                                                                                   

when he gotup out of bed he couldnt say he was rested

                                                             couldnt say what he was

except

        entertained

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Arnyd  Lustrous  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur9gOu4WHEk

they gobbled sativa edibles 7.5mg poured some coffee his black bros with French Vanilla creamer   Cant do milk  

No.   went outside under shade trees to solve all the problems of the world discuss politics science an inevitablyexorbitantly bros high school Glory Days

CHRIST

         when he went off hed think Somebody shoot me

                                                                 Ive heard this before no brakes  evidently it was important he hear it again

when he finally ends  retold beautifully immaculately same details hed ask him  Why don’t you talk about high school?

Didnt care for it

                  I liked competing in sportsreally  really liked the nude showers said tha to fuck with him he was a bit of a homophobe although vehemently denied it  YOU ARE  he also forgot that the house he grewup in only had a bathtub  as teenager he was partial to showers  now typically he bathed than showered

Jesus. disdain Nude showers.

Jesus didnt shower

                      Suppose I was like Jesus until junior high

Please.

Would you slow down?

Cant keep up

No.

     You’re hard to follow.

Then say

           Wha didnt ya follow

All of it.

Jesus man Why didnt you interrupt earlier

I couldn’t think how.

Open your mouth  Transition too quick expositions are legit cogen . .

. . I couldn’t follo . .

. . Not like Im bleating Tourette whelps

                                         Introduced the next thingmaybe not twothree maybe twofourthree but even out of order theyre relatable

To you to you.

                Like Jack and Jill tumbling down the hill.

Id help you up Jill  help pushdown your skirt so youre not exposedembarrassed

I’m not Jill.

Actually no Jill would be able to keep up

                                           Nonetheless  Id help you push your skirt down so you werent too embarrassedexposed

his sigh said it all

Tellya wha

            Lets go inside shoot some pool  You can practise your geometry annot think about your poor sense of fashion

stood was walking to the door before bro could get a word out

felt bad

usually he let ladies go first

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a windingcurvy no-shoulder tree- brush-lined road coming down out of the hills after dark  wildlife aplenty

he should have left before dark

                                       knew betterWHA

called the police on his cell then AAA to tow  the vehicle was badly damagedhe was okay grateful he didnt have airbags

he explained to the officer

                            Appeared in front of me had virtually no time to react despite covering my brake

It . . jumped out?

No   As I said earlier

You didnt see it . . leave . run off?

    Run off  Yakiddin me

                                It appeared in the road disappeared from the road

Saw chrome yellow

Chrome yellow.

Know your fire hydrants

I do.

Shimmy up that embankment  Take a real good look at the one up there

                                                                              I did while waiting for you

Really?

    Take a good look

he picked up a painted piece of his vehicle

Take this with you

You want me to scale that embankment?

Investigation is part of your job I want yourexcuse me sumptuous report so Im not dancin goin roundanround with insurance Got out of the vehicle an called Everything is as was

the cop returned

                   I’ll be a sonofabitch. 

Crazy huh

Nuts.

         Whodathought?

So much for inanimate

I also took photos which Ill share with you

                                               Sawya scrap paint off it into an evidence envelope

I did. Compared ‘em.

                       I’ve no doubt.

Nor explanation

None.

Me neither

              Crazy

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https://www1.wsrb.com/blog/is-there-meaning-behind-the-color-of-a-fire-hydrant

    smutty

               reminds him of rummy

which he hasnt read since early Hemingway or heard since Humphrey Bogart called Walter Brennan one in To Have or Have Not

  

Ken Bruens character Jack Taylor reminded him referred to Ems – Emeralds – mother as a rummy

                                                                                                         sounds better than a drunk

rummy needs no discourse  selfevident    smutty follows in kind

                                                                     though hed question Whakind porn smutty

smut porn

   smut homophone BANG! POW! ZAP! Same Bat-time same Bat-channelSMUT!

where are Warhol Peter Max Roy Lichtenstein when he needs them

                                                                        what would they have done with the earnip a bullet gave cunt

thin threads of blood on his fat cheeks or   OR  the nonexistent second attempt

                                                                                     cant duck a punch not thrown

though difficult to representPOP art

                                       perhaps a coweringcringing crybaby

perhaps fluttering eyelids

                          FLINCH

left hand up openpalm protecting himself from a righthanded blow like a beat child

                                                                                       maybe like a beat dog who believes hes due

whaever

          would have been a treat

a simmering alkaline hydrolysis since he wasnt an alky

                                                             a rummy

full circle

0630,  2sday,  17  9. 24

1302,  day-between-2-Ts,  2  10. 23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30DSfAA0brs

Joe he said to himself   Im gonna missya when youre gone

he wasnt quite convinced he was going away with Joe when he died

                                                                           not a spook

but a spirit striking at the heart of people who really needed to be assertivetake no shit  confrontationalnot walked all over

     STOMP

anif they wouldnt

hed inhabit them

What came over you?

I . . I think . . . I think I was possessed.

    Possessed.

Yah.

About time.

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Survivor  Eye of the Tiger  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54B_fSXn7o8

he woke before she did

turning his head on the pillow he nearlyfainted at her profile

                                                                her untroubled brow magnificent Native nose hair sexmussed that they rode without a care into unconsciousness  sleep

the twisted sheet lay across her hips a leg stuck out

he gently turned onto his sidequietly slippeddown not to wake her scarcelynuzzled her breast laid his hand flat low on her belly  closed his eyes

napped hypnagogic   

 

 

she woke

               Baby.

startled No

            Ohno I didnt wake you did I

No.   No.

he looked over the round of her breast into her face

What’s wrong, love? A dream?

he nodded nuzzledkissed the side of her breast

                                                     Among dreams

she put her arm over his back took his shoulder in hand

    You dream

No, not that I remember.  she giggled

                                        I was pretty exhausted, boyo.

he laughed

              Me too

But you dreamed.

Theyre always waiting at the door for me

she smiled Christ how she could light the room  made him smile

                                                                  Want to say?

I do please

              he turned onto his belly up on his elbows kissed her nipple

she touched his cheek ran her fingers through his hair a fingertip gently at his temple

                                                                                           So.

    Immediately captured my attention the earth beneath us . .

. . Us?   

        Me?

Something huh

Yes.  Terribly rare.

Yah

      Why Im fixated

I didn’t mean to interrupt.

No  Okay

              The earth was formed like a waffle depressions units between them that separating them they were walkways prisonish   It felt contained unseen walls unseen ceiling definitely not outofdoors but because I couldnt make out the confinement  the atmosphere was similar to outdoors

There were punishments a lottery Not violent anya know how violent my dreams can be

she nodded

They   I hate they Unseen officials Punishment  It was an extraction of intelligenceI don know how they did itpeople yahstrangers  all strangers   returned to their depressionstheir units   docile

The lottery remanded people to the same extractionkennels . . .

Kennels?

The depressions

Ah.

Im thinking kennels nowwe had ours I could seelooking down from above onto the landscapethe depressions  We could move around inside them but coudnt leave them unless accompanied

Guards

           Why woud they do tha

The guards?

Yes

    To survive?

Thas always the excuse isnt it

Excuse.

         That’s raw.

Yes

     Punishment extractions lottery extractions  An when an individual was too dociletoo malleable   they were lead away

       his eyes began to shine 

 

Lead away?

Yah

         I saw from above  They were removed from their cells

 

And?

    And? 

Slaughtered

                Slaughtered for their flesh

OhJesus that’s a nightmare.

    A dream love   Just a dream

Nightmare.

Yes he nodded  For you

                              For you

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