15.10.24

looked at the travel alarm on the brushedoff gnawedwood upended horse trough he utilised as a nightstand
                                                                                                                   Shit
leftie hoppedup on the bed nuzzled him between his blanketed legs
                                                                        Awbabe sorry  Runnin late no love-in this morning
her routine pouncewake him
                                petscratched her a good fifteentwenty minutes before she collapses  or he does
they snoozenap
                  then wake  face the day


Apologise  Runnin behind

I run behind. You’re checked his wristwatch three minutes late of the time you said, but you’re early. Always.

Early bird catches the strippers coming home from work

    That’s not a saying is it?

No idea Benefitted me
                         Fed a few exhausted hungry Miami girls

You shitting me?

No

You’re shitting me.

Not

That never would have occurred to me.

Lots don occur to you
                        I try to maximise opportunity  Requires but a little thought
I think a lot
 
Apparently.
                And?

Im a gentleman
                  Refuse lockerroom lies an such gibberish

0650,  2sday,  1  10. 24
1500,  2sday,  15  10. 24

Same ol same old bullshit  No

You love to read. Think of all the books you could read.

    I read for pleasure

If you could read faste . .
. . I woudnt

    You could read everything you wanted to.

No
     Analogy

Can’t wait to hear your excuse.
Reason
             I read literature  Literature is not sport
If I had a palate ancoud enjoy a fine Frenchenjoy any fine cuisine
                                                                       Why the fuck woud I rush through the meal
Wha pleasure woud thabe

I’m not saying literature.

Thaswha I read

Not all of it. I know you read noir, read other kinds of novels, books.

Yes
     Why rush through them  Just to ingestem asif they were some kind of meal at greasy spoonHell even greasy spoon offerings are worth savouring

You’re being contrary. You realise how many books you’ll leave on the table unread when you die.

More than you know more than you know
                                             Which is why I havent time for the frivolity you an your friend want to drag me into
I havent time
Better things to do

Better things. Fuckin antisocial.

A word for it  Another introverted
                                    Also     Im busy
Knock yourselves out

Jesus. You’re really missing ou . .
. . According to you
                     Gotta miss somethin to make another thing

1515,  day-between-2-Ts,  2  10. 24
1309,  2sday,  15  10. 24
Beatles  Paperback Writer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZCViOokEY

Awcome on Christ  Donbe so ridiculous
                                          Despite it lookin awfullygood on ya
I’m not, I’m telling ya, man . .
. . Don tell me
                 Whiney

I eat three meals a day . .
. . Snack between
                   Havent met a bowl of ice cream you didnt likewoudnt eat
Fuckin ridiculous

I’m not you.

No Ive been doin it twenty years
                                   You think food I think fuel  Really need to put more gas in a full tank
Unnecessary  Habitchual

    What?

Heard me
           Youre bitched by food

And you’re the only person I know who does what you do.

Anyare the only person I know who has ever ever compared   evenkeeled chicken bouillon with filet mignon

Because the medication to cleanse my gut for the colonoscopy allowed me to ingest chicken broth.

No comparison
                 You werent high either
No.
     I  was  starvin.

You werent
I was.

You are addicted  to food
                            Horrible Too bad its not addressed in this country around the world Perhaps if it were then places where people are actually starving coud eat
Money saved coud afford them tha

People wouldn’t. If I saved money on not eating as much I’d spend it elsewher . .
. . On you
             On you

    Ill be by around ninethirty to get you over to the clinic

No more equatin soup an filet
                               Yado Ill say so Ill embarrass you before perfect strangers See this clown here he said . . .

before 3PM,  day-between-2-Ts,  2  10. 24
1230,  2sday,  15  10. 24

. . . ody in a topless bar . .
. . Hold it.
               What?
Wha

What did you just say?

    Werent listenin

I was, maybe, halfwas, what did you say?


Are you listenin now

cleared his throat  I am.

I said a headless body in a topless bar
                                           Not mine  I read it somewhere

Where would you read something like that?

Somewhere
              I read so much its hard to keep track but honestly   youll forget I said but youll remember a headless body in a topless bar

I believe I will.
Know it


Since were doubling back
                               Something you said doubling back on a confrontation youve related to me twice prior I didnt have to hear it again but you insisted
Something clicked
Like a locks tumblers aligning

Lock unlocked

    Lock unlocked
                     Sounds fascinating

Donbe too fascinated I doubt youll appreciate my observation

Regarding?

Your rare stories

Mine?
See
        Youre surprised
I’m not.
You are
          Your repetitive storied glory days don count  When you begin one again I can halflisten I knowem by heart

Im referring to your rare stories
                                  Which you also repeathowever  infrequently   over the years

he tilted his head like a bird  Well . . . you have my attention.

I imagine I do Theyre your stories Im only concluding with my observation

nodding  Okay

The first happened in court  You said tenfifteen years ago
                                                               A welldressed Hispanic man you said immaculately groomed . .
. . I remember. Yes. I remember, I can see him now.

Good
       You said you spoke with himconversed ten minutes  in the hall outside the court room before he excused himself walked away

Yes. I recall.
               You listen well.

Youre tellin a story

                            Then

What?

Court room bailiff opens the door to let everyone inside for jury selection

Yes.

Then

Turns out the well-dressed . .
. . Immaculately groomed

    He was.
               He was the defendant in a child pornography case.

You did not serve on the jury

I did not. tilted his head like a bird again   What’s this about?

Im rerelating
                About six months ago


About six months ago.

You had a confrontationexcuse me you confronted him a young man leaning against a wall holding his bike before him

Yes.

Because he kept calling you a sexual pervert

No.

Correct
         Hey, man, yeah you man, hey, hey, you’re a sexual predator.
Predator not pervert

Yes.
     He kept yelling at me, people were aroun . .
. . So you walked up to himwalked by your words fiftysixty feet up to him to someone you described as disturbed was probably on drugswasnt well kept

I did

You confronted him because fiftysixty feet away you couldnt tell he was messed up

He was yelling directly at me.
Calling you a sexual predator
Yeah.
         You would hav . .
. . I woudnt have
                    Idve laughed not paid him no mind
Bullshit, that’s bullshit. You’re by far more aggressive than I am.

Not regardin an eejit
                       Obviously to anyone walkinround hearin his mouth it was apparent he was troubledyah

I’d sa . .
. . Yet you walked over to him

I’m not having anyone calling me tha . .
. . Sexual predator
That.

Whadidya intend to do   Hitem

    No. No.  Tell him to shut his mouth.

Coudve done tha fiftysixty feet away or coudve looked over your shoulder beyond you shrugged walked off   Paid no attention to his brayin . .
. . He was yelling at me.

Yathink you may have confirmed his accusation

What?

Why approach
                 If someone calls me by name I don recognise em I don respond toim

I couldn’t help myself.

    My observation

Your observation?

All irritated
             Forgot I began this in regards to my observation

I did not.

Little heated
               Yadid


I’m heatedyeah.
                  What’s your observation?

he chuckled was ticklin himself  he couldnt help himself
                                                        Think maybe the alleged child pornographer the eejit screamin on the street recognised something about you

What?

he laughed hard
                      was so pleased with himself

before 3PM,  day-between-2-Ts,  2  10. 24
1104,  2sday,  15  10. 24

14.10.24

Obstinate  No brainer
                         Though not necessarily better than anal    Ifya catch my drift

Are you trying to put me off?
Which

What do you mean?

Puts you off
               Obstinacy or anal

Christ. You obsessed?

Obsessions better than milquetoast
                                         Care to chime in
Not when you’re running at the mouth.
Awcomon
           If it were a coin toss Id call obsessionyou
Would you . .
. . Stop
       No  Callinya out    Wha

It’s an impossible call . .
. . It isnt
           It is  descriptive
Impossible.

Ya donwanna say
                        Ill call for youobsession
If not  we woudnt be friends

We’re frien . .
. . We were closer than tha  Closer
                                     Though not thawoud stop me from addressing some Dick or Jane off the street bondage word chain
Why ya flinch is beyond me

It’s obvious.

Its three words

It’s provocativ . .
. . It is  Know me not to be
                               Possibly incitement hopefully excitement
Throw in with me

I can’t.

When we met an dated you werent a prude
                                                I didnt date prudes
You weren’t as outlandis . .
. . I was
             I was  I was refreshing to you
Like jumping into a cold river

    You just didnt like jumpin into cold water all the time


No.
        Comfort’s not your forte.

No
    Comfort breeds contentment Breeds conformity  Breeds strictures  Is not supple is not agile
                                                                                                       Locks the chain gate
Another  Less provocative    Kind of bondage

   Word


Are you pleased with yourself?

I am
      Yawoudnt have arrived here without me
Though I remember a sweet timeseveral sweet times   you preceded me
                                                                                 Whereya go I miss youI miss  tha

I couldn’t keep up.

No
     Yawoudnt flow

1300,  Sunday,  29  9. 24
1342,  Monday,  14  10. 24

astute unasked questions of MAGA
                                       Why
  
question beefy MAGA women he woudnt fuckem
                                                   Trumps Supreme lackeys overturned precedent  overturned Roe
Youre coolwoud carry to term your rapists baby
question MAGA men
                      Youre cool your wife girlfriend sister mother birth their rapists child

JUST FUCKIN  ASKIN

    why arent these questions asked pointblank

1702,  Monday,  14  10. 24

. . . in the room, a vitrine.

Rum
         I know wha a vitrine is

    You’re confusing me.

You confused me  Rum

Room.

Wha I said
             Whereya from

Louisiana.

Thereya have it Accent  Certain words
                                          Yasaid room I heard rum  The accent
We agree vitrine is a glass showcase cabinet to display objects arranged in vignettes  Fine wares   Taxonomically

I wouldn’t say that.
                        But yes.
Was being thorough
I do tha

    Where are you from?

Chicago

Yes.

Havin an epiphany

The accent.

Howso

Rum. Chicawgo.

Thas howya say it

As I did. As did I.

    Wheres an alien whenya need one
                                             Just like a cop
                    
338preferred,  reggaefriday,  11  10. 24
2050,  Saturday,  12  10. 24
1154,  Monday,  14  10. 24

. . . cognisable
                 liked the word

You mean like, cognoscible?

I don know whatha is

Similar, they’re synonyms, adjectives, though cognizable is more familiar, better-known.

I wasnt familiar

Look at you, now you know. Nice one to have on hand, in your pocket, in a pinch.

Capable of being known
                                This a pinch

I suppose it must have been, yes.

Incognisable  Incognoscible

Obviously.

Yes Although likely more sides to it than a simple coin toss   Faceted

I’d agree.

I concur

she laughed You do like to concur.
I love concurring

Which is usually a stretch, contrary as you are, when someone converses, discusses . .
. . Argues

    I wasn’t going there.

How coudya not
                    We were arguing
An heeled with concur
Friends

sighed  You’re hard to be a friend with.

If everything has to make sense  Is cognisable cognoscible
                                                                   Yes
Box it up

Im not keen on containment


Though you understand bounds, boundaries.

I understand they are not impervious there are minute spiracles reeds to breathe air through while submerged  immersed  Deepdeep in the weeds
Cant see the forest for the trees
Forest is there

Birdseye view

    That’s too convoluted for me.    Granular.

Youre linear
                Thad kill me

Absurd has its place

And you always set a place for it at the dinner table.

Yah  The worlds a banquet
                                  I eat it with my hands
      
1605,  reggaefriday,  11  10. 24
1121,  Monday,  14  10. 24

photographs

    common  everyday  photos     snapped unposed
                                                          arresting a moment in time
I remember.


I remember
            You remember all the excitementthe glee  Everyone  so happyelated
Woudya look at those smileseveryone  smiling

                                                   then

looking at them now  grateful
very grateful
              but the elation  dulled    blunted

several of his photographs  most everyone in them     are dead
                                                                     missed terribly
goofy grins  smiles     postures
                                         he cant escapecant
heal his heart


bane of a huge family  fourteen aunts and uncles seventythree first cousins living within two hours of each other
    Grandmother  true matriarch     their bond

soon
         in all his photographs
nobody
          will know who these people were

strangers



You remember

I remember.
             unloading trash at the dump a wind came up  like tumbling leaves at their boots pantlegs hundreds hundreds of photographs

he looked at several

    everyone snapped  a stranger

been going on since early last week
0944,  Monday,  14  10. 24

13.10.24


    Id   Hold off        Id   Dammit

Youd
Yah

    Youd wha
Youve danced around this before
                                     Youve said  Whas the holdup

Youre right

               Id Neanderthal her

Tha wasnt hard

No
       But yathink tha maybe tha was held against them in the day

In the day
              Homo sapiens

Yah
      I love reading tha H sapiens excused  openanclose the quotes  outcompeted Neanderthals  Usually concludes openanclose the quotes  ultimately leading to the latters demise        
I don buy it
              Neanderthal holocaust

Why would you project infer posit  holocaust

Wha human species remains

You know

I do
     I asked

Homo sapiens

Take a good look around Historically
                                        Wha do Homo sapiens do exceedingly well
I know where youre going

    Go there

They are significantly adapted to wiping out their kind
Their kind
           Their not kind  Neanderthals   Denisovans
Conjecture

Historical experience
                       Stir in religion
Cocksuckers
              We     WE

Excel at murder mass murder

Ive no doubt there was a primitive holocaust thas been refined refined refined over time tens of thousands of years

    Practise makes perfect

after 1630assuredly,  Saturday,  28  9. 24
1639,  Sunday,  13  10. 24

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/18/where-did-other-human-species-go-vanished-ancestors-homo-sapiens-neanderthals-denisovans

Steel Pulse  African Holocaust  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id7tbqRNbsM

trick or treat

of course he did


had to look it up tit online
                            that afternoon the trees overhead were thrilled with bushtit and titmouse mice?plural  dictionary confirmed that either titmouses or titmice is appropriate

endedup that tit went a bit furthur found an article What Do Blue Tits Symbolise?
                                                                                        funny it should ask


he was at Black Ram a haunt of his for Halloween its been a favourite holiday until a good friend a good nemesis  died on Halloween
                     since
its spice frivolity  has eroded

however
           fifteen years prior he experienced blue tits symbolised   he was fond hed have to think that through

he was dressed in a rosybeige soft ribbed cotton bathrobe dago-T shorts beneath wore sandals  was The Dude
The Big Lebowski 

a year earlier Twelveohone Day of the Dead he decided to pull out all stops to be Dude

grew his hair the whole year his beard six month fashioned the goatee a week earlier to have proper stumble attending it

he couldnt buy a White Russian for his life

sat at the bar one in his hand  a second waiting

Ben the barkeep told him he had a few more waiting in the wings


    in through the front door Smurfette powderblue skinGADS rolled in how she moved her hips wore a loose white smock buttoned belted at the waist
she was by herself 

the comicbook or cartoon character would have been envious that Smurfette was unsexual

she crossed the bar walking directly towards him almost had to pinch himself
                                                                                Dude. I’ve been in an out of bars looking for you.

he squintedpeered into the disguise
                                         Hayley
Yes.

Blonde wig threw me didnt recognise you
                                               her hair is ravenblack
she laughedseemed in a rare mood
                                      I came, lemme buy you a Whit . .
. . Lemme let you have one of mine
                                     Im up to my eyeballs inem
Really?
Really
         he motioned to Ben pointed to Hayley When you have time Ben please

Nice to see you again. she kissed him on the cheek left a cherryred lipstick print
                                                                                     Trick or Treat!
Happy you asked I have either or

Aren’t you supposed to ask me to do a trick before I get a treat?

If it werent so confined I woud Suppose this way I can choose

Ben interrupted Pardon me. set the Russians down  Three in the wings, Dude.

Thanks Ben This is . .
. . Smurfette would be jealous. shook her hand  Gotta go.

he handed her a glass held his clicked glasses in unison  Happy Halloween sipped

Confined Ill choose
                      An given your extraordinary effort . .
. . You have no idea.
Hmm
       Given your extraordinary effort this evenin . .
. . Only reason I’m out, dressed up, is because I was looking for you.

Only reason

she giggled
              Can’t you see I’m unsmudged.
I noted

she pursed her lips
                     You could have said.
Yatook my breath away

Good. Good. That was my intentionOh . the corner booth opened can we take it?

he spun on his stooldismounted helped her down lead the way excusing himself as he moved with authority between sotted characters creatures monsters oddball animals Victorias Secret angels Fuck lotsa flesh admittedly  incentivised

Hereya go

Hayley tucked herself into the corner almost out of view of bar

    Given your unsmudged I think your earned a trick an a treat

We think alike, Joe.

We have

going to both pockets of his robe at once he shifted around  smiled
                                                                       Get double barrels holdout your hands
her palms werent blue

in her right he laid Trick in her left Treat
                                           Trick was a postdated cheque for 0.69  written Sixtynine cents exactly  Treat he copiedtraced it off the television screen off the still frame of the sketch Jackie Treehorn made while talking on the phone that when hanging up excusing himself Jackie tore the sheet from the pad pocketed it

Dude used a pencil to shade the impression of the sketch

Hayley shook her blonde head
                                  Such a funny guy.
I thought clever Hows your drink

Getting there.

Well you get there an hopefully Ill be back by the time your there

he was stopped twice on the way to the barthey had to buy him a White Russian

Ben served him two There’s four in wait, Dude.
Jesus

You said it, I haven’t made this many drinks ever.

I havent drank as many
                          Good thing I have help
A knockout, she’s a knockout.

She is We were an item for a hot minute

Looks like she could turn you to ash.

Justabout just  about

Gotta go, Dude.


returning to the booth he excused himself Pardon me fellas two were chattingup Hayley he sat on the bench beside her

they peeled off

In the nick of time.

Pester you

OhHell no. Finished my drink.
                                they laughed with zeal heads back thought they were pretty clever
clinked glasses
                 he Heres looking at you kid she Of all the gin joints, in all towns, in all the world, he’s sitting in his with me.
My goodness
                 Well done Hayley

I have my moments.

they drank deeply wore heavy cream moustaches
                                                      leaning forwardchuckled You’re a mess. she kissed him deeply
no more moustaches

Hayley slid back into the corner

he slid beside her tight

    Now.
           Earlier I said we think alike.
Yadid
       But sometimes yah sometimes nah

Sometimes yah now.

Yah Awright

Your turn, trick or treat. You can choose one . the other . . . or likewise . both.

I can have both

You could.

I try hard not to be greed

Sound words to live by.

she shifted on her hip to face him finishing the last of her drink took an ice cube in her mouth leaned forward kissed him passed it to him giggled as she leaned back
                                                humouredshaking his head he sucked the ice cube 

Smurfette cornered again  unbuttoned her smock

barebreasted
               written in deeper blue arched above her aureoles TRICK  TREAT

    she caught her breathbelly laughed
                                          You pig.

it is impolite to speak with your mouth and hands full

531PM,  Saturday,  28  9. 24
1324,  Sunday,  13  10. 24

Big Lebowski sketch  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M0Bhk5i1lM

Bogart  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWshjny1TTc