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they worked on him for two hours
Come on man, work with us, gives us something.
finally
Calling it.
panicked
What?
We’re calling it. Time?
Time, uh looking up at the clock on the wall
tenfiftyeight
TEN Fiftyeight.
Thank you. Thank you. Make note of that please.
I’m going to call his wife.
Best you.
Why would you say that?
You met hertold her when she brought
him in that you didn’t knowyou’d do your best. We’d did our best.
I think, no I know, she’ll appreciate
hearing it from you.
From me.
Yes.
From me. You’re right.
Excuse me.
Marlene.
Yes.
This is Maurice.
Oh Maurice, yes.
Yes, ahh. I’m
afraid I have bad news.
heard her suck in her breath
Bad
news?
Yes. Bad news. I’m afraid we . we couldn’t . . .
No
her voice caught No.
I’m . I'm afraid . . . we couldn’t . help.
But you thought .
. her
voice broke
I did, I did.
I’ve not seen this before.
Marlene.
I believe he’s still in
the throes of his orgasmwe can’t get the crazed smile off his face. I recommend cremation . . to the open coffin and
burial we hoped.
I know you were
private people.
she
sobbed Yes.
We’re . . private people.
1625, Monday,
16 9. 24
2302, 2sday,
22 10. 24
Steve Miller Band The Joker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2uzhUWRsd0
22.10.24
Ex libris Latin From
the library the collection of
I know I know.
How did you get to
Traci Lords from there?
Hop skip an a jump
Comon
I told you you lose me a lot.
Youre not going to make me explain
I don’t know who Traci Lords is?
Cum On
Don’t come on me.
almost lost his shit
laughing so hard
Not funny, not funny. I’m feeling
like the butt of a joke.
I know ex libris.
Awright wiped tears from his eyes Awright
Hint
You want me to guess after laughing
at me?
Thaswha you do How many times have you You’ll never guess.d
me
An I don
An when I slipup an say Youll never
guess you start guessing
An never guess right
So no A hint is different than guessing
Are you getting sore?
No Im in awe of you Ill go to it
Ex libris You can spell it
I told you I know it.
Liberate the ex
What do you mean liberate the ex?
An X
An ex what?
I like tha too Annex the X
What?
Not ex X
The letter I hate explaining jokes
X.
Yes
Traci Lords is X?
And
An underaged X at tha
A porn star?
With sweet puffy nipples
Like pastries not pasties don cover them up Ohno
shaking
his head Jesus. The way you think.
I think I think
I think you grewup cloistered My deepest condolences
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You may be the wrong person to ask since youve spent the majority of your life here But when you werent living here did you find yourself homesick
Homesick.
I’d have to think on that to
be honest with you. You.
No
That’s abrupt.
No Not when you consider I left home two years
later than I wanted to ansince have only returned for brief visits antha my childhood home
was razed
Home
It is a negligible term
You’ve lived here twenty years.
Do you think of this as home?
No
he chuckled Im homeless
Wha about you
Homesick
I don’t know if I can say. I was
only gone a year.
I
can’t remember feeling homesick. Though I
may have been. I can’t remember.
he nodded
So what made you think to ask?
I was reading
I came across a
word fernweh spelled
F E R N W E H It attracted me German Farsickness Longing for unseen
places
To be
homesick for a place youve never been
A melancholic desire
See
I do.
That would be . . .
uncomfortable.
Yes Thank you
Not having been I
was curious looking for a perspective of being homesick
I don’t imagine I’ll be the only
person you ask.
No Im fascinated
An attractive
looking word
You’ll let me know?
Ill letya know
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1227, 2sday
E O T M.
Really
G K I T.
L O L
Woudya fuckin say whaya mean You know acronyms irritate me
I do. Why I do.
Abbreviations of any
kind frost your fanny.
Yah
C A.
No California I L Illinois M D Maryland or doctorhence confusion
Say whaya mean
Apparently frosting’s become a bug up your ass.
Damnright
No patience for nonsense
Come on man, the world turns on
acronyms, abbreviations, hashtags, you need onl . .
.
. You need only
Im not
playin
Either
say or Im walkin away
Christ.
E O T M. You know it, I’ve told you before.
Anwhy youd think Id keep useless
information in my head is beyond me
You
say I dump it immediately
Alright, alright. E O T M. East of the
Mississippi.
East of the Mississippi.
Ive no idea
Come on. he looked irritated Your friend, your buddy, has only been west of the Mississippi once so
we . .
.
. Mouse in your pocket Best not include me in your we
Then your friend and I . .
.
. Parlance between you
Your shorthand
I’m sure she’s shared . .
.
. With you
Lets add to your irritation
I believe E O T
M also means end of the month
See the confusion
See why I don play
Just being a pain in the ass.
No Lets drive a nail through its skull once an for all
Ever see an emoji in a text from me
No
Lastly
Whas G K I T just for
now Ill be forgetting it
God knows I try.
Ya don
Don goround pattin yourself on
the back or Ill call ya by your real name not your clever nickname
Anwe know wha a dealkiller tha is with the ladies
1410, Monday,
15 9. 24
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2sday, 22 10. 24
Tha lines crap You know tha right
Excuse me I dislike right
Despise it when its used on meRight Fuckno
Wrong
on defence jaw set lips wire thin I
don’t believe it’s a line.
No Who told you
Yatell me an Ill tell you You I
coud guess I bet Id be right
You’d bet? You’re not a betting
man.
Im not but Ive got a damngood idea
who laid tha on you
What’s your damn good idea?
Buckleup
Your mother
he
flinched didnt expect that Youah . you’re right.
How’dya know?
Got a mother too
Thas the line they were selling all mothers of our generation
Clothes make the man
Horseshit
I gotta wonder if they ever heard of an empty
suit
Dress
for success
The other If you look successful people will believe
you are
Horseshit
Success dresses any way they want
Suits How many suits do you own Have a tuxedo
A few suits.
Not a tuxedo.
Few Fews defined as a small number
How many
I’d
have to think about it.
Think
You’re kidding.
I think if it were a few itd be
at the top of your head Dark suit light
suit Not talkin sport jackets Ive got one of those
How many suits do you have?
Stallin
How many?
None Never have
If I were buried
familyd have to find a suit in a secondhand shop
How many
as he spoke he watched him play with his fingers
How many
I’m
thinking.
Youre counting
Yes.
I’ve eleven.
Eleven
Fashion maven
I don’tdidn’t . . . think so.
Not one suit?
No need Sport jacket sufficed
Weddings?
Jacket
Funerals Jacket
Graduations Jacket
I have plenty of ties though
1410, Monday,
15 9. 24
1010, 2sday,
22 10. 24
Z Z Top Sharp Dressed Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw
21.10.24
a fresh new word
heard it he couldnt
pronounce it asked the sayer if they could spell it
they looked at him asif he had
two heads
Im not shittin you When Im ignorant I admit it
she cleared her throat of course sayer was a she guys are densebecoming denser
Five
syllables ooh she was going to school
him School me
Au-to-poi-long e-ses. Autopoiesis.
Autopoiesis
Correct.
A system capable of producing
maintaining itself by creating its own parts.
Please tell me this is biology
not a computer
A cell, yes. A machine? Likely,
but not soon.
Promise
Who are you?
Joe thrusted
his hand out confident she would take it as someone who believes they are superior
always do
she took it Thank god knew how to shake Saoirse.
Oh Christ of course
you are
Again please he
held her hand after they shook
Its tha with a string of vowels
Again Ignorant Youre my first again please
Saoirse.
Pronounced first syllable sur
spelled S U R second syllable shuh spelled S H U H.
Sur shuh
Got it. Good for you.
May I have my
hand back?
Im a romantic Enjoy holding hands Taking long walks on beaches at sunset
laughed cracked himself up
Woud imagine thas how some
resumes posted on online dating apps appear
Wha a maroon
Be he or she but more likely he
May I buy you a drink after your clutch breaks up
I apologise I didnt mean to interlope intervene interrupt
Logophile
A what?
Arya kiddin
I am.
she laughed mouth unashamedly wideopen he dug that
deepthroated
I like you
Of course you do.
I’d enjoy a
drink afterwards. What you reading?you
come to a bar and read?
Make a mean Bloody Mary here Reading The Vegetarian Kang South Korean won
the Nobel Peace Prize for literature a week back
I didn’t know that.
Ignorant
Must suppose I am. chirped birdlike
An The Pornographer John McGahern
read a lot of The books Baldwins The Price of the Ticket Coates The Message
And the pad?
Clipboard paper pen
In case Im moved
Moved?
Taken
As you have
But more on tha later
Please Enjoy your friends
Maybe you’d like come and join us.
No
No thank you
she was taken back a bit obviously
Decisive.
Astute I am
Enjoy your friends please
Then a little later. Joe.
Yes Please Saoirse
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She told me I have too much
empathy, and sympathy.
Do I?
Crowdsourcing
No. Talking with people I trust isn’t
that.
Kinda is
I woud thinkbelieve believe you know without asking Confirmation
Maybe.
What do you think
I think I’m struggling, don’t
think, know, to understand the difference between them. There is a difference.
Yah
If they were the same theyd have the
same name Why we name things peoplewere
namers to distinguish betweenem
Okay. That was absolutely no help.
You want help
Lookem up in the dictionary
You are frustrating. her
frustration came on strong and clear through the telephone
I prefer maddenin More accurate
Awright But don take me at my word
Empathy is our ability to understand how someone feels
Sympathy is our relief not having
the same problems
You have my sympathy
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1035, Monday,
21 10. 24
Isnt this kinda weird
his brother standing beside him
arms loose hands crossed at his groin turned his head he was already looking at him
looked him in the eyes
Is it anymore weird than standing in Sula at the cemetery above the
confluence of the two valleys where Lewis and Clark first entered what would
become known as Montana where you intend to have your ashes scattered?
Yes
Why yes? That’s to be your
resting place.
Ashes don rest Scattered Ill be as close to the earth as I coudever
be playing in the sun an moon wind an
rain among wildflowers grasses weeds harassing insects an ants until I dissolve
Am absorbed
You wont be Not entombed here
he stirred the grass with his toe at the foot of what would be his
brothers grave someday
inevitably
I don't know that.
his brother walked across his
grave taboo once he was buried
he
laughed
shivered
farcically Ooooh felt like someone just walked
across my grave.
Christ
Seriously
Brother, I don’t think we’ve ever
been serious except for wakes and funerals.
Have we? I didn’t know?
No
No Cant say tha I remember a timeNo The night before I got married and you took
me to bed held me in your arms said You
love her. Relax. A whole new world for you today. You chuckled
A whole new adventure.
Then you kissed the back of my
head said Go to sleep.
An I did
I don’t remember that.
he
chuckled
reminiscing early
this AM before falling asleep, Monday, 21 10.
24
0927, Monday
20.10.24
he loved holes
his grandmother
mentioned to him he
loved dinosaurs Did you know there may be dinosaur
bones buried in the backyard?
NO
Yes.
Did you want to look?
Do I
Shovel’s downstairs in the basement.
Where do you think in the backyard
Gramma
Beside the garage, near the
alley.
that was where they planted a
small garden
he went nuts
was either was coming away
with a bone or a Chinaman
Joe! Time to come in, wash up, time for dinner.
No no, fill in the hole. You can try again tomorrow.
he tried every day for weeks on end
his grandmother finally stopped
him
she was beginning to
believe he wasnt bright
a rabbit hole
shibboleth sent him down it
he kinda had an idea but went to the dictionary to
confirm custom or principle or belief
distinguishing a particular class or group of people
he thought catchwords passwords
codes vocabularies used by professionals doctors attorneys dominatrixes tricks
shibboleth lead him to Homer
struggling with hapax hegomena
what the fuck
hapax once
hegomen being said
a
word or term that appears only once within a document or corpus
he saw Be still my beating heart he said out loud Honorificabilitudinitatibus from Shakespeares Loves Labor Lost
the state of being able to achieve honours
it did nothowever better supercalifragilisticexpialidocious extraordinarily good wonderful letterwise
Shakespeare also volleyed
outvenoms to surpass in venomousness and
pajock savage degenerate or peacockHmm
holes
loved to find them loved to find
what was in them
early October, ’24
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Mary Poppins Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rihNRTTcztQ
cant help myself
The
Four Tops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3bksUSPB4c
rocked
listenin to radio
it plays Zeppelin Your Time is Going
to Come https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cvEVivHVsU
Sorry boys youd
be on my side had to dedicate your awesome song
to the forever former
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