Remember scratch

   Scratch.       Scratch?  Could you provide more context?

Sure

      Ive not used it in years It was terribly fun it appeared  Back to back dreams     Money  Cash

Ohsure of course.

Kindafun huh

 

Ohmy.  Scratch.  she laughed

                                   Almost feels like scratch coming off my tongue.

True

      I remember my Maw dressin people down You can go scratch your ass.

I loved it

How was it you said?

Cindi asked me to buy her some fries patted my pockets  No scratch babe  She laughedknew I disliked carrying money

Went into her purse handed me some bills 

                                             Next I was telling my Dad about a porkchop recipe Cindi shared with me He was all about itsaid hed like to try it I looked about he had everything but porkchops Told him He said go pick some up Happy to Dad  again to my pocketspatted No scratch Dad   Son  man has always called me son  you really ought to carry some cash. I told him when homeless try to shake me down as Hare Krishna did on the el or a bus I can be honest

Sorry I don carry cash

Their incredulityconfidence I was lying   was wonderful    Breathtaking

                                                                                Skated on by without missing a step

Terribly humoured

Any idea why it occurred to you?

 

Yes I believe so

                    Remember  drop a dime

OhmyGod. You a freakin time traveler?

Seems

         A payphone cost a dime to make a local call

Wasnt the same when it jumped to a quarter drop a quarter

                                                                Absolutely colourless  Fuckin inert

That’s something else.  Thanks for reminding me.

Read it in a book earlier in the week

                                        Use it on someone  Take in their expression

I used it on a twentysomething cashier at the grocers                             

He was fuckin inert Like I hadnt spoken English

   He did manage Whatever.

1856,  reggaefriday,  31  1. 25

1333,  Saturday,  1  FEBRUARY ‘25

Rolling off her lying beside her she says to you  Not bad rookie

                                                                      Whadaya do

What do I do?

BLAHshit out of luck not another at bat

                                              Excommunicated

Excommunicated?

No more holey for you Phew-oh shes probably thinkin her red hair didnt make you think Irish  no patience of a saint there brother

What are you talkin’ about?

You were thrilled being called rookie

                                        Im elaborating becuz you havent an elaboratinbone in your body I wonder how you stand upright

What are you talking about? beginning to glare

Save tha for someone you think yacan intimidate

                                                    GO elaborate finesse   Im all ears

Damnnear fuckin beggin GO

glare went flat

               flatcoloured rotting green vegetables  fronds    lettuce

Thas wha I thought

                      She rolls out of bedgrabs her clothing panties bra  dresses outside in the parking lot next to her car

Shell douche when she gets home

                                     Last thing she wants is you siring someone unenthusiastic

Wants something unlike her family

late afternoon,  Wednesday,  22  1. 25

1715,  reggaefriday,  31  1. 25

never failed

                 shy

shed jumpup onto the desktop hang a second spy his lap jumpdown to the floor

he felt a part of some kind of apparatusobstacle in her course

bomber jumpedup big orange bomber  he worked his way down onto his lap  hung for awhile

october skittish as was if she jumpedup she made immediately for his lap

                                                                               for awhile

shy ran the gamut maybe every fourthfifth visit make his lap

                                                                  but by the time she did

Excuse me baby Gotta tap a kidney

                                       changed it up Time to take a leak

she was not amused

Don gimme a puss puss ya coud have earlier Youve lousy timing

he turned in his chairshed leap race into the hall usually went right to the bedroom

                                                                                        he imagined her punching a pillow

working her frustration out

he hollered after her Bad timing kid

curiously

evenings

bedtime

went cat to cat to say good nightif he could find them

then some time during the night shed come to bed head on his chesthis heart

                                                                                  while not having to take a leak

he still movedmoved a lot

off his back to a shoulder

off a shoulder to his back

off his back to the other shoulder

                                   while disturbing her sleep shed let him work it out

let him find his placeposture arm placement  hands

simmer down

                then shed find a bodily nockcranny that appealed

fall back to sleep

   a nocturnal dance

1331,  reggaefriday,  31  1. 25

di Meola  McLaughlin  DeLuca  Guardian Angel  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qssYRJy10

You got to be kiddin’ me, Papa.

   Whastha

               he lookedup from the laundry they were folding so they could get out of Dodge grab a bit to eat

he was hungry  

lunch a rarity

Your tshirts.

Wha about em

Kinda shabby. Don’t you think it’s time for new ones?

Fuckno theyre finally broke in

   Broke in?

Yah

They’re fraying.

Frayin broke in same difference

she shook her head

Its not like theyre Jockeys

Jockeys?

Briefs

Briefs?  You wanna explain the possible difference.

he tried to be patience

                         If frayed  Jockeys    Balls an cock find the fraysthe holes

Uncomfortable  Pitchem

But not tshirts

You have newer ones?

I do

You’re visiting.

I am

I would have thought you’d pack them.

   Because I knew this conversation was gonna to happen

                                                                 Vacation baby I dress for comfort

I don have to impress you

No.

        But I have a sneakin’ suspicion you don’t dress to impress.

he chuckled

              You know me so well

Suit doesnt make a man

The man the suit

Its whas inside tha counts

                             Not the wrapper

she sighed Is this yet another life lesson you’re teaching me?

Im obliged

              Im your really fuckin comfortable father

Tossem here Ill foldem

No no no, that’s okay, I’m cool.

You really find women who are cool?

Have

       Havent looked recently

Hard to compete with my imagination

 

she gave him a hard look

                            I don’t want to know.

afternoon,  Wednesday,  22  1. 25

1317,  reggaefriday,  31  1. 25

It was cool, they told me nice one, rookie. he smiled as if a child  someone playfully tousling his hair  That made me feel awfully good.

                  absently tugged the brim of his baseball cap

which irritated him

                     they were inside rookies house waiting for coffee to finish percolating etiquette informed him hats arent worn inside  experience told him assholes wore baseball caps

                                                                          he was struggling like a motherfucker to make an allowance

never got one growingup

Rookie

          Werent you twentysomething early twenties

Twentytwo. Semi-pro team.

It wasnt a major league farm club

No. Semi-pro.

What was semi about it

People paid admission to see the game.

Seated on wood bleachers

Yeah.

Yah I know the club

                        Diamond in the public park near the natatorium  I swam laps there

Yes.   That’s it.

Parked near the diamond watched half innings through the fence

                                                                      Thas the semi youre talkin about

Yeah.

I didnt realise admission was charged

It was nominal.

   You paid

No. a little discomfort crept into his eyes

Awright

   What do you mean . . alright?

Semi-pro

The admission paid for the maintenance upkeep of the field.

It was a community field correct

No.

High schools played tourneys there

Yes.

Community didnt budget for the field

I’m sure it did. I had to tryout for the team.

Start     

   No.

Older guys call you rookie

They were older, yeah.

How long were they semi-pros   Any in their thirties

sheepish A couple.

They starters

They were.

he was thinking pro-vanity

                              didnt say

These guys were good ballplayers.

Local ballplayers

                     Homegrown

throwing him a bone

                       Populous

It is.

good sheepish evaporating

                               he nodded agreement

Had to be nice to be called rookie

Play many seasons

One summer.

Then rookie was apt

I suppose you could say so.

he had

I gotta share

What’s that?

You said rookie an my imagination went to bedding a woman for the first time

Of course you did.

Rolling off her lying beside her she says Not bad rookie

Jesus.

Not Jesus fuckno

                   You take another at bat  A Bs are a statisticyah

didnt tug his brim

I think coffees ready   

afternoon,  Wednesday,  22  1. 25

1221,  reggaefriday,  31  1. 25

Trouble with you

                   Ya view everything  through the lens of being a human being asif shyster humankind is the be all

end all

Aint

I understand what you’re saying.

Ya don

         Yare tossinround Armageddon  Apocalypse

Call it wha itll be  Extinction

Hard  an fast

                 Well not be missed

You miss all the plant animal species tha have gone extinctGONE MISSING in our lifetimes

I cant

       Knowin woud break my heart

Were not interested

                       Just as long as we  keep movin forward

To wha

          Thus

Mankind croakin  shippin off to parts unknown  Doesnt trouble me in the slightest

                                                                                        Considerin how many species weve sent packin

HEY Whenya get there don forget to send a postcard

Cool  Im a fan

I understand what you’re saying.

Ya don

         You hang your hat on our species  Our deadly virus

Matrix got it right

Wha do you give us

Id guess some children born today will witness The End

                                                               Ill give it a hunred years If tha

Sorry bastards

Wha are their parents thinkin

Social security

  Not even human security

That’s a pretty shitty surmise.

All ears

           Tell me bout your yellowsunny optimism

Im a fan of scifi

I believe we’re better than that.

   Id bet

           But well not be here

I woudnt be able to collect

afternoon,  Wednesday,  29  1. 25

2332,  Thursday,  30  1. 25

https://ourworldindata.org/2024-living-planet-index#:~:text=The%20headline%20is%20a%2073,are%20often%20misunderstood%20or%20misreported.

Matrix  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5foZIKuEWQ

. . . yes me

               Otherwise you

Im not a butterfly   Gadfly

Gadfly.

         outrage?please

Precisely now

                  Gadfly  Wha  Not a blowfly fruitfly  Biology  Years  Drosophilia melanogaster  Mélange mixturemedley keeps me hangin on  Its scientific name tickledtickles me

   Restating so I havent submergedsuppressed your thoughtprocess

                                                                           Gadfly gadfly  gadfly

Yatook it to heart Seemed okay with butterfly

Were you insinuating I’m a gadfly?

Lets see ifya know

Annoying.

BAMspot on

                Had I called you a flutterinmoth woudya have taken the offence tha gadfly seemed to stirincite

I don’t know what you’re getting at.

You seem to think tha I might pursue your agenda your schemes when one woud obviously pursue theirs before others

Thas the human condition

                            At least till tha drivel tha coalesced into MAGA Maggots  Drawnattracted to rawmeat

Im utterly amazed how easilywillingly they overthrew their own self interests

   So no Im not here to make you happy or are you to make me happy

                                                                             Take the bull by the horns

Youre responsible for yours Im responsible for mine

he nodded Occasionally  they may overlap intersect

                                                        But I woudnt suggest either you or I hold our breaths

Free thinker

Freak thinker

Free tinker

afternoon,  Wednesday,  22  1. 25

1319,  Thursday,  30  1. 25

National Sheriffs Association (NSA)

                                      Clucks   Hiya Deputy Dawgs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BK0YOcyzlI  should they stand behind felon whose January6 insurrectionists attacked grievouslyinjurying Capitol and DC Metropolitan police officers and have been granted presidential clemency rather than . . . he lets his mind wander . . .

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-national-sheriffs-association-reveals-fealty-to-trump-not-the-law/?utm_source=Democracy+Docket+Newsletters&utm_campaign=da549b4a45-20250130_DailyDocket_LF&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-9812d8a903-603287179&mc_cid=da549b4a45&mc_eid=24a7629dac

https://www.sheriffs.org/sites/default/files/uploads/Legal%20Meaning%20of%20Oath%20of%20Office.pdf

   their oath

               “I, N A M E, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defined the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of S T A T E against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of S T A T E; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter.”

   SIGNED 

              SEALED

good to know that certain officers are willing to debase themselves

                                                                        real quality people

they do not stand behind their wordstheir sworn allegiance they ought to be bounced

   an IDEA

            they can pick cotton the fields and groves of vegetables fruits slaughter animals pick eggs make motel/hotel beds clean toilets hallways banquet rooms be short order cooks serve food etcetera etcetera  etcetera

1546,  Thursday,  30  1. 25

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBO43n_Dbh0

Teach Your Children  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCdhdeW5y-s

“. . . a focus on past guilt . . . children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents . . .”

                                                                                                Elon Musk

to equate history and guilt is shameful

                                         is a country frail or errant if it teaches its children their history why they are where they are

Germany teaches its children about the Holocaust

the Holocaust is history and should never be forgotten

Musks horseshit is reminiscent of America and efforts of some of its parts that flinch are repulsed or deny the countrys founding and resulting worldwide affluence due to its history and the horror of slavery since 1619

   simple  fact

                   John Adams

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot be alter the state of facts and evidence.”

    

   to not properly informeducate our children is abject cowardice

1127,  Monday – 80th Anniversary of Auschwitz freed,  27  1. 25

1212,  Thursday,  30  1. 25

AUSCHWITZ  https://www.auschwitz.org/en/home-page-80/

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/27/nx-s1-5276084/elon-musk-german-far-right-afd-holocaust

https://library.usfca.edu/the-1619-project

https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf

The bush the shrub whas it called

they were in her backyard

                            she lookedround to see where he might have been lookinglast looked

What are you talking about?

The brain bush all axoned telodendriaed synaptically terminaled

   she crossed her eyes

Don

     Gawd my Maw said can make them stick thaway if youre not careful

she chuckled Your Maw.  I crossed my eyes . . ifya got all the scientific shit the parcels together . whya asking me its name?

I think your name, brain plant, is spot on.

But youre constantly droppin scientific names of plants on me of birds You planted it

I planted it fifteen years agominimum. I knew it then.

                                                        Gotta make space for new information.

To forget

Seems the name of the game don’t it?

   True tha  Truetha my error

Not an error, reality.

                      It’s scientific name I can’t recall, but its referred to as a buckwheat bush.

Buck wheat bush

                     Sounds  delicious snapped his lips

Don’t do that.

               It’s disturbing.

   I was just thinkin . . 

. . I can read your mind.

approximately 1500hrs,  Wednesday,  29  1. 25

1106,  Thursday,  30  1. 25

Chick Corea  Where Have I Known You Before  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O25Wm42m3qE 

to deport criminal aliens not those who can be tried civilly

                                                                       a simple mathematical statementequation exists

   plus  equals

                    which would define who can be deported

the Fourteenth Amendment – Americas Natural Birth Rights denied  PLUS  criminals felons  equals 

hmm  methinks Trump falls into each category

                                                   therefore

EQUALS barelyPresident more voted against him nationally than for him

                                                                           Buhbye 

Herr Drumpf

1726,  Tuesday,  28  1. 25

1008,  Thursday,  30  1. 25

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/   

https://www.fr.com/insights/thought-leadership/blogs/drumpf-or-trump-the-name-confirmed/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X3QKNTMpnA

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/private-prisons-profiting-trump-administration/

https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-private-prisons-and-politicians-will-profit-from-laken-riley-act/

at a party summer  by the pool

he was attracted to a clutch of people by a particular woman sporting a thong swimsuit

if a woman  or a man for that sake has a bad ass they shouldnt sport a thong

   she had every right known to man

                                          Aisling

when they were introduced earlier she was wearing a wrap about her hips

no wrap

he was on a roll

nodding to everyone as he entered the fray he found they were conversing about dreamsdreamwork ketamine  psychedelics    transcendence

                                   right up his alley

Newcomer. one mentioned  Thoughts?

Right up my alley a long practitioner

                                       As a teenager I wanted to interiorise  Learn whamade me tick

Anlike a Timex took lickins kepton tickin

a volley of laughter

Anyone he cast his eyes around the group lingering briefly on Aisling anyone ever respondreply to a name different than their own

           Aisling hers was the only name he remembered

No. No I can’t say that I have.

Anyone

heads shook no like childrens rattles

   I have Wont forget  Only time I ever have

                                                Anthas peculiar because I enjoy my dreamed-self an dreaming-self separately simultaneously  Actor   Director

Aisling asked Do you lucid dream?

Yah Lucid  Lurid he leered only she could have caught it 

she laugheddidnt cover her mouth that upped her thong standing he was really liking her

                                                                           Lurid?

Ahyah I woudnt go to sleep if tha promisepossibility didnt linger

the whole group laughed

   I was Jarrold Lynne an English gentleman

                                                 My best friend Garnet was lost at sea Have a carved stonemarker for him in one of my garden beds that overlooks the sea

Ive found both my names to be surnames

                                              No Jarrold Lynnes save my dreamed-me

A period piece? one asked

Yes assume late Nineteenth Century

                                       Have a lover too Reminds me of Elle MacPherson Hair short curled forward like a mane 

       Ferocious in bed

Streamed the whole night

Streamed! they all laughed again

Yes Anbecause I was the host home a manse everyone called me Jarrold or Sir Lynne  which my dreaming-self yucked refurbished it Sir Loin

                                  Was a fascinating dream

Aisling asked Were you able to match Elle’s ferocity? not suppressing a leer only he could see

Gave back wha I got righteously

   I also ate cake  I rarely eat desserts

                                          Disappointed myself my dreamed-self

My dreaming-self had a riot

prior to 0600,  Wednesday,  29  1. 25

1237,  Wednesday