Enough enoughenough already

                                  You can be blownaway by menus at the various restaurants you go to

You might remember

Remember?

   Jeez

          Rare occasion I eat out  I relishunlike you  preparing  making my own food

Also pennywise

Being pennywise compels you?

Part of it

           I don have to wonder the quality of the product or if someone spitpissed in my food  I work hard for my money an Ive been disappointed too many times be it the quality of food temperature portions or having to contend with poor servers

Ive served

I refuse the risk of not being treated as I woud treat someone

   Those sound like excuses to me.

Awright  Sure

                 Lets put it another way  Disposal income   Id rather spend it elsewhere something substantial  rather than shitting it out the next day

Jesus.  You got to eat.

I do  My shit cost me five bucks

                                   Your meal cost fifty or more  Knock yourself out       

But . . if you read a menu . .

. . I don read menus

Hypothetically . . . if you did.

I don do hypotheticals  You know tha

But if you didplay along would you?

Play

     Go

If you did.

What on a menu would attract youmaybe even entice youwhat kind of dish, steak, fish, Italian, why eat something you can make at homeright?

   Awright

              Lemme think   I had thought we were going to discuss politics

I think food is a nice change up.

Must have forgotten youre talkin with someone who considers food fuel

                                                                             Who also lacks the delicate sensessensibilities to appreciate fine thingswhy  I don drink wine or woudever go to a French restaurant

Alright, alright.

                 That aside . . . what menu item would tempt you?

Tempt me tempt me tempt me

                                                      Hmmm

Come on.

Don be brusque

                   I have no idea what are on menus  Youll recall

You have a long memory. Remember the restaurant you served at.

                                                                         It had a menu.

It did  Thank you   Thas a big helpthank you

You’re welcome.

   Id   say       Warm   And viscous

                                              If tha were on a menu Id order it

What’s warm and viscous?

The item

What’s the item?

   Warm   And viscous

Jesus. shook his head disappointed

No thanks all for you

                        Not tha Id be opposed to cannibalism

1600 at least,  Tuesday,  11  3. 25

1617,  Thursday,  13  3. 25

he laughedhowled

standing across from him waiting on a break in the action                         

                                                               Aww come on, man, you can’t laugh like a hyena and not say.

Gimme  he saidwiping tears from his eyes with the heels of his hands  Gimme a   startedup again laughing hard again

whatever it was was really tickling him

Whoooah   Whooo  Jesus

                               sloowly gathered his pieces his wit

Hilarious

   Can you say?

wiped his eyes his with knuckles

                                       I . . .    he crackedup again

When youre ready.

HOWLed

   cleared his throat  Ahfuuck  Hilarious

                                               now he was able to use his fingers to wipe his eyes without gouging them out

So fuckinfunny

What? trying to be patience

Felon 

        Hes a freakin scream his eyes crinkledchoke emitted from his throat 

Please. Please.  pleading    Don’t startup again.

Whooah

               No  Think Ive gathered myself

   Felon.

Yes

Not F forwardslash Elon?

No  The real McCoy

Yes?

        What of him?

Imagine

What?

Man has a minimal vocabulary not fifthgrade  Doesnt read

Yes.

Americas First Ever Presidential Video Library

   

   he squealed  lost it again

after 1440hrs,  Tuesday,  11  3. 25

1237,  Thursday,  13  3. 25

   Where

What?

Youre a peach

                      Terre Haute

Yeah.

   Wasnt Terre Haute  Not higher ground

                                                 French

Not haughty tits

What . . what are you talking about?

Adjectives after nouns Postpositive Languages  French Italian Spanish Portuguese Hebrew Romanian Arabic Persian Vietnamesewhew been dying to get tha off my chest

Why would you know that?

Growingup I flirted with French and Spanish Italian woud follow  Liked Latin hence Hebrew interest Romantic languages  Nearly romantic as I can be

Stop.

       You strike me as a romantic.

Not reallyunless    unless  well   I made good money in college writing love letters for guys who acted badly miffed their girlfriends  Moneyback guarantee

   And?

And

Give money back?

OhHellno word got around  Made a nice little niche for myself

                                                                   Between them writing term papers selling hash grass college career covered my bills an then some  education bore the bruntI didnt graduate  Ahwell  My experiences were goldpriceless

Wasnt Terre Haute

What was it then?

You said I didnt

                   Ive no idea wha city youre talkinbout

It’s a back East city.

Because Im from the Midwest you never left California doesnt make me an urban expert  Need more rope to hang myself

   It’s back East.

What is

What I was thinking.

Jailbreak

   What?

Escaped your mindyoure doing tha  kinda   regularly

Regularly? Not really.

How so

How often we hangout?

Once a weekten days

Not so regular.

Awright  Ill concedeI love it

he laughed

              Then when we do we get high.

Highness effects my short-term memory.

Aint memory ifya say it an its gone in a nanosecond

   I think so.

Theres tha  Terre Haute

                              This might have been the first time Ive ever said it out loudIve read it

Haughty tits.

   Thaya remember

1419,  Tuesday,  11  3. 25

1201,  Thursday,  13  3. 25

Stevie Wonder  Higher Ground  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1esf0efHbjM

Listen to you woudya

   What?

incredulous You didnt hear whaya said

What did I say?

Seriously

What did I say?

This some kind of unconscious reflex

Like breathing?

Mebbe

You really havent any idea what passed out of your mouth

                                                               he turned to the third You believe this guy Yaheard himyah

Clear as a bell.

There  Clear as a bell

                        Whas with you yaspeak without thinking

he turned to the third What did I say?

What you said. wasnt giving him any leeway either

What the hell did I say?    

   You

No you, you called him out.

I appreciate that

                  turned to him  Look me in the eyes

Don’t make a production out of it.

Oh I will The fondes . .

. . Fondest hope.

Thank you

You’re welcome. Excuse the interruption.

                                              You're killing us.

Aint he

          Look at me

rolled his eyes then he looked

                                   I’m looking at you.

Hear me

I hear you.

Good  Work on hearing yourself

                                     Yasaid  I don always do anything

I don’t.

Always implies absolute

Which I don’t believe in.

But which doesnt provide or allow you to disconnect from what comes out of your mouthhow  you say things

You can be a rude motherfucker.

I’m not rude.

Not knowing what you said . . . ?

                                        Some day you’ll say without thinking an someone’s going to bust you in the mouth. Anif I’m there . . you’re on your own.

You’ll be due.

   I coud punch him now

No.

      We’re going across the street, have several drinks, he’s got the tab.

he went to speak they shushed himsimultaneously put fingers to their lips

                                                                 made them harhar

I like how you think   Absolutely

1419,  Tuesday,  11  3. 25

1032,  Thursday,  13  3. 25

. . . Im finding myself homing on Holmes

Holmes?

Junior  Served as a Supreme Court Justice

Seriously?

Gettin hooked on history

                          Whoya reading

Fritof . .

. . Capra

           Tao of Physics

Yes.  You know him?

How many Fritofs rise to literary published heights

Good point. Not Tao though, his Web of Life.

Ah

He’s a physicis . .

. . Yes Im familiar

                     Why I was blownaway when I found out he wrote Tao of Physics

I saw the title among the books inside the Web of Life.

                                                           You recall when you read it?

It wasnt out long Id say   midSeventies 

Saw it was published in Seventyfive.

There ya go

              Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science.

His words

That’s stuck with you all these years?

Profound an intriguingpowerful concept woudntya agree

Ohyes yes, definitely.

Hence my increasing appreciation of Holmes

Has he sai . .

. . Wrot . .

. . I meant . . wrote.

Yah

        I believe youll agree with his sentiment probably as much as I

Truth

Look at you intriguing me.

I knew I woud

                 He wrote All I mean by truth is the path that I have to follow.

 

Amen, brother.

   Please  Lets not demean his words

2236,  Monday,  10  3. 25

2058,  day-between-2-Ts,  12  3. 25

   Holmes  homey

                    Yup Metaphysical Club – pg61

In the dedication to the task at hand, human beings make, by their deeds, tracks in the wilderness. The wilderness itself is trackless.

                                Louis Menand 

Holmes on the other hand

                             a sonnet  in memory of his ardent friend Henry Abbot  killed 6May 1864

He steered unquestioning nor turning back

Into the darkness and unknown sea;

He vanished in the starless night, and we

Saw but the shining of his luminous wake.

Thou sawest light, but ah, our sky seemed black,

All too hard the inscrutable decree,

Yet, noble heart, full soon we follow thee

Lit by the deeds that flamed along thy track.

   the wilderness maybe trackless

                                     his arms werent ambidextrous

didnt hide them under sleeves

                                 wouldnt

anymore than he hid his scars  plenty

anymore than someone would hide their tattoos

there for some purpose

                         ask him

he asked people about their tattoos

                                      some coherent  thematic

others mishmash  random

                              those seemed to speak outwardly of what occurred inwardly

stigmata

   his tracks

                accesses  entryways  portals he chuckled

doors of perception                                                                                                                                       

2236,  Monday,  10  3. 25

1432,  day-between-2-Ts,  12  3. 25

Aldous Huxley  https://maps.org/images/pdf/books/HuxleyA1954TheDoorsOfPerception.pdf

Department of Education

Malala Yousafzai  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGL6YY6oMs

“Education is very important. Education is a power for women. And that’s why the terrorists (Taliban – felons administration – https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p7Bnl_j11l8) are afraid of education, they do not want women to get education because women will become more powerful.”

1604,  day-between-2-Ts,  12  3. 25

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand -- pg59)  admitted narrowing himself

in order to better expand

   he narrowed with a needle  would really have liked to compare notes with him

narrow

          how

   Holmes a variety of intellectual pursuits that helped broadened his mind unlike those who parceled honed perfected their pursuits to become experts

                                                      their “genius”

had no place in his life for geniuses

                                        theyre not compelled look either left or right up down turn in circles  they Know

NO

    give him jacks of all trades  wide varied experiences  contemporaneously agile flexibleFUCK  gymnasts gymnasties

he narrowed with a needle to enter himself

                                              to push throughexamine his mudmuckmire  gylcerine  slicklygranular  to know himself INside  an OUT

                                                     able to out himself unashamedly

unquestionable authority

   that was worth the risks he took

fortunately

               he returned from every trip

2020,  Monday,  10  3. 25

1317,  day-between-2-Ts,  12  3. 25

Bush  Glycerine  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOllF3TgAsM

Neil Young  The Needle and the Damage Done  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYY87VEQtRM

flummoxed

             lookssounds exactlylike what it means

a polite way of saying fucked

twice in one week

by women

a telephone call How’s it hangin’?

a text  :  :  Define okay.

   had nothing in either circumstancethey came out of left field

                                                                   an nothing for him says something

eventually he recovered to respond to How’s it hangin’?

                                                            Im seated If I stand I dress left Hangin left Id say

Want me to get up

she was flummoxed

                            Jesus wheezed out of her throat Too much information.

he was grateful she didnt say T M I

she was prone to L O L

  :  :  Define okay.

he had texted  :  :  hey kiddo, are you okay?

followed with  :  :  “define okay” is dismal

care to share?

try that one on for size

had no content

                 out of the blueusually he came out of the blue

asked a questionmade a statement but he did fill in the spaces so whoever knew where he was coming fromUNLESS it was so obvious a blind man or woman could see

he shared

it didnt bring her out

which was okay whatever okay means

   he wasnt one to pry

2004,  Monday,  10  3. 25

1146,  Tuesday,  11  3. 25

they didnt speak text email regularly

                                           the randomness made it nice    uncomplicated

text went outIMMEDIACY wasnt demanded

                                                they got to it when they got to it

uncomplicated

whichthey agreed when they applied their methodology to others they ruffled feathers

                                                                                             :  :  I texted you five minutes ago.

Yah  So

  :  :  Why didn’t you reply?

they were too politeSTOP she was too polite

                                                  she apologized

he texted  :  :  Don’t push it.

she had lots of friends

he had her an a handfulmaybe others

                                         thats the definition between social an antisocialNAH  he didnt care

the ability to not care curated his introversionhis I got better things to dohis  I can entertain myself

he enjoyed his company

he was sure if there wasorwere prior lives reincarcerationas he called it  he was a mountain man

goofin off with his cats chasinem around the house exercisinem  four in-house ferals they were shredding the couch

             only thing he liked about it was that it was green  a green that appealed

he remembered she mentioned she took in an older cat

  :  :  Hey!  Email me a picture of your pussy

 

four days later she did

she was nicely trimmed up

he hadnt the heart to respond he meant her cat

   turns out  permission granted

                                        WOWthe pictures she sent                                                      

almost swallowed his tongue  several times

  :  :  I’ve always wanted to. I think I’m a closet exhibitionist.

he encouraged her

late reggaefriday evening,  7  3. 25

1407,  Monday,  10  3. 25

Tom Jones  What’s New Pussycat?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQvIAs-nPSo