in the car on the way to breakfast they didnt have enough seatbelts

                                                                                   he didnt want to take two cars

he argued  Live a little  Im here

begrudgingly

                they lived

his granddaughter sat on his lap

                                     Lets finish up our conversation about spidersHUGE spiders

Glassspiders  ghostspiders

Do we have to?

We have to

             Well concluded itlet it go with one  simple   question

his daughter said Don’t let him suck you in, honey.

he laughed

             couldnt see his granddaughters face

A simple question kiddo

                         I believe  despite your looks you can handle it 

You know what he said to me, Mom?

Probably.

He said I’m not as smart as I look.

He’s told me the same.

wished he could have seen the contortions on her faceDAMN

                                                                For cryinoutloud  A simple question

Youre simple enough to answer it

MOM.

Man’s unrelenting. Answer his question.

                                               Dad?

Yah

Simple?

Woud I lie to either of you

Let Grampa ask . . you answer.

Goodlord happy thas behind us

                                    So kiddo spiders   How afraid ofem arya on a scale of zero to nine

Zero to nine, no.

Yah

The scale is one to ten.

   Baby aint nothing in this life a ten

                                          But there arewill be some things we couldnt give two shits about easypeasy rate a zero

Follow my gist

   Mom . . .

probably justbefore justafter 2200,  Saturday,  22  3. 25

1250,  Monday,  24  3. 25

   nevernever a one off   he knew better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w7RgXRXE  &  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnml3cHQzk4  &  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV3GoAM30Cg

                                                                                                      evidently felon isnt the only administration official who has their head stuffed up their ass

1917,  Monday,  24  3. 25

wasnt a dealkiller

wasnt his body

                  he respected her enormouslyappreciated her autonomy  knew she had brought herself up the hardway  defiedbettered the circuitous route of poor turns she had made

They were mine.

I was obligated.

I’m accountable for my decisions, my actions.

   How do you not fall in love with someone like tha  he thought

                                                                            he had

they dated a good while

tookup living togetherwhich surprised them both   to the marrow in their bones

                                                                                     they were committed to their own time

their wont

not to share

                                 

didnt occur to them they were

                                 Can you believe how well we get along

No I don’t, I have to pinch myself.

   he pinched her she pinched him

 

 

 

Wha do you think of babies

I don’t.

   No

Not really.

                         What do you think?

I grewupround babies

                         Im good with them

What are you asking?

                              Are you asking . me . . . . if I want . your . baby?

   I cant have one

                   Since we havent talked about babies I believe its a good conversation to have We converse better than mostHell better than any couples I know

Ohyes, far better.

                    Honesty gives us that.

Brutally so

she noddedsmiled Gawddamn those dimples

                                              Brutally.

   You think I want to ruin this beautiful bodyyou enjoyI enjoy that I worked so hard to attain?

Is it ruin

Jeez.

       You want a baby? Now?   Get a surrogate.

   Yasaid  now

Now.

        I’m not keen . now . to suffer a parasite for nine mont . .

. . Twins  Pairasites

she smiled lovely again humoured   rad dimples

                                                   P  A  I  R.   My clever lover.

You know I love you very much.

his turn to nod no dimples  I love you inside out 

 

   For now . . I only want us to share our pie together.

Yes  Our halves

Yes.

   Im selfish   Too

Yes. We dig.

                  Let’s table it for some other time.

I can do tha

 

   their relationshipso delicious was that they alwaysalways returned to territoriesconversations they paused for another time

   they had crazylong memories

after 2100hrs,  Saturday,  22  3. 25

1137,  Monday,  24  3. 25

Woud you walk 

she was shufflindown the hall looking up at the ceilingat its corners he was walking behind her

Walk

     Wha arya doin

whispered  Spiders.

Wha ofem I told you they tend to keep to the ceilingwhy

   Why?

Yes   Why

I don’t know.

Down here sidestepped her motioned with his handspalms flat small circles hipheight they entered the livingroom  Spiders tend not to be here because of the cats the cats will kill them

I like that.

Yes

      I thought you might         But let me show you something

What?

   Glassspiders

                      Ghostspiders

What?

Youre not as smart as you look follow me got cats

                                                    she caught the slight but he was rolling steamrolling and she knew from experience hed go right over the top of her to get to his point

                                                                               led her back into the hall left into the bathroom pointed at the slab of rock encrusted with seashell fossils sitting on the sink cabinet

Theres this strata thathey inhabit oohsooquiet

                                                       Look

Do you see

What am I looking at?

Glass  ghost spider

                          See the real fine  web

Where?

Between the back of the rock into the cornerstrung on the texture of the walls to the mirrors edge

I don’t see anything.

Watch  Im going to blow eversoslightly into the corner

                                                          Watch

he exhaled

   a shimmer  shimmered

There

I see.

So very  fragile

Yes.

Like glass

Like a ghost.

You see

Yes yes.

Youre not afraid

No.

      I’m not afraid of this spider.

But the ones overheard who remain in their websscarcely move about   frighten you

Maybe.

          Because I can see them very easily and theyre . . big.

Ah  Perhaps a matter of scale he chuckled

                                                         sounded like a hick What we got here . . a failure . to communicate

What?

   Yasay wha an awful lot

But like I said

Lets go  Familys waiting on us to go to breakfast

2100,  Saturday,  22  3. 25

1008,  Monday,  24  3. 25

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

pounding on their chests like apes an apettes  Make America Great Again

Tell ya wha

             Thawas a timeonce upon a time ago when eggs didnt cost an arm an a leg

Right

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3oMPqUTxCE

0953,  Monday,  24  3. 25

he wasnt stonedbut he could be   could be

                                             ought to be

was a little disappointed that edibles were stealthy

                                                       werent sendingup smoke signals like in Days of Yore

Bygone

          Nostalgic

   Youre lookin at me funny

I'm so high I don’t even know I’m looking.

Funny

   I’m high.

Bygone

Heard of it.

   Shall I

What shall you shall?

Wistful 

   Wisty.

Yah

      Sure

Dreamy

   Dreamy.  I think icecream.

                                 SnoCones. Cotton candy. Saltwater taffy.   Freshpopped buttered popcorn.

Ever steal a pie cooling on a windowsill

   Steal?   

No. 

Yamissed gold

               Fuckin amazing  Tasty tasted better because nothing tastes as delicious as guilt   Gettin away with it 

Sentimental   Mental

   What are you talking about?

Nostalgic

   Huh?

Moony

   You miss I’m high.

Misty eyed

               Sloppy

Ive enjoyed slopever  ever   I mean ever  Ever have a chick cum on youI have  she shot rockets that overflowed my mouth entered my ears

                                         Must admit   I choked on her enthusiasm

Moonstruck

Moonstruck?

   Doncha think

What?

Nostalgic

   I can’t think.

                  I’m high.

1117preferred on 2317,  Sunday,  23  3. 25

buddy had a need to be needed

in the face of the obvious he couldnt deny it

                                               though thought it   misfortunate

If youre so concerned I wonder why you didnt enter a seminary which is scads different from the semenary S E M E N A R Y  in case you lack the imagination I incite  represent

Why didnt you

                 Think of all the soulsall the souls not just hers  you could have helped

Anyour parents  Catholics

                               One of their children enteredserved the Church theyd be heads over heels

Brother

            Yamissed your calling

What the fuck are you rambling on about?

Needing  The need to be needed

She needs help.

No doubt

Your point?

   I have a need to be kneaded  K N E A D E D

                                                    Do you grasp  my point

Have you no empathy . . . no compassion?

Mine are hard won

                     But if something strikes me as parasitic   A ghastly word

I call a spade a spade

If the truth hurts

                   So be it

   You don’t understand.

I understand the whiff of a cunt

You don understand

Do you understand  being taken to the cleaners

                                                  Where do you carry your wallet

What? 

Ya heard me

 

In my back pocke . .

. . Easy to be pickpocketed

                                  Where do I carry mine

   I’ve no idea.

I don carry a wallet

                         I carry cash ID in my front pocketWhy

Why?

Wha I asked

I’ve no idea why you carr . .

. . Neednt repeat the obvious

                                Because

Ill know who got in my pants

1525,  Sunday,  23  3. 25

Democrat Representative Jamie Raskin says at the 11:15 minute-mark  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mNBJdkTEnc  that due process are the two most beautiful words in the English language

   evidently disagreeing with felon

tariffs  beautiful word  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWLTayuuzs

groceries  simple  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tn9ZvmXDpJ4 & https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ALYxulsOOfE

felons a liar

                cant believe Wharton is proud of him or Yale Law is proud of its alumni who are servingkowtowing Dear Leader

So it goes.  said Kurt Vonnegut  it accompanying every death in Slaughterhouse 5

1047,  Sunday,  23  3. 25

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/04/11/culture-re-view-kurt-vonneguts-five-best-quotes#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20are%20what%20we%20pretend,what%20we%20pretend%20to%20be.%E2%80%9D

What goes around comes around  f/elon   holding handsskipping with felon

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/tesla-vandalism-not-coordinated-trump-musk-claims-rcna197369

while felon tries too hard  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjdg4x08ylo

TESLA savaged . . . hmmm  let me say this about tha

                                                          American governmental agencies

   tough luck f/elon

1021,  Sunday,  23  3. 25

he had more spiders than you could shake a stick at

his granddaughters askedsneering Why don’t you get rid of them?

   Why donya go home

Jeez, Dad.

Sorrybabe My house my rules my spiders

                                               Asya know I have a deep abidingaffection for them

Even blackwidows you lose your shit over  kill

I didn't want the girls getting bit.

When they were young

                         Theyre old enough to discern a widow an can give it wide berth outofdoors

Indoors

         Yacoud remove them rather than killem

My house my rules.

Touche

         Your house

he turned roundanround in the livingroom

                                              My house

You're fast becoming a curmudgeon.

Actually Im a pleasant old man if someone doesnt fuck with me

                                                                    Youre not fuckin with me

   No.  I’m not.

she stepped out onto the front porch where the girls escaped

                                                                Grampas rules.

We have to sleep in there? chorus

Grampa sleeps here every night. The spiders stay up to the corners of the ceiling; we’ll be fine.

This is a nightmare come true. said the eldest

Grampa has a truce with them.

Truce?

An agreement.

With spiders?  incredulous

If anyone can strike a bargain with arachnids, they’d be him.

I’ll sleep in the car.

Me too.

No.  Neither of you will.

                          To the best of my knowledge he’s not negotiated with child abductors, gypsies. When a little girl and I crossed Gramma and Grampa they’d say keep it up, you keep it up and you can pack a bag and go with the gypsies.

They offered to help me pack.

   Is he crazy?

No.  Not at all.

                 He’s a devotee of spiders.

What’s a devotee?

A fan.

in the morning he made them his World Famous handbeaten waffles butter pats powder sugar maple syrup the real deal thickcut bacon fruit berries to have with or without Greek yogurt

                                                                                they forgot they survived the night  

1830ish,  Saturday,  22  3. 25 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3lzDep1Qr0

                                                        Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 

   oligarchy   ol – i – gar – chy

                                    just looking at the word makes people flinch

it means a small group of people having control of a country

felon f/elon and their ilk

                          ilk means billionaires  means $1,000,000,000 minimum

if somebody has onehunred dollars

                                       a billionaire has ten million times more money than somebody

that said whose interest does somebody think an oligarchy wants to serve

                                                                                because

to amass one billion dollars

                               somebody  has to be a sociopath – lacks empathy remorse and regard for social norms or a psychopath – lacks empathy remorse  their manipulative callous behavior often leads to antisocial and criminal tendencies

                                     somebody only need recall Trump was tried found guilty of 34 felonies

dont blanch when seeing oligarchy

                                                  just recognise its inhabitantstenants could give two shits about somebody  

1515,  Saturday,  22  3. 25

I didnt catch wha she said  sounded like Dandy

      Candy.

You don sound sure

I thought she said Candy.

Id prefer Dandy

Dandy?

Doncha think

                   Or Dandy Candy certainly was a sweetheart

She was.

they were munching strawberries she sold off a cart alongside 93 where it meandered through their small town

   Then theres Thalia

She of wonderful clavicles.

You recall

You made a big deal of them.

Love dem bones love their Plender gap

   What?

Jugular notch suprasternal notch also  Plender gap he smiled

                                                                    Love learnin something new every day

I do.  I wasn’t familiar.

Let me tip you again

Something you think I won’t know?

Correct

Quite an assumption.

If I was a gambling man Id take your money

You’re so sur . .

. . Absolutely knew that irritated him

cocky look on his face Have at it.

Thalia  Mythology

                      Concede

I think I knew that.

One of the Three Gracesya didnt know tha Thalia the muse of comedyfunny tha she woud be handing out religious pamphlets

                     J period T period C period Chick tracts

Conceived by American cartoonist Jack Chick in the Sixties

Ya didnt know tha

I did not.

See  Money in the bank

                           Furthurmore  Thalias sisters were Aglaia Euphrosyne

Thalia  blossom blooming flourishing  festivity

Ya didnt know tha

   No

Money in the bank

 

Thalia

Why Thalia?

Impressed me

                  Only the third time Ive run into her in three years Im walkinreadin shes an ardent believer

Which is too bad

Why’s that?

Prior times we met it was cold

                                  Warm the other day  Unclad   Clavicles visible

When she turned to walk away I actually turned to check out her ass

Mother of Gawd

Sweet ass

   But  shes religious antha detail is an immediate dealkiller

Deal killer?

I call it tha

              In your lingo  Dealbreaker

Tha you have five before you bow out

Me  One an gone

That’s severe.

Thas all I need know

2PMishmash,  Thursday,  20  3. 25

1213,  Saturday,  22  3. 25

https://www.chick.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopaxewuivmX9xTEWr-OR-CKLTH6RqnqfpI8OBaA_VLDu5uWGTY6