E I E I Oh

What’s that all about?

    About

             Youre the one gaga for acronyms

Whaya make of it

E I E I O . . .

If itll help

           The oh isnt an O its a O H   Exclamation

So you’ve reduced it.

I have

E I E I

Ja

muttered E I E I.

I can help ifya like  Yamight identify in another way

Sure.

I Q E Q E I C I

                   I threw the C I in there but its unlikely youd have any familiarity with it made it up

Awright.

          So I'm working with I Q E Q E I. Disregard the C I. You’ll let me in on it.

Correct

I Q.

Ja

Intelligence quotient.

A fixation of yours Take this I Q test

                                        How many times youve told me you cant help yourself

I can’t help myself.

E Q

Help me.

While ya may excel in I Q  You fumble E Q pretty regularly

Q remains quotient?

Ja

E.  Fumble.

             Emotional?

You don have to ask

                       Youre lousy

I have feelin . .

. . For yourself  Which is expected

                                      You were raised a very entitled white man  Thas a full time job

features darkened  Fuck you.

Am I lyin

    You make it sound bad.

Its a dirty job Somebodys got to do it

                                         An yaint alone

Millions an millions of very entitled white men  An then your average like me  an entitled white man inherited by birth

E I

E remain emotional?

It does

I? 

Like the I you know

Intelligence.

Ja

     Yet another score ya take a bath on

So I Q E Q E I  Youre there save C I

                                         Which you conferred on me

I did?

Yadid

    Hint

Yeah. Yes please.

Lateral thinking

                  Youre constantly on me about tha

Because youre constantly doin it.

Thank you  Its a compliment

It is.  And you don’t prefer compliments.

I do not

                Blowing smoke up my ass  I C  Or pronounced ick

You’re icky.

You tryin to be clever

I am.

Something else Ive asked you to stop

                                          Okay  Icky

C I

Creative intelligence

                         Lateral thinking

Ja

Ja . . er Yes. Now you’ve got me jaing

Wha I do

I Q E Q E I C I

                   Old MacDonald had a farm E I E I O

Oink oink here

1725,  reggaefriday,  27  6. 25

1624,  Saturday,  5  7. 25

    she shrugged

 

 

he shrugged

                     Thas not an answer

What do you want me to say?

You say wha yasay I asked the question  The answer doesnt fall to me

 

she shrugged again

 

                                 It was a mistake.

Your boyfriend was a mistake

    Yes.

A mistake

I said. Yes.

The mistake a reason an excuse

                                    A reason for an excuse Make an excuse for a reason

You’re making me uncomfortable.

Im your friend

                 Im the friend you came to

You shoudnt be uncomfortable

It’s not easy to admit to a mistake.

Is it true

I made a mistake?

Its true

          Something true shoudnt be hard to admit

Particularly to a friend

To me

I have your back

Believe Ive always had your back

You have.

 

    I told you he was a mistake

You did.

Now we both know

                      We go forward

We learn

 

she sighedsmiled

                    Something new every day

he smiled

             Im rubbin off on you

 

1725,  reggaefriday,  27  6. 25

1342,  Saturday,  5  7. 25

Jefferson Airplane  My Best Friend  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUYsSPwrymk

they had had more than a couple boilermakers

but who was counting

a 4th of July picnic

they came with people

werent driving

they were unimpeded

Your Trader Joe’s bag looks heavy.

                                       it laid at the end of a wood picnic table benches attached weathered gray heavy motherfuckers  they helped pick them up move them into a kind of oval so the majority of the gathering was within conversations ears 

                                            could drop out of one not move enter another

that was earlier

some people had left some dispersed remaining food watermelon from their Igloo coolers to lighten their loads that otherwise would have to hump across a huge grassy field to the street where they parked

Its not heavier than usual

What’s in it?

Clipboard couple of books dictionary

You brought a dictionary?

Ja  One of the books nonfiction has been tripping me up even in context Im guessin Im unfamiliar

You actually think you were going to be reading today?

I was invited don know most of the people I mean look on the blanket over there People are napping

Shade. It’s warm. Heat and liquor can take it out of ya. Nothing a quick snooze can’t mitigate.

But, really, a dictionary. You could use your phone.

I didnt bring it

I don’t go anywhere without mine.

                                     Kindalike you and your canvas bag . . . with a dictionary in it.

Thasaid  A second

                     the bag was at the other end of the table pinioning on his ass he swung his legs over the bench bare feet on the grass stood stepped to the end pulled the dictionary out stepped back sat pinioned on his ass facing him again

                                         Get your phone out

he did

The word is decrement

D  E  C  R  E  M  E  N  T.  Correct?

Spot on

         Opposite increment

Yeah.

You look it up on your phone Ill find it in the dictionary  On Go  One two three Go  Okay

We’re racing?

We are

Good thing we’re drunk.

Reason  Or excuse

I could give two shits if someone asked.

people sitting around other tables overheard him

I could give two shits.

majority nodded  smiled   watched

Any bets

everyone was a gentleman  no bets   though seemed awfully curious engaged

Ya set

I am.

Put the phone down on the table  Dictionarys on the table

he did

        Whoa. A second I wanna sip of beer.

Good idea

they started sipping but the tip became a pour

emptied their heavy pint glasses  belched

group laughed

they smiled around at everyone

Okay

Okay now.

    One  two  three  Go

they did

thumb into the D tab opened the book shuffled pages

banging away at keys

Go go go . . . gang chanted

 

A reduction or diminution  I quote Relaxation produces a decrement in sympathetic youre pathetic nervous system

Ooooh  the crowd taunted

he closed the dictionary

                          Since youre still at it Ill get us another beer

not looking up from his phone he quit punching

My phone weighs less

Ja

1647,  reggaefriday,  27  6. 25

1211,  Saturday,  5  7. 25

learn something new every day

he didnt set a quota seek trends

since he was a moving target in flux   quotas trends would fall flat

                                                                           he wouldnt help them up

                                                                                 dust them off

                                                                            they were on their own

he was smarter than that

 

    CONFESSION

what he learned he learned from books

socialising

social media

                wouldnt cut it

had been swallowed by education indoctrination pedagogy

                                                                   he cut his way out

late to Cub Scouts he used his Official Camillus blue handled knife

disemboweled from within didnt go over well

Junior high high school were hell

practitioners of the Art were warned in advance

likewise he was awarecognisant he was walking into ambushes

and to forego any real trouble

he left the knife at home

    their usual reprimand fuckin talking point Keep it up, buddy. his name wasnt Buddy You’ll become a juvenile delinquent.

             yawpedTime to time I might be late  But youll always get my homework

 

he really didnt know what to make of them

they didnt know what to make of him

so he learned the hard way

                              which they all discovered appealed to him

he believed

             best bang for his buck got his moneys worth

 

 

someone tried to tell him that clair was egg whites

                                                       Clara he corrected them  was a company that developed a way to produce egg white protein not egg whites a precise fermentation  no chickens involved

if they remembered

                         theyd learn something new

after 1531,  reggaefriday,  27  6. 25

1308,  reggaefriday, 4th of July ‘25

. . . Empedocles

                      he didnt know him

reading his name struck himmade him stop in his tracks was walkingreading thought what an misfortunate name

took a slip of paper folded in the book The Metaphysical Club and noted the philosophers name chastised it  employed pedophile recorded his maxim Like is known by like

he notedwhich WOWed him Empedocles didnt make a distinction between perception and cognition

    also  Aristotle attributed him only an account of perception

“For it is by earth that we see earth, by water water,/By aether divine aether, and by fire destructive fire,/And fondness by fondness, and strife by baleful strife.”

exhausting the slip of paper he hoped nothing more profound occurred so he didnt have to tear its corners off and bookmark pages

ducked a bullet

                  profound things he read he already knew

Lo an behold

               examples of perception and cognition

0000,  Wednesday,  2  7. 25

1221,  reggaefriday,  4th of July ‘25

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empedocles/#Perc

    Any last words

                                that sounded ominous

wasnt associated with a haywagon ride to a guillotine  gallows  firing squad   blindfolded                                                                                                                    No

he was turning in for the night catch a little shuteye said out loud

                                                                                 his last words

Good night

             however

he expected roaming visages to come to his sleeping consciousness

    years ago he crossed unconsciousness off the books 

nightly he was joined at the hip with an anticipatory consciousness

                                                                        kids  excited knowing Christmas was in the morning

there were times

                   times he wished for the National Association of Broadcasters their Seal of Good Practice end of the day it followed by the Indian head test pattern the drone

                                                                           sometimes

he was streaming way ahead of service programmes

 

it turned out to be a good night

                                      again   

0100,  reggaefriday,  4th of July ‘25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmZHo6W4S8

delete  erase leave no trace

                                   thought there might have been an immediate opposite  antonym

hafexpected OBSOlete to appear

                                    only in his mind

probablybecause  he was encouraged to quit things tha no one recognised any longer

    molding in a grave meat gone badexcept  tampered meat    meat  embalmed

                                                                                          certainly not pickled

not a buried clay pot of kimchi

                                  though  if it were

whod eat it 

his hand went rightup

                       hunredyear old duck eggs  virgin boy eggs look thaup

How do you know ifya don try

    Sic . .

. . interrupted her  Please

                               Not again

Sick.  Puppy.

Oughta pause tha

 

Ive eaten you after a days hike

                                       Thenya kissed me 

Im just sayin as nobody has tried

                                    Thasaid

Id rather it was sundried  Jerked

                                        Smoked

Unfuckintainted

    Remember when the plane went down in the Andes

                                                           Rugby team if Im not mistaken

My mother was repulsed shed rather die

Maw  Don eat youll die

I’d rather die.

Then

        More for me to eat

 

OBSOlete

Yabetcha.

              And take a shower before you come to bed.

No shit

         Thought this conversation woud get me bounced

    I’m horny.

1531,  reggaefriday,  27  6. 25

1711,  Thursday,  3  7. 25

Stephen Stills  Love the One You’re With  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZyj6GECjZ0

she rolled her eyesworked to keep her mouth from dropping open

                                                               You’re a sick puppy.

One womans opinion  As yasay a small sample size

You share that tidbit with anyone else?

Ya think it but a tidbit  A small tasty morsel

                                                No   Just thought it up

Morsel?

I said

Immorsel.

Look at you  Im rubbing off'

                                 Must say tha makes me proud

Immoral.  In cas . .

. . In case  Like Id miss thaChrist

                                    Too many people pointing fingers accusations of moral morality immoral Like these cunts care

Years ago

Ill remind you

Know what you’re problem is?

Love when I told wha my problem is

You’re problem, you haven’t enough money to be immoral.

                                                                   Tha I liken to cruelty

Liken to depravity

Fortyseven Thirtyfour count felon

                                    Depraved

An those under him are tryin to be as depraved                                        

Quit morals

Worthless against these cunts

So no

         Im no sick puppy

Callin a spade a spade

    Really?

Ja

Correct me if I’m wrong.

Wont hesitate a sec

 

    He’s not in a coma. He’s utilizing his time.

Spot on

1531,  reggaefriday,  27  6. 25

1625,  Thursday,  3  7. 25

Pianza  When Thoughts Drown You  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTHQ17jE95Y

. . . and not to be outdone or overlooked  like the othersignored   dispatched

                                                                             Darken an eejits doorway woudya

Microsoft Store planted ITs fanny in that same calibrated space

                                                                    “lower right appeared a block if his screen was divvied laterally five squares vertically three itd be a fifteenth”

pitched to be fair zip interest he utterlydisregarded the title of the computer game a Can’t Miss Fourth of July SALE!

                                                                                  he didnt play games

                                                                                     he wasnt fun

what he did for fun was Rovellis learning is about unlearning things we think we know

what he did for fun was Jeffersons belief history is philosophy teaching by example

what he did for fun was struggle not to be an eejit if he could help it

                                                                          he was ignorant

on purpose

               if he wasnt interested  computer games

he did not invest time

his Time

Everyones Time

is limited

                      Why waste it

0914,  Thursday,  3  7. 25

1514,  Thursday

not to be outdone

                   maybe tickled by an iolo System Mechanic or an HP experience partner WORD had to get ITs two cents in

he wrote Im sayin did it again which WORD in ITs infinite wisdumb corrected  Ims ayin

Yah whas Ims ayin

                     WORD doesnt step in to correct it that wiggly redunderline  cool as a cucumber

like a cop

           Nothing wrong here, folks, nothing to see. Move it along, please, keep moving along. Nothing to see here.

so in a prickish mood AI brings tha out of him he Googled Ims ayin

                                                                   Ims ayin is not a standard or recognized phrase in Hebrew or any other language

    in Hebrew he took a breath

had he written this undefinition he would wrote  . . . is not a standard or recognised phrase in any language

but taking a breath

                        the undefinition continued

ayin is the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, a silent letter thas a pip associated with “eye” or perception

a silent letter

                 leave it to the Jews he can say tha hes a polack could have been a 50s television show

1036,  Thursday,  3  7. 25