the library had a copy of Eyes With No Face in their systembut  had to submit a hold to have it transited

mariachis caught their breath   transited

                                             read his mind   he left it wideopen

Is he going to go off

He doesnt usually not in public

Jah there are laws against tha

Jah public indecency indecent exposure exhibitionism

    overhearing Awright gang  youre gettin carried away

                                                                  For now Ill well  put it to rest

Cherish it later in the privacy of home

they exchanged bemused looks

                                   Transited   He thinks its hot

Hot   Tasty

they didnt think it was

                            Really

Whadaya monkeyshines know

                                      Im the informant

Methinks I provided you shelter from the storm

Dylan

Sharp

            Suppose Ill have to withdraw the monkeyshine crack

Nah

         Like you we have thickskin

Why I let yas in

You fortify me

                   Steely inside an out

Flatterer

Transited

              From Before to Now

1506,  Tuesday,  22  9. 26

Bob Dylan  Shelter From the Storm  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rUOLtbQDk

it ran across his brain

hed put it in mindheld it  to be retrieved

                                                  but

obviously

it had a mind of its own

                             Eyes With No Face

the 1960 French film

not Billy Idol

made him pauseheel

    stopped on a footbridge over a trickle of a creekvegetation overgrowing its watercourses

closed the book he was reading

at the back of it a slip of paper

put a foot on the railing

took the red Bic from behind his ear paper on the book wrote  on an offchance Eyes With No Face

    the library wasnt that far out of his way

outloud  Satisfied

if it was it didnt say

 

Awright

           Then I am

it didnt saycouldnt provoke it

pushy motherfuckers never say

stomp mutely across his brain

mariachis warned him possibly the motherfuckers were setting him up for an aneurysm

                                                                                               he chuckled

I havent enough gray matter thereby need for copious blood vessels

                                                                           Think    Waterhose

they chuckled

 

the library had a copy in their system but theyd have to submit a hold to have it transited

mariachi caught their breath when the librarian said transited

                                                                    Is he going to go off

He usually doesnt in public

There are laws against tha

Jah public indecency indecent exposure exhibitionism

Don get carried away gang

                               Ill just put it in mind  cherish it later in the privacy of my own home

    Transited

Tasty             

1505,  reggaefriday,  18  9. 26

1215,  Tuesday,  22  9. 26

Eyes With No Face trailer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXSzGHecypw

Billy Idol  Eyes With No Face  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFpfTd0EIs

he loved her pithy one-liners

understood she was a pro

                                 Yours

You didn’t let me finishbegan laughing too soon.

Its classic

I thought so.

                    No it is not mine.

Kushner. 

         You . how shall I say . . . . hesitated . . before allowing me to take the book to read.

Jah

      Ive my reason

Reason.

               One reason?

You don know me well enough

                                     It only takes one

One.  Once?

One

    Can I ask?

Loaned a favourite book Robert Mason Chickenhawk to a friend

                                                                          He did not return it

I went to his place

He moved

You can replace the book.

You don know me well enough

                                   I have relationships with my books

Take a guys wife

He can replace her with another wife

Come now, that’s a little extrem . .

. . Is it

            If extreme  it certainly leaves no doubt in anyones mind wha I think

    There is that.

Jah

        Tha

 

she had recited Her laughter penetrating his fake sincerity like carbonation.

    he couldnt think of tha last time he thought of carbonation

                                                                      a fantastic delicious line

1540,  reggaefriday,  18  9. 26

1124,  Tuesday,  22  9. 26

Jah ya best   pause   a moment  before openin your mout again

                                                                               I think not wise

You threatening me?

Did I threaten you

                       I said  I think not wise

Ifya think threat   Wellthen

                                   Thas on you

I’ll not be threatened.

    Thanks for sharin

he stood uncomfortably shifted foot to foot

                                                    kept his mouth shut

Are we done

 

Page onehunredseventy top line  Kushners The Flamethrowers  Read it not ten minutes ago right here in hand you interrupted

he opened it

found onehunredseventy 

Threats which seem foremost in your mind  Threats are for people who aren’t willing to risk anything.

    Comfortable    Uncomfortable

Im comfortable

 

 

Wha I thought

                 Were done

he turned abruptly   paused     back to him

                                                     then walked away

    

1450,  reggaefriday,  18  9. 26

1045,  Tuesday,  22  9. 26

Lesletchacoo

    Whadafuck he just say

Werentya listenin

                          Plain as day bright as sunshine

    Maybe ya got a gift  I havent a clue

Maybe ifya deduce you can follow his lingo

 

Deduce

Jah

        Wha did he do prior to sayin wha he did

Do

     You were therewe were there

                                        Whad he do

 

He picked the soup pot up off the stove an felt its bottom

                                                                    Patted it

Whyd he pat it

To see if it was too hot to put up in the fridge

    Jah

Lesletchacoo

 

Jah

        His utterance

Cant pull it apart  to make sense of it

 

I cant  You

Jah

         Look around  Several of us understood out the gate out of his mout

You dig mout

Mouth

Jah

    Pull it apart  Lesletchacoo

 

Les  Let  Cha  Coo

Feelin its bottom he didnt put it in the fridge

No

Coo

Cool

Jah

Still too hot

                Cha  Ya

Ya  cool

          Shit

Lights come up

Lets let ya cool

Attaboy girlWha arya

Our sexes in this realm have no connotations other than those discreet perspectives we bring to the table

    Correct

               His machinations swing rabidly

No possibilities arent worth exploring

 

Dudes a freak

Yaoughta tellim

                   Hed dig the appraisal

    Yathink

1949,  Saturday,  19  9. 26

2232,  Monday,  21  9. 26

Small Faces  Itchyacoo Park  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPEVaOiXDr0

right place right time

he happened in the right place at the right time

                                                 crossing a street diagonallyslowing cars coming from either direction could see through the windshields the drivers were peeved couldnt wait to accelerate approaching the shoulder he saw a squirrel heading towards the street on a deadrun its tail like a silveredgray plume madlybobbing behind them

             he cut hardright into on oncoming traffic  they braked  he surprisedstartled the squirrel who hit their brakes  looked somewhat like their tail rearended themtheir body momentarilybunching

                                                                                                   then

elasticlike  Gumby  the squirrel cut leftflung themselves onto a cedar tree scamperedup through the low suspended branches

    he flashed a peace sign at the car braked now to a full stop and mouthed Thank you

                                                                                               appeared the driver mouthed  Idiot

he thought  I saved you from murder

    though what was utterly memorable

                                               hidden somewhere above him in the boughs

the squirrel did not chidedid not  scold him

what he also saved was

                          saved himself from moving squirrel gore to the side of the road furrow a shallow grave with his hands  bury them  cover their grave with tree litter  with fallen yellowedrust leaves

1430,  Thursday,  17  9. 26

1542,  Monday,  21  9. 26

Supertramp  Bloody Well Right  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noSXUmwiF9M

“. . . viciously strong rakia got lower in the bottle . . .”

Wheres mine

                  Rakia rakija rakiya rachiu rikea  collective term for fruit spirits fruit brandy

Wheres my glass or jar or   hand me the bottle

 

    he was musing

he had an affinity for strong spirits

                                            except Jägermeister

blew himself up at a bar  last call after a wedding

                                                         didnt vomit

might have been nice if he had

could have used his finger

                             but

didnt want to taste it again

                               ran a hot tub soaked water cooled he woke emptied some reheated the bath went back to sleep

shared the room with his youngest brother

he checked up on him

                         You’re gonna drownthis ain’t safe.

If I do daughters get everything cremated girls know where I want to be scattered thanks for checkinup

 

hasnt had Jägermeister since

he could probably drink it

just didnt want to

1005,  Monday,  21  9. 26

1220,  Monday

https://lithub.com/on-finding-the-beauty-in-a-block-of-stone/

Today there is a similar rift in our field: there are too many people in white coats who think they know it all and too many blue-collar artisans who are excluded from the process except as labor.

“I feel that there is a whole branch of contemporary philosophy that is trapped inside this mistake. The mistake is to believe that the concepts we have are necessarily adequate for understanding reality, even beyond the context in which these concepts were shaped.

“The mistake is to remain attached to a conceptual framework, without realizing that it might no longer be working in the light of what we can see when we look a little further.”

                                                                            – Carlo Rovelli

. . . of what we can see when we look a little further.

 

Listen to this

If it wasn’t Rovelli I might not listen.

The man carries weight

He does, he does.

                        I’m listening.

he read him the passage

What’s you point?

Seeing furthur

    You’re insinuating . . . I . . should see . look furthur?

Im not insinuatingurging

This that self hyphen less I can’t imagine?

Widen your conceptual framework

                                      Have a house Frameup a new addition

    I’m happy where I’m living.

 

Fact is

            You havent the imaginatio . .

. . Not for that I don’t.

                         That you can that that makes sense to you, good for you. I’m not taxing myself.

You don want to work tha hard as youve notoriously said

I’m notorious.

I can live with that.

 

    Say it aint so Joe

What?

Its a song

0953,  Monday,  21  9. 26

1152,  Monday

Murray Head  Say It Ain’t So, Joe  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbYMkh3GYM

an advertisement on a site he was reading an article from about stone masonry

                                                                            2-Minute Tip for a Spider-less Home

Who the fuck woud want to live there talking to himself

You said it replied a chorus of mariachi  Thas dumb

Dumbest thing Ive heard in awhile

                                      Stupid

Yasaid it

their place was filled with predators

                                         he occasionally woke with a spider bite

    once woke

went to the bathroom relieved himself

washing his hands lookedup into the mirror and saw smeared remains of spider across his face

he felt bad Sorry pal

washed his face

I  we   remember

                       So chill

The apology so warm   Sincere

    I am a sincerefuck

Yacall a spade a spade

                             Make me  us think   if were ever reincarnatedlaughed from so many throats it felt like surf of a tropicsea recruited   if we were wed like to be like you

No  If recruited I really like tha  If recruited you be you

                                                             If Ive been a guide a flashlight beam lighting a dark corner  Im grateful

Any idea were we can signup

I don think tha recruitment works like tha

                                               Although you likely wont find out unless givin your unique mariachiarchal attributes  you leave me

Eventually you will

I we  don want to talk about tha

But it is in thelaughed offing his laughter not comparable or as lusty as their numerous commingled voices commingled

 

Jah

      Youre a card

But   the spiders

                      Jah  Who the fuck woud want to live a in a house like tha

1014,  Monday,  21  9. 26

https://lithub.com/on-finding-the-beauty-in-a-block-of-stone/

Marlon James   hadnt picked on him in a while    recalled  not since The Book of Night Women

he has another out The Disappearers

                                          nearly choked when he read about Jamaicas gully queens “gay, trans, and gender-nonconforming people” who lived on the street  squatted  provided for themselves and others doing sex work

                             with men

“This is why sometimes a gully queen will say they had an encounter that started out with sex and ended in violence. Because whoever sleeps with them wants to destroy the memory of it.”

    breathtaking

he once worked for a building contractor who on a visit to San Francisco went to the porn district and aroused by an outdoor barker went inside bought tokens  first peekshow filmed   saw two men fuck

he thought the pornshop offered heterosexual sex only

Aw Doug arya an idiot

What would you have thought?

I woudnt have gone in

Fuck you. If you went in?

    Hypothetically

                     I woud have watched to see which peephole entertained Paul Reubens an steered clear of those

Who the fuck is Paul Reubens?

Don speak poorly of the dead

                                     Pee-wee Herman

He was a faggot.

In certain parlances cretin parlances

                                           He was gay

Ill let himabide him coopting gay   which I rarely allow  because Pee-wee was beloved

I loved the character

Two men fucking

    How long did you watch

Was only moments, guy pulled out, cumwet asshole, Christ.

Serves you right Doug

 

Youknow.

              If there was an operation that could go into my brain and remove that memory, I’d undergo it.

Pithed

What?

Pithed

I don’t know what that is.

In high school biology before dissecting frogs we pithed themscrabbled their brains with a needle extending out from a wood handle I was exceptional at it an given how squeamish the class was I helped the teacher Mr Demmerest pith

                      Id be more than happy to pith you

1806,  Saturday,  19  9. 26

1224,  Sunday,  20  9. 26

BookPage review of The Disappearers by Destiny O. Birdsong

    something    will present

something  will gel

something will

                 willing it though all the while his wiles were trying to convince it  to   be

To be

not  to be

there seemed no question it would not mind his mind

                                                        Doubting Thomases shook their shaggy hoary heads

Quit

     they spread lice lies

he spent the whole of his lifehis youth  unaffected

                                                         now

risks that

             why he wore prophylactics

to Be

      only time he wanted  to Be

anwas

women

           unfettered carbonatedcopies  effervescentcopies  copiouscopies    copiouslycopulating

0829,  Saturday,  19  9. 26

1119,  Sunday,  20  9. 26

The Agitator:  Rhiannon Giddens  Step Away Blues  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyjzdJzcKU