Its my favourite pan pot  whahaveyou

bemused  smiled

                   It looks tortured.

I think the same

                     Ive made some mistakes  got carried away an forgot she was on

On?

Boiling water  Several times

                                 Boiling eggs once  Four    Three blew up

Shes been savaged

She?

Jah 

        But aside from her unsightliness she remains functional

   Function outweighs looks

she put her hand to her throat

Youve made both in the shade

    I don’t know.

I wont forget you

No?

No

 

Are you going to render me like her?

Ifyad like

               Weve only just begun

Will she be in effect while making dinner this evening?

Im barbecuing on the Weber Ribeye onion green pepper potato

                                                                   If youd like tea     Then

You don’t have a teapot.

Im such a dude  no

                          How do you like your steak

Rare.

Thereya have it

                      Youre a Mounds

    When are you going to explain what that means?

Ill not ruin the mystery

                           Eventually youll get it

Strikes me  youd like it better tha way

 

Whell, I’m liking you better and better.

We got off on the right foot

Recruited reincarnation, ahhum, reincarceration.

Atta grrl

1015,  Thursday,  8  10. 26

they just met

                 to be sure hed been finagling his way through pool party attendees to get within striking distance sounds predatory   although  her coy glances compelled him  he was determined in the shortest time possible to learn if she could hang

                                           she was attractive

was she attractive inside

                              which

made her a Mounds bar or not

Reincarnation  Also known as reincarceration

    Yes? she didnt stumble

Does the recruitment happen before ya die or afterwards

Recruitment?

I believe either works given the powers thabe

Powers.

Im comfortable with powers

I . . . . I . . man, that’s a wild question.

Thas how my brain works

                               Thought Id get tha out early which presents you the ability to tell me to take a hike

Or not

I came over a stranger

                            An getting stranger

    Whell, you’re not the usual cup of . . . tea?

Id prefer something stronger

Buffalo Trace.

Cuttin close to my heart

                          Eagle Rare

Two of my favourites.

Likewise

Recruitment

When

   I would say, not having considered it before, off the cuff don’t hold me to it if after pondering further, I, not, changing my mind, rather, elaborating my answer.

I can do tha

 

I’d agree with you.

 

Golly

            Youre a Mounds

after 1340,  Sunday,  20  9. 26

1223,  Thursday,  8  10. 26

Power Station  Some Like It Hot  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1t7OCESUw

The posts are identified in a list a column the first letter of the first word capitalised

O

C

W

Y

T

F

C

K

 

Awright.

Whadaya make of it

Make of it?

    Jah  Stretch your brain

                                 O  C  W  Y  T  F  C  K   Wha

he looked stymied

aggravated

It doesn’t look like anythi . .

. . Comon youre the acronym guy

You’re not.

Im not

            Take a stab at it

Play

I don’t want to play.

Ohmygawd

                 Were in your playground your sandbox on your jungle gym apparatuses swings

No we’re not. You’re aggravating me.

Aggravating

                   Were only playin

You’re playing.

    FerChristssake

O  Obsessive

C  Compulsive

W  Y  T  F  C  K

                       Why the fuck              Can you see tha

    Now that you’ve said, yeah.

Although

             Now tha I have Ive ruined it for other renditions

Wanna take a stab at it

No.

O  C  W  Y  T  F  C  K   On aCcount of the Way The Freakin or Fuckin Can was Kicked

What’s that suppose to mean?

Youve never kicked a can

Wha  Ya unAmeriCAN

                         Hate to say it  A gorgeous Viet Cong improvisation

They paid strict attention to America Americans  our hubris  entitlement  an the fact tha eighteen year old boys were fighting goaded on by World War Two Korean War vets tha mentality  an the Draft

Needed to say no

Was America willing to imprison a generation

All we coud think was to bombem into submission

                                                          Sound familiar

The Viet Cong were fighting an existential war

                                                     Sound familiar

    Acronyms really set you off.

Ya think   

1037,  Thursday,  8  10. 26

https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/8-of-terrifying-booby-traps/

Okay  A game

A game?

            What game?

Word association chuckled

                              You game

How do you play it?

I say a word

               You say the first word that comes to mind

Very Jungian.

Jah First Sir Francis Galton

                                Then Carl Gustav Jung

May I go first?

If you like

Sick.

Sin

That was quick. Pop Rocks.

Blow job

         Cherry Her tongues red Blue Raspberry Her tongues blue nice to suck her tongue afterwards

You’re sick.

I like sex

            Though better when in love

Love

Love? What?

Whas love got to do with it

                               Youll remember

    Wontya

 

Christ.

           How’d we get here?

You were insulting

                     I was getting you back

Ive never been to a marriage counselor

 

Still game

             Divorce

late September,  2026

1019,  Thursday,  8  10. 26

Tina Turner  What’s Love Got to Do with It  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_HlgOJYp04

Chatbots agentic AIs  do not have morals

Which is not to say machines are immoral

Pope Leo XIV says

                     In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce, there is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

    Why are you telling me this?

I do not consider you artistic

I am.

When was the last time you went to an art museum

 

I’m not keen on them, it’s been a long time.

Long ago why did you go

                                    Trying to impress a girl

As a matter of fact, yes.

And if not for the girl woud you have gone

I went.

Thaya went wasnt the question

                                    Zero girl zero museum

    I couldn’t say. I enjoyed the exhibit.

What was it

I . . . don’t . can’t . . remember offhand.

You a teenager

Don’t be ridiculous.

Me    Ridiculous

You haven’t been in a while.

Early twothousandeighteen With my daughter Picasso an Rivera LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art

     Then too many deaths Then Coronavirus Then depression   Then writing my way out of it

 

Its been a while

    You are correct

1733,  Wednesday,  7  10. 26

0934,  Thursday,  8  10. 26

Breaking Points  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhWeyGEplU4

Pope Leo XIV  https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

when a child who is dying tells you they are

                                                   and we deny them because were denying ourselves

acknowledge their reality  OUR reality

he did not accept that reality until his daughter communicatedtexted him Up my morphine

Really

Yes.

    hed jumped onto her bandwagon  I’m defeating ALS.

                                                               feeding tube be damned

Doc  When she no longer needs it we can remove it

    Yes.

 

that tube was cremated with her body

in a sense

removed

the doctor didnt lie

                        he  ultimately       lied to himself

    his daughter asked him to believe

he believed

 

half of her ashes are at his right hand

2132,  Wednesday,  7  10. 26

You recall when you referred to my Aries ram   as a goat

I don’t follow astrology, bogus, goat, ram, what’s the difference?                                   

Comparatively

                   A vast difference

Adult male sheep  A ram  An adult male goat

                                                    A buck  Or a billygoat

Vast difference  Entirely different animal specieswhich  you know  Were just trying to get under my skin

Which, I did. grinning

    Yadidnt

                  Just made me think that while you were attending USC either you failed them or they failed you

You graduated with a undergraduate degree in biology

I didnt graduate  but I studied biology a strong two an a half years in a quarter system an every biology class chemistry class had associated threehour labs

                                                              You said you didnt remember lab work

Wha  the  fuck

 

See.

           I did upset youget under your skin.

Actually  wha you aroused was pity

I cant wait for you to misaligned a chipmunk a squirrel with a rat  all in the Order Rodentia

The adept twitchysnakeishtail chipmunk will feel sorely towards you

                                                                             Likewise the bushytailed squirrel

    Youre makin no friends man

 

Butyah, I graduat . .

. . Without knowledge you enjoyed four years military service deferment

                                                                                  No Nam for you

There was no Nam for you.

    I refused to submit

                          Draft Board  I coudnt convince the others not to step forward

Every fuckinoneofem tha day did

Draft Board had me return again later tha afternoon the next day the next day the next day

Threats galore

Which were shit

Because the only way they coud prosecute them was if I did stepped forward

 

    I wish I knew how many of those guys returned

                                                           Not in boxes

hyenalaughed

                             Wasnt in my stars

late September,  2026

1646,  Wednesday,  7  10. 26

this afternoon a shorter shadow led him

a few days earlier taller  he followed them like a bloodhound on a scent

    I’m only shorter because of the time of day.

I understan . .

. . You remember the moon, the full Harvest moon on the twentysixth?

Jah

          You were very tall

    Oh.   You noticed. that seemed to sober them

I did

           I got my eye on you

You do.

I do

 

Why?

Im gangbusters onya

                         Our tether isnt something I take for granted

Its scarcely a tether

Were anchored a step at a timeevident when I stop walking  stand on one foot

If I lift my heelstand on the ball of my foot  scarcer yet

I leap into the air

Were unbound

    I sometimes wonder if I coud levitate

                                                     Woudya stick around

    I haven’t given that any thought.

A curious propositio . .

. . Was a curious thought

 

We can’t try it.

No

I cant levitate

That’s a shame; would have been interesting to put it to a test.

Ive no doubt

 

You hanging in there?

I am

            Your participation assistance helps

Aww.

         You’re awfully sweet.

 

1339,  Tuesday,  6  10. 26

1258,  Wednesday,  7  10. 26

flabbergasted

a uniquestruck him unique  word

etymology

             Oxford English Dictionary

First mentioned in 1772 as a new piece of fashionable slang; possibly of dialectal origin; Moor 1823 records it as a Suffolk word, and Jamieson, Supplement 1825, has flabrigast, ‘to gasconade’ [to boast extravagantly], flabrigastit ‘worn out with exertion’, as used in Perthshire. The formation is unknown; it is plausibly conjectured that the word is an arbitrary invention suggested by flabby adj. or flap n. and aghast adj.

oohbrother

             picked up for his personal perusal  gasconade flabrigastit which reading it fixated on tit an coud recall on too many occasions to count he was wore out by exertion  happy memories    mammaries

    it wasnt a word he used frequently popped up in the prior piece

                                                                                  then pausing to read a few pages in Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History by Linford D Fisher he read  . . . searching for more such archival instances in the United States, the Carribean, and the United Kingdom, I was flabbergasted by how much evidence for Native enslavement exists in bits and pieces if we are willing to look for it.  . . . Native enslavement was everywhere . . .

he was looking forward to reading dismally more

                                                        flabbergasted

things come in threes

he was anxiouslyanticipating its next appearance

hed shit if someone said rather than him reading it

                                                      odds on  would read it   Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel

 

    were products of our upbringing

1048,  Tuesday,  6  10. 26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgOWvpg1LwQ

Cranberries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yam5uK6e-bQ Dreams  no  not the band

                   

                                                                                        Hot  Room temperature Cold

With what?

flinched didnt think that through  With something

They have to be with something

Turkey.

            Yams. Green beans. Creamed pearl onions. Thanksgiving. Christmas.

    No  Nothing

                    I enjoyem hot  sometimes pour vodka over them

Not as a side?

Not a side  Standalone

I don’t see the attraction.

You eatem

With turkey, ham, part of a meal. almost crossed her eyes  appeared tempted

So  you only haveem on whasounds like   holidays

   

    I . . . honestly . . can’t think of a time when it wasn’t.

                                                             They’re red, festive, pop like an exclamation point with dinner.

he nodded On the occasion I have it with something  oyster stuffingsurfeit with oysters

Holidays?

My familys elsewhere far far away   I don do holidays

Friends?

Im asked I decline I thank them

                                     I appreciate their invite

Why would you do that?

Ive my reasons  Weve only met

                                     Merriments not a strong suit  Id be performative an thabe dishonest

    Dishonest.

                      I’m flabbergasted.                                                                                         

I take it your familys nearby.

Yes.

I moved away from home long ago

                                            chuckled  in his head heard the conclusion of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18   Home

I still call it tha

    Home is my parents  Where they are is home

I moved away long ago

I prefer dips

Like in a pool 

Yaknow laughed

                            Gene pool

You’ll excu . .

. . Speak your mind impossible to offend me

    I was going to say.

                            You’re odd.

An exception

                   Not to be confused with exceptional  laughed fullthroated 

2230ish,  Monday,  5  10. 26

1023,  Tuesday,  6  10. 26

Yuja Wang  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsqXCO0ADwM