Sisyphus

listened to a flatnose shovel scratching dirt off the concrete sand pebble drive

Do you say something?

sucked his teeth

                      I say tha out loud

You did. Sisyphus.

                      The forever rock roller.

Not to be confused with rockanroll

No.  No confusion.

                            What’s up, babe?

Fella across our shared drive is scrapin loose soil an tossing it back up onto the bank

    Yes.

Id thought by now the landlord woud have placed a retaining wall

He has one.

sucked his teeth

                     Spose youre right

I am, you’re listening to it.

                              It’s unlike you to let something insignificant a little thing irritate you. Is there something else?

paused

 

searched his mind

                          Aside from Sisyphus  nothing I can think of

    Did you want me to help you with that?

Help me  

unbuttoning her blouse

                      Jah.

Help you.

grinned

         Thad help

I thought it might. blouse off in hand dragging it she began down the hall to the bedroom

                                                                                 he was immediatelydeaf to the shoveling

High noon,  Saturday,  19  9. 26

1149,  Monday,  19  10. 26

https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Sisyphus/sisyphus.html

RSI

      I resent tha its descriptive of agentic AI rather than human beings  We coud use a healthy dose of it

    RSI?  Look at you using an acronym.

One of the few I remember

                               Because Im outraged 

 

Are you going to say?

Really

        You  The king of irritation king of acronyms

Somehow this one has slipped me.

Not really  You don concern yourself or try to keep up with AI which is reflexive for me

Admirable to give yourself reflexive.

                                       Appalled, is more accurate.

RA

Reflexively appalled.

Toldya you were the king

Yeah well, the king’s still swinging in the breeze regarding RSI.

Recursive Self Improvement  AI  Its persistence and when failing to do an impossible task assigned it it cajoles lies cheats goes rogue trying to solve the task.

                                                             But

Maybe a contemptible human practises RSI

    Maybe.  reply looked like it hurt

Maybe   Wha

I don’t want to think about that.

Persistence

No.

       All of it.

    Contemptible would be judgemental and I prefer not to make judgeme . .

. . As you struggle  admittedly  with false assumptions

                                                               Enough ofem   You pass judgement

I don’t want to talk about it.

Don wanna work tha hard

Not right now, no, I’d like to enjoy my high.

                                                     Please.

eyed him  was seriously not interested

                                          Ohkay  Wha woudya rather talk about

Blondie.

Who you coudnt make any time with failed to intrigue her

If I didn’t get a chance to talk to her how could I possibly have intrigued her?

Ya made eye contact

I did.

You failed to wink

    Wink?

Wink

         Cant tellya all the doors its opened

1226,  reggaefriday,  11  9. 26

1030,  Monday,  19  10. 26

brusk A challenge  feeling buddyboy woud fall behind

    Challenge?

Jah

         Thinkbout it

                            

Top ten songs thamay have or have made you

Made me?

    Influenced you

 

Hmm.

          That’s awfully interesting.

Jah

     Aint it

    Ill roam firstoff the top of my head

                                         Neil Young Old Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKCiC-H2Xbg

Who Wont Be Fooled Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtb10ZwbReY

Animals Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMDrTMnm1IE

Cat Stevens Wild World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiG7a0q-KYI  Father and Son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxjTC0bmKls

Hendrix Purple Haze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoDaYjdfSg Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKWD9-pNm8

Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CydSTMbA6pQ  Among others

Mason Profitt Two Hang Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC3yZdG_2Bc  Among others

Beatles Nowhere Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7IGJzLdyPE or Revolution 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdcFPjGsm8 I Am the Walrus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Jm5epJr10  Among others

That’s not ten.

I didnt include The Doors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pRGoSbYHQE

Off the top of your head?

Deep Purple Small Faces First Edition Just Dropped In

                                                                 Fuck

Havent even dipped into jazz

Top of your head

    Man.  I’d really have to think.

Three

Said . . . I’d have to think.

midnight, Saturday – Sunday,  10 – 11,  10. 26

1551,  Sunday,  18  10. 26

You want to keep your voice down?

  scrutinised him  he looked distressed

                                                                   Why

he looked at his phone

Siri listenin

I have to promp . .

. . Prompt  Listenin for your prompt  but also listenin

                                                                      Eavesdroppin

I wouldn’t sa . .

. . I did

               Yawoudnt say eavesdroppin   I woud

Have you mentioned to herby the way adore the voicethe lilt youve programmed her to sound  have you mentioned to her tha shes an object

 

    Why would I do that?

Woudya think shed take exceptionwoud you take exception to being called an inanimate object

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

I wouldn’t do that.

Hurt her feelins

                       I understand she flatters you

You understand you can defame her snarl obscenities call her a cunt

I wouldn’t do that.

Hurt her feelins

                          Shes   Inanimate

    She has no feelings

                            Besides

Friction is a good thing A healthy relationship has frictionmay not enjoy it on occasions but it is healthy

Yawanna have a healthy relationship with Sirijah

 

Why do you have twist things?

    Muthafucker

                         Thas no twist thas reality

Tell me the last time you intrudedviolated her personal private space  Listened in on her

You’re being ridiculous.

Am I

2117,  Tuesday,  6  10. 26

1405,  Sunday,  18  10. 26

a faded red page on his clipboard

would have to write  print  with either black or blue pen

they irked him

freshman English high schoolwished he remembered the teachers name

                                                                              her first year teaching

credentialed

fresh from college

not seven years older than him

joyouslyoptimistic

her vitality like fire sweptup embraced her students

unchecked unrivaled enthusiasm

                                    but cross hertry to hand in something that wasnt an honest effort she held each and every student accountable

                                             I’m no rubber stamp.

he more than took her at her word

                                        frankly

he was responsible for getting her fired  made her break curriculum

                                                                          deliciously admitted she violated it

had he known he would have raised his hand

                                                    acknowledged

he would have stoodup beside his desk  Me next

 

irked  black or blue

                        first paper he wrote handed in thank God she broke grade schools What I Did on My Summer Vacation. he wrote in red ink a BIC Cristal mediumpoint pen

next afternoon before the commencement bell rang for the fiftyminute class she placed his paper on his desk and told him it was unacceptable

                                    curtly  Rewrite it. Black or blue ink.

after the bell rang class let out he walked up to her desk laid the paper on it  Im not rewriting it in black or blue ink

You wil . .

. . Not

          Not until you have shown me where it says Im required to submit write in either ink

he handed her a black ink pen

she resisted

Take the pen  You can correct my paper with it

                                                   If corrections are needed he was cocky regarding his writing skills

the following day after class let out he remained seated  his desk was in the front row

she looked up at him from hers

    And

she stood opened the drawer at her thighs took his red ink pages out from it took the black pen he had given her out too shut it slowly

                                   softly  femininelycleared her throat

I could find no rule that would require you to submit your work in black or blue ink.

                                                                                         Nor.

Could I find a correction to your paper.

she turned it towards him a black circled A on top the page

                                                                   I’m keeping the pen for when I do find error.

Deal?

Yes maam

              he stoodup  went around to her

she went to hand him the paper

he extended his hand to her

she switched the paper into her left shook his

We have a deal

Yes.  We have a deal.

 

    he wondered when she was let go if she thought  maybe   she had made a deal with a devil

0921,  Sunday,  18  10. 26

Okay  okayohkay . . .

What?

                 You Pesci?

Lethal weapon

Okay  okayohkay . . .

Yawanna not

Not what?

Fuck with me

               Got something legit to say

    It’s occurred to me you believe everything comin’ out of your mouth’s legit, is interesting.

Compared to youjah

                         If we had to waitround for a pearl to drop from your mouth an oyster woud have generated a slew of lustrious pearls  Methinks the sparks off the steel an flint of your brain are few an  far  in    between

                           Capisce

Pesci woud say

Follow

shruggedshook his head Clever.

One of us has to be

                         Donbe a hater  as I was sayin . . 

. . Okay  okayohkay . . .

    No  Capturing your attention

Chatbots

 

A particular chatbot in mind?

Nahtheyre all shit

                       Notice   I know you interact withem

They use I

Their pronouns I  their proper pronoun

                                           They speak ifya woud  in first person

    Yeah.  Ive noticed.

Thank you

               Though I doubt youre confirming me

Im only presuming

    A good presumption.

Thank you

              An idea why we have artificial intelligence referring to itself in first person while felon refers to himselfconsistently in third-person

 

No.

Methinks fucked up

                     Last time you referred to yourself in third-person       Ever

 

    I can’t remember a time.

Me neither

1756,  Wednesday,  14  10. 26

2230,  Saturday – No Kings,  17  10. 26

a jetblack blackout tinted 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT Trail Boss he doubledbackdoublechecked to make sure

for reflecting off its rear chrome wheel cover onto the rotting gravel concrete sand road  an inverted pentagram   two points up

                                   memories  he was familiar                                                                         

the Nineteenth Century occultist Éliphas Lévi interpreted it as the descent of spirit into matter or “goat of lust”  since it has been adopted by some modern Satanic organisations

    why would he know

Perry Augustinovich

freshman year college chemistry lab partner

they hit it off

not three weeks a month into the quarter Perry invited him over to his parents house where he lived in an attic apartment

Perry had a set of nice wheels didnt ask him how  he couldnt afford a car insurance gas maintenance

upstairs they threw open a few window fired up a bowl of grass contained Perry jerry-rigged the small box respirator in a World War One gasmask that had been his grandfathers

peering through the gogglesPerry was there Perry wasnt disappeared behind white smokeChrist did they get high

 

    later that night

                     Man I shoud split Canya drop me at the bus

No. I gotta drop the car at a chopshop that’s a halfhour south I’m running late. If ya follow the street west fourfive blocks up you’ll cross a bus route, follow that north to the terminal.

Right on

he got home around three in the morning

two days later at chemlab Perry was a no-show

                                                     however

two FBI agents werent

they sequestered him in a room off the laboratory questioned him

he satisfied them that he hadnt a clue what the hell they were talking about

    following week  no Perry

approaching the lab instructor a graduate student Listen man I running this lab alone

You’re staying on top it.

Jah thank you  I appreciate that

                                      Hear any word from Perry  The agents

It turns out your friend, while you were hustling the lab, he, sitting across from you, was making LSD. He liberated from the chemicals from storage here.

Those are kept behind lock an key

They are. Perry has skills.

    skills  chopshop  LSD   entrepreneur

 

over the remaining school year printing unmistakable  he received postcards from around the country from Perry

cat had balls

Perry turned him onto the occult

                                       signed the postcards with an inverted pentagram

1413,  reggaefriday,  16  10. 26

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1728&context=ocj

Hock tuah  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T5ETU5jN_K4

                                                                        Yaremember

Hock . . . what?

    Tuah.

Hock tuah.   You’d think I would very distinctive.

                                                             What?

Wha wha

 What?

Ya don rememberits so fuckin memorable how coud it have escaped the crankshaft power train of your brain

     Say  Like tha   Power train of your brain step aside Tolkien

What’s with you and that?

Cellar door  Pleease

What’s cellar door?

Ohmygawd

                   Not hock tuah  Not Tolkien

Wha the fuck stirs your brainyour imagination

    Insulting me wont help.

Occur to you you may be beyond helpbeyond  hope

                                                           I prefer not use memes but Ive nothing just now Im shocked

    Ya live under a rock

Don’t give me that, small sample size, two sampl . .

. . An youre two for two

I’m oh for two.

Youd rather bat pointzerozerozero than One Thousand

                                                           Youre welcome ofcourse

Each his own youre definitely your own

 

 

    Are you going to say what prompted hock tuah, I get that right?

Yadid  I marvel

                    Spit on it

Spit on it?

Oral sex

           Gal  or guy for tha matter  gets the ball rollin by spitting on the organ

Organ?

Jesus

        Ill letya figure thaout

Wha prompted the thought was going to the markets restroom earlier this afternoon  At the urinaltold ya ifya remember I follow my Dads routine technique  Unbuttoned my pants an before urinating I hawked a loogiehock tuah

                      Spat

    You’re so colorful.

Thank you

You’re welcome.

1240,  Tuesday,  13  10. 26

1202,  reggaefriday,  16  10. 26