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Featured Writer Jim Meirose
BACK ‘N BABCI’S HOUSE-KITCHEN
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I mean, funny; funny how the child was so drawn [pillo] to the notion of uh uh |Infinity| [Party!] even when small back’n Babci’s house-kitchen, sat down ‘t the table where there’s a can, with a cow, with a tipped over out-spilt can with a cow, with a tipped over out-spilt can with a cow with a tipped over out-spilt can with a cow, all the way out ‘o this notion of |Infinity| [Party!] then then at t’ same ‘me ‘s that nearly or almost then th’-th’ if two solids approach each other, how close can they come without touching, but, oh yeah well half of that’s close but not touching so hey hey you’ve been caught in a lie no no okay maybe so but that’s as close as they can without touching, but oh yeah well half of that’s close but not touching so hey hey you’ve been caught in a lie no no okay, maybe so, but that’s as close as they can without touching but ‘ ‘d ‘nd there’s it’s again that notion of |Infinity| [Party!] and there you go dancin’ down stupid-street haff’ ‘again, Sister ConCorsico can’t you larn nuthin’ not nuthin’ boot th’ notion of |Infinity| [Party!] an ‘f ya thing’s flat’s bad dee-niff then we’’’ bat yah enoutha’ hey hey POP try this for a pepper, try this one, yah, this heck ho splat, Filly! By all’s Kukla Fran and Ollie har’ she blows [Jes’ like Wackelticlevania!] each car’s got a car crammed inside. Which also has a car crammed inside. Which also there’s a can has a car with a cow crammed inside. Which with a tipped if two solids approach each with a tipped over other how close can also has a they come without touching? But over out-spilt oh yeah well half of can car crammed that’s close but not inside with a touching. So hey hey cow which also you’ve been caught in a has over out-spilt lie? No no okay maybe can a car crammed so but that’s as close [pillo] with a cow as they can without touching. No no inside which also but oh yeah well half with a tipped of that’s close but not has a car touching. So hey hey over out-spilt can 33 you’ve been caught in a crammed inside. Which lie? No no okay maybe with a cow so but that’s as close also has a as they can without touching with a tipped. So, hey hey you’ve been car crammed inside caught in a lie. No over out-spilt no okay maybe so but can which that’s as close as they also have with can without touching. But oh, a oh yeah well half of cow a car that’s close but not touching crammed inside with so hey hey you’ve been a tipped. Which caught in a lie not also has over no okay maybe so, c’est but out-spilt can that’s as close as they a car with can without touching. But oh, a cow, crammed yeah well half of that’s inside, which with close but not touching, so, a tipped also has. Hey hey you’ve been caught a over out-spilt in a lie. No no can car crammed okay maybe so but that’s inside with a as close as they can cow. Which also without touching but oh yeah has with a well half of that’s close tipped a car but not touching crank, so hey crammed over out-spilt hey you’ve been caught in a can inside a lie.
No no? Okay maybe which ah oh so see see that is |Infinity| [Party!].
Oh. Yah? S’ that’s how |Infinity|?[Party!]
Yes yes th’s |Infinity| [Party!] so—see how bad it can get dear?
I—uh—
No! Yes! See how really really really bad it can—GET?
No?
ouch
{ guess you do really got a damned pony for brains eh eh }
About the writer:
Jim Meirose‘s short fiction has appeared in leading journals, and his novels include Sunday Dinner with Father Dwyer (Optional Books), Understanding Franklin Thompson (JEF), Le Overgivers au Club de la Résurrection (Mannequin Haus), and No and Maybe – Maybe and No (Pski’s Porch).
Image: Händler mit Krügen by August Macke (1887-1914). Watercolor. 10.2 x 7.8 inches. 1914. Public domain.
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