"...high call volumes..."

 don't they know that we know that the phrase "we are experiencing high call volumes" is just a b.s. way to stall the process and bide them more time? 

it's a robot!  it. is. a lie. 

* is this truly our best?

* if these two knuckleheads are the best that we can muster, then the joke is truly on ourselves. 

b114 (5.15-1.2023): she still haunts my dreams

she still haunts my dreams ^[1]

by joal

 

she still haunts my dreams

still f---s with me (at night)

still complex (it seems)

still leaves (without a fight)

                                                   …in my dreams

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·        last night, it was a weird car situation (she was driving, ineptly). 

·        she was abducted (willingly) by a group of hippie-savages. 

·        while i was relieved that i was rid of her, she was/is still/present… in my mind.

 

for whatever reason, she still holds a place (in my heart & mind).              

 

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[1] martino, j. (5.15-1.23). she still haunts my dreams. book 114: untitled.  © 2023 by joal martino. 

b114 (5.12-1.2023): bent-over (yet again)

bent-over (yet again) [i]
by notta d. e. mocrat

we strike-out-looking (often)
a game of ‘let’s pretend’
it’s all about the ratings
bent-over (yet again)
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·       the d_ckless democrats (once again) concede… allowing the republican train-wreck a platform, thereby gas-lighting his base into m(ass) adoration.

·       the d_ckless democratic party that can do no better but to wheelchair-out a mumbling, old geezer – as the best of their best!

·       what scares most non-republicans (self-included) isn’t that mr. t. is (in any way) ept… but that his opposition is completely inept!
 
in the end (as always) both parties (in the two party-system) win.  they are, after all, on the same team.
 
you and i, however, not.
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[i] martino, j. (5.12-1.2023). bent-over (yet again). book 114: untitled. © 2023 by joal martino.

b114 (5.11-1.2023): just stop watching sh--

just stop watching sh-- [i]
by notta w. atcher

it won’t change the outcome more than anything like this
why give it an audience?
just stop watching sh--
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·       otherwise, we become it.
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[i] martino, j. (5.11-1.2023). just stop watching sh--. book 114: untitled. © 2023 by joal martino. 

b114 (5.6-1.2023): no more sbs

no more sbs [i]
by n. o. moore

no more sbs
no more texts or phone
no more sbs
no more faking moans
no more sbs
worse than all the rest
that was a close shave [ii]
no more sbs
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·       in the original, “no more texts” was equally good, as “no more tests.”

it feels really, really, really good to be rid of the sbs.
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[i] martino, j. (5.6-1.2023). no more sbs. book 114: untitled. © 2023 by joal martino.

[ii] reference to book 113: close shave.