... think of it think of it ... he says to me the other in me ... right there in the middle of the street ... the other in me ... yes once in a while we harangue each other ... he & me ... or whatever name we go under ... Sam & Ace ... B one & B two or is it B plus & B minus ... but whatever the names we do talk to each other when we need to ... even if we would prefer not to ... and so he says to me ... but think of it think of it ... what over the years we did ... we did simply for our own diversion ... ah talk to me about having fun ... I never laughed so much in my life ... as a way to play ... how you like that ... to enjoy one another's company ... ah come on say it direct ... to screw each other ... long distance ... yes that's what it was ... and me all the while thinking it was from the reverse of farness ... as old Sam once put it ... to compete with each other ... damn right to compete ... and remember ... always ... always the small one winning the race ... to outdo one another as jazz saxophonists will ... or as old farts in decline do ... dueling at sea with their fishing poles ... remember ... think of it think of it ... how me & you ... and you & me ...enjoyed one another's company ... in the great vacuum of creation ... to drive off the freaking despair of being writers ... that's a good one ... writers ... ah yeah writers ... scribblers rather ... noodlers ... to do something that meant precisely nothing ... absolutely nothing ... as you in me & me in you confronted the necessity to act in the face of the impossibility to act in spite of the obligation to act ... you go make sense out of that ... go ahead ... you to move now ... you to play ... get your fat ass going and stop throwing all that shit my way about diversion ...

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