Triangle Gal

                                                           TICK TOCK

   It’s time to go away for the cookie clock. If we stay, who knows what will happen. John tells me the FBI might be interested. I told John that I talk to the FBI on Facebook. They would let me know right away but they haven’t said boo.
   I am going away but I just don’t know where yet. I’m waiting for the cookie clock to give me a clue. Today there were birds in my hair. I wondered if that was some kind of hint. I first noticed something at the dentist’s office. The dentist was telling me that the Free Market was so great because we could get Maine Lobsters in California. I didn’t argue with him because his hands were in my mouth. There is a mirror in the dentist’s waiting room. I glanced at it when I was leaving and noticed my hair was moving. Outside, I looked at my reflection in a picture window of a shoe store and saw the birds. They were green. There were seven of them and they were looking at the shoes in the window. Looking back now, I am thinking, green birds, green birds. Were they there to suggest I go to a place where there are green birds like Africa or South America or Indonesia?  Then I realized there aren't any green birds there anymore. When they noticed me looking at them in the reflection, they flew away. Should I fly somewhere?
   Then I saw her strutting down the avenue, Triangle Gal in the flesh stepping out in purple boots. She had a sad look in her eyes. She was singing. "Tock tick, chocolate chip. Tick tock, where's my glock?"
   I smiled and waived to her. We always have a fun back and forth. I asked her if she had seen John. She told me he had been arrested. The FBI had broken down his door when he was in the shower. His house and all his possessions had been confiscated and sold. Triangle Gal had been at the auction. She bought his library. I thanked her for that. We walked down the street slowly together in silent respect.
   She took my hand. “Did you hear they would make pornography illegal?”
   I laughed. “Then what is the FBI going to watch?”
   “They have us to watch.”
   "Pornography will never be illegal."
   "Did you ever think it would be legal to murder your fellow citizens by raising the price of drugs they need to stay alive until they bankrupt themselves and die? "
   "Steal everything from you then kill you."
   "Did you ever think your food would be filled with poison?"
   "Steal your ability to feed yourself then poison you to death."
   "Did you ever think you would drown yourself in debt in order to get a degree that gets you a job you have to commute to five or six hours a day to earn wages that drown you in debt?"
   "Enslaved from birth to death."
   "Did you ever think that your life with your loved ones would be nothing but bits and pieces?"
   "Spinning on a carousel grasping at tiny flashes trying to make life worth living."
   "Did you ever think that 97% of the world's climate scientists agree that humans cause global warming?"
   "We have only a dozen years left."
   "Can you believe that humanity will do nothing in the face of our own extinction?"

    “Beat it to the punch with World War 111.”   

    "No time to think.

    “Watch out for the poo poo.”

    “Just enough time to drink."

    “Watch out for the needles.”
    "No time for pornography."

    “Watch out for the upchuck.”

    "Time to get back to work."
   "Tock tick, chocolate chip. Tick tock, where's my glock?"
   "It's time to go away for the cookie clock."

   For Amanda.

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   Rick Hill