19 MAY 26

Yali and Patience are straight-up goons throughout the full day... doesn’t matter if we’re discussing diameters of circles or automatic flour mills of the 18th century or asteroids... they are full-time fighting dawn to dusk and they don’t care who they’re taking out in that fireball self-destruction of sibling squabble-ry...

Around the time Patience squawks thunderously... “HE LICKED ME!!”... accompanied by Yali’s buffoonery cackles... it’s time for a little separation of state from state... and they are so removed from each other...

There’s a brief calm in the middle somewhere I think... probably because Patience is listening to Taylor Swift and journaling in her room and Yali is mixing blue body paint in the bathroom for enormous chest tattoos... or something like these things...

And Puck is in his room with a plate of grilled roast beef sandwiches and cucumber wedges while his fat cat snoozes in a bulbous wad beside him... who had at least found a little exercise the previous evening when Puck returned from the gym post-eleven o’clock after being pulled over for one of the quirky headlights once again spitting off in my Civic... and proceeded to chase this porky Cheese-ball around the house in big circles while pre-midnight bacon sizzled on the stove...

Then before both currently licensed vehicles split in a light dripping rain east and west that afternoon... Mama takes a little chocolate chip break...