Reading Ulysses in Montana #369

Oh yes, it was a doozie, but not in the way a flood of floozies would hold koozies.

Crossing the Rubicon is not as easy as you think, given the propensity of window sills to enter the realm of the obnoxious: hand-in-hand, step-by-step, In-n-Out. Outrageous burgers flirted with skeins of mice and mental drive-through orders, leaving off the low-down hoedown with hay as the only insulating factor, put up in the barn a little too late to matter, but matter enough to roll around in when the fit takes you. A burger for your thoughts, she said. I’ll take that, he said. You have some hay stuck in your hair, she said. Klondike-547, he said. One wonders the wonder of ice and various properties of water at different temperatures and pressures, twice by the Pacific.

The dozen woozies of outrage reached a fever pitch on the stage and in the cinema, but the hay rick beckoned and beckons still.


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15 thoughts on “Reading Ulysses in Montana #369

  1. Matthew Laney January 7, 2025 / 8:29 am

    Dang! Grilled love in a “convenience” box.

    • Rick Mallery January 7, 2025 / 12:40 pm

      Better than my usual inconvenience “box”.

      • Matthew Laney January 7, 2025 / 12:41 pm

        I’d Yelp that!

  2. Elizabeth January 7, 2025 / 6:27 pm

    Putting the “free” back in free write, one post at a time. So much fun to read.

    • Rick Mallery January 7, 2025 / 8:32 pm

      Thank you, Elizabeth! It’s so much fun to write too! 😀

  3. niasunset January 8, 2025 / 3:30 am

    exactly so much fun, so much! My mind jumping from stage to stage, from a layer of words to words,…after all, a piece of the plain cake of scientific curiosity remains in my mind like a thin slice of a cake, “One wonders the wonder of ice and various properties of water at different temperatures and pressures, twice by the Pacific.” and I am going to search, learning, reading, smiling, I have never seen any written piece like that, really imagination of all these words standing on an amazing stage of a film, theather,…etc. Should be great fun while writing,… Thank you Dear Delving Yardbarker, Love, nia

    • Rick Mallery January 8, 2025 / 6:31 am

      Along the fine road to invigorated electrodes, we meet, we part, we conglomerate a furious anthem of ants!

      • niasunset January 8, 2025 / 7:31 am

        Interesting, but there is something more interesting that this. Do you know ants do not have ears. Ants have the incredible ability to “hear” ground vibrations, even though they have no ears! Ants “listen” by feeling vibrations from the ground through their feet, and eye-less ants such as the driver ant species can communicate by using their antennae! Plus, they can send chemical signals (called pheromones) released through their body to send messages to other ants! They send out warnings when danger’s near, leave trails of pheromones leading to food sources! Also I am thinking of the invigorated electrodes too, what type of eclectrodes, active electrodes or inert electrodes. They are different… And the question is “who are this “we” in here… (it is really fun, great fun, I hope for you too) Thanks, Love, nia

      • Rick Mallery January 8, 2025 / 8:45 pm

        Ant and bees are amazing! You are awesome! Who are we? We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Shakespeare is awesome!) 🙂

      • niasunset January 9, 2025 / 12:38 am

        Yes, ant and bees are amazing creatures. And I love Shakespeare, no one came like him. This is really awesome. Thank you dear Rick, I just try the fun in your way, not well as yours but I enjoy being in here, in your imaginated words world… Have a nice day, Love, nia

  4. Violet Lentz January 8, 2025 / 8:48 am

    I went and read the explanation for this style, and I am in love with the creativity it has fostered in your writing. I will not purjor myself by saying I understand it, but it gives me a nudge in a direction I had never thought about going. Reinterpretation of that which is nearly impossible to understand in its current form.

    • Rick Mallery January 8, 2025 / 2:34 pm

      Thanks, Violet! At the very least it’s a lot of fun! 🤩

  5. JLakis January 9, 2025 / 8:03 pm

    I am picky af, but I really dug that.

    • Rick Mallery January 9, 2025 / 8:15 pm

      Glad to hear it. Thanks! 😀

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