On ...." The freak show
and it's passing thru
the Valley of the
Shadow of Death "
Part 40
...Dan's first foray into LA,
Arabial's Taxi,
108 beers on tap...

...a dark bar

Dan's eyes adjusted to the darkness and got wide.
It lay before him, a vastness of beer. Much beer.
He came into focus admist the beer...Much beer.
The natives would have said, "Many beers, many beers..."
The friendly face emerged from the red gloom...
" Howdy friend...", said the glowing slick haired
black t-shirted bartender, Raul..." ...dude, we've
108 beers on tap...we got's 216
beers in bottles...
What can I get you man....? "...
Dan smiles.

Stumblin'.
Dan stumbled out into the hazy mid day light
of LA near blind. " Wheeeeooooo, I'm half blind...",
said a sloshed Dan. He was in Micro brew bliss,
toodling along La Supulveta Blvd... Thinking left, but going right
in a Deshutes fog..." Oh ! pour me another Mirror Pond, Raul...."
he mumbles crossing into the street...

...Arabial, a taxi driver from Pakistan, toodles along
La Supulveta Blvd. hummmming. He was working a second
shift that day an uneventful day, until Arabial's path crossed Dan's...

...Dan crossed out into the street with southern California hops,
pure water and hazy bliss on his mind,
Arabial had time to yell !!!Allah Akbar !!!
as an inebriated Dan rolled over the hood... then the windshield,
up and over the yellow taxi lite, Dan rolled... thinking,
" ...pour me another like the last one Raul, ya know man ,
the beers of LA stand alone in this weird world..."
he said, rolling down the back window, then trunk...

...Arabial was still screaming something as Dan lands upon the black,
hard La Supulveta Blvd. asphalt rolling rolling....
He ends up on his back staring up at the cloudless
LA sky..." ...the last time I saw you you looked
so much older you famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder..."
Dan hummed thinking he'd just seen a whisp of a cloud float by...
Arabial walks up. looking down upon a loaded Dan humming
Lenoard Cohen tunes...
...He said:
" !!! YOU ARE A CRAZY MAN A VERY VERY CRAZY MAN...!!!
OH LET ME HELP YOU UP....
WHAT HAS ENTERED YOUR MIND ???
YOU ARE A VERY CRAZY MAN
LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO MY TAXI !!!!!
COME ON PLEASE GET INTO THE TAXI
YOU CRAZY CRAZY MAN ",
yelled a panicked Arabial.

Arabial took Dan to the hospital an was
was found to be a very resiliant crazy drunken man.
" HE IS A CRAZY MAN A VERY CRAZY MAN ....
Arabial said to the nurse at the counter....

to be continued....

Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

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