Flook Skunderthoon

Flook Skunderthoon

@skunderthoon.bsky.social

I'm from the Bay Area, now live elsewhere. I'm old

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I forget why I opened this app or what I was going to write but I remember you giving a camel an apple when we got a tour of the back of the zoo. Its prehensile lips were rather goofy, I could not imagine riding the beast.

My brother taught me how to shoplift and break into schools In the theatre he told me to scream “Fuck” while the other kids were cheering. He died at the age of 41 from AIDS, heroin addiction, and alcoholic organ failure. He was gay and hung out in gay bath houses in San Francisco in the 80s.

We were sitting smoking when Ron came in with his Basenji breed dog, “White Elk.” We started calling the dog Sperm Elk, semen elk, whipped cream elk and Pus Elk. Ron left. The next day we found out he had been on acid, spent some time pondering our cruelty. Really, it wasn’t mean spirited 1/2

Ron was in EST, where people went for personal development seminars it might have been like a precursor to Scientology- anyway Ron became a pompous asshole(more than he already was) He would approach and say “I have something to say.” Instead of just stating to talk and using facial expressions 2/3

I had an appointment with a sleep doctor whose office is at the huge medical center. I went without any support of walking stick for the first time. There are boatloads of hallways. I did it. I felt weak a couple of times but didn’t stop or lean on anything. I guess there’s a possibility of hope.

Oh yeah I’m better off than dead, better than a rooster on a hot tin shed. Skating on a road of glass beneath the famous Matisse overpass in the city where we are taxed for our pity and harassed for our compassion. Oh yeah, Can’t touch me, I’m better off than dead.

Those long, lanky steps with your rectilinear pelvis conducting the groove as the see-thru skateboards of your entourage set the mood for the Brood, too close to be a clan, but you are their pop deity, no one can touch you but your fans cry for a chance to smell you or touch your bare arm.

La-di-da yelled the owner of the folderol machine. Dude was way too loud but I needed one of his chocolate chip fortune cookies. His wife wrote the fortunes which were invariably clever, wise, insightful, and funnier than a chimp with a banjo.

While scratching an itch I began to twitch My brain began to slide My eyes I wished to hide as I teetered on the rim of a Grand Canyon of uncertainty wishing only for a sturdy burro to haul me and my various disorders away from the brink.

My sister could shrink me so small I could ride on a paper airplane. I got so small I could juggle butter molecules. She made a mistake bringing me back and that’s why I have such huge feet. No hard feelings. She’s not a witch. She’s an elementary particle technician.

Jackie and the Rhythm Sluice 1st album; Snowbound in Hell Tracklist 1. You rabbit snared my heart 2. Lack of Integrity Blues 3. Alley cat with a baseball bat 4. Meet Me in the Shed 5. Art Deco Drollery 6. An Embarrassment of Glitches 7. Too Clever for My Own Damn Good 8. Like a Swollen Thumb

On the one side, we are threatened by rapacious, syphilitic, barbaric, rabid wild boars who are stupid, cruel, greedy and have zero heart. But it’s okay- we are protected by a fierce tribe of lawyer rabbits