Life's Like That.
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Life's Like That.
By
Danny E. Allen
@2024 Danny E. Allen
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The story interplay of scenes played-out and eulogized in tone, temperant and tenacity. The processive wonders of place, people, thought and action. A relevant and reality of people, personage and intrinsic intimate knowledge and ultimate wisdom.
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Everyday life, is just that; a series of surreals and subjections... Of endeavors and understandings of purposes, purports and precis-propagations forwarded, forged and followed-through... ...It's “full of observations, ideas, and reasons; as imaginations and motivations... But also as “ideals”, and interests; understandings and intentions. But in its efforts-self-certifies, supplicates, secures and settles-upon with a significance...
---“And that is life.”--
...Dawn-arose, over the outlying-neighborhood. Street-lights, went-out. Dorales Smith, was in his-uniform; as a bus-caddy; smelling of evening-Vermuthe. …He drove-on the midnight-shift. -An elder-women walked-across the intersection, in front of the 26 seat-bus. A GMC. Paul and Patty, lay-in their bedroom-cottage, awakened by their 2-cats and a-dog, whom wanted-”out” into the yard. The winds picked-up along the street-in the opposite-direction where-there were now-mostly, commercialized. From early-70s to the late-60s Fred Friedman, was a veteran of the now long ago-boom... Now, it resided as-in both offstreet-residences; and ended, as Main street-businesses. ...Trees, almost-gone still lived-robust, abreast; and as besettlement...
The sunn had-shone, in the Greek day-restaurant where workers prepped-lunches and dinners of entrees, subs, beer and Cocktails. They'd have to have cooking-energy and supplies-for coming the crowd... Supplies, were to be delivered-with a delivery-truck of processing, food-service. Money, was being made through-out the month. ...The restaurant was respectable, and a resource-by the community. As the sun-glimmered, school-buses arrived to pick-up Magnet-schoolers; then a 45-minute drive-to then walk-home. The library had its many-attendees, neverfully carrying worthy-books but chilldrens' inexpensives... The street postal-box, sat-on the across-corner. The Orthodoxy Catholic-Church sat directly-across the street on that-side was especially, well-cared for... The declining-streets took you East by Main Street, or took you South to further-commerce. Tanya Smithes, was 17 and about to graduate... She wanted to be a OBY/GYN, but didn't have funds; so probably, a school-teacher or librarian. She had good-grades, but they were not enough to carry her through college.
The many businesses-”hierglyphs” of advertising, were cluttered and obtuse. Resigns and designs, went-on along the road mostly, interested by the novaled and moneyed. The sunlight came-in at a constant bright-speed. The arena of the 8-blocks consortium, in its easements and desires. That idiom and inspection, was Brady's neighborhood. There were off-shoots, mixed-ups of, as accordances and accounts. The engineered and intertwined-devotions, derivings and demands... The sweet-Maple flowed-in the early morning-air. The normal-winds brushed the park, up the street; and birds sang in its near-by trees. That the streets, along the pavillion both-sides lead to solemn-neighborhoods. Alternately, Benjamin Pauls Senior-High was a popular-school; that offered-Sports and the Arts. The neighborhood leading up-crossways, to the school-complex was set-upon an embankment; all the way to the block-before Main Street. Clareton Bank sat-upon the right-to Main. A lot set-across, and then buildings going-South.
It was a thoroughfare, being rebuilt and restored; with an eclectic-edge. The 3 storey-buildings were originally apartments, then became local-businesses. The cars and trucks rode from North to South, in a swept-trajectary. The intervening side-streets, acted as relief to the constant-traffic. ...Drivers, knew the area had made consistent-comprises. Some were store-managers, local-workers and willing confirmed-shoppers. Then, the true-travellers acted and enacted; to destinations, just noticing the high-lights. Day was fading-into night. The area-birds flew through-out the peninsula, flying-along with traffic. Den Dinde, was arriving... He and his friend had rode the bus to his-place, but now he was alone and went to his-apartment in solitude. As young-people, were out trying to squeeze-fun in their long school-day. The next-bus arrives 50-minutes later; Steve Willingson got-off to visit his step-mother, nearby.
He wanted it to be a “surprise”. He was still-youthful, but worked-uptown at the near southside-restaurant. He was making good-money. He figured after her-death he'd move to the Carolinas; and work as a delivery driver, were he'd make his own business-reward... Flashing-by in the still-dim streetlights, was the Tyler-family. A young-father, who'd moved-East out of company-capacity. He wanted to be away from too-cold and snowiness North. It was January. In typical-fashion snowy-slush was probably, the street; car after car often-grounded and grinded-it in... The ongoing-cars, were extra-cool air-blew. It was the days of fragility. Everyone knew what to expect. The radio-called for icy conditions for days... But in a true-warmly, tempered-week would prevail. The average-day, was for most a schedule of simple-work, duties and demands. People, workers and friends were active all-day.
[Periods] and possibilities, stood and structured-dimensions, designs and directives-derivings. It was a postured-theory, and theme. “Just” and adjudicated-people, walking the streets would arrive to their destinations by thoughts and “art”... That arriving, meant-success and satisfaction... ...Astute-reasoning, would prove-true; or lead-to other-things... A selective-circumstance, ceded and surmised. There were necessary-tasks, certain-doings and goings; in a-proof and provision. Essential and intention-made project, and premise. A proposal and principle-by esoteric, and engaging. That the flight-of-birds, were as a proposal; gone-in, as intention and exaction. Objective and obligate-set upon situation and sincerity. As the clouds-came from the South the traffic-slowed. Mrs. Dubert, the senior-aunt; who-lived in a nice-neighborhood, took to life of by being-cared for and vigils-from family-members. She was genuinely, able and caring; she drove a car around town, a Pontiac; which she bought-new.
...She was a quaint-neighbor lady, who cared for others. Her neighborhood was safe, and others watched-out for her. Her 3-nephews were County-Sheriff deputies. So they made sure she was kept secured and sanctual. She was out and about almost-everyday. Going to the senior day-care to play Rummie with friends and cohorts... It was especially, comfortable. She liked-cooking and being around-friends. She was married-twice, with her step-children; making, loving and caring implyings. They made a nice extended-family. The street-paving outfront went East, West down a block and a half; was Main, half a-block up the High school sat as a cross-ways. Establishment and esteem, were everyone's expectations-to life. The animal-pets, came-out on lonely, nicer-weather days... Smokey; a longhair-Siamese, set catty-to Timmy; a Maine Coon cat, who adored his-owner and just ignored-”him”. In the alley-outback had a large-Lab, who barked and-created a reason to be kept-indoors. ...The back-area, many seedy-variations, were allowed to grow and thrive; squirrels, birds, mice and other earthy-creatures, abided in conversiveness and bliss...
The alleys, were hidden-reasons; where traffic and exposure were a-solution. But it was a smart unfolding-originality. A life of inveritable-instance, and insouciance. Where prefix and prevail, were allowed to go on in-disrepute. Honesty and innocence, was in a way its way its way to register and reprove itself. From the value and venue, the flowers and plants as grew iin innate inequity. The alley residence were pooised posed on both sides. It was many accepting improper hang outs. Thier disturbed limbo was a set paradise of pretense and provincial. Privacy, freedom, disregard and indispute were an accepted reliance and reverence.
This regency and reputability, was an area-choice. The roads-in, that created a constant “run-off” sewers, not very-old; sunked and sipped run-off, fairly, adequately. ...Bob Crowney, and his best-friend were house-mates in the middle-of the block... They were entrepreneurs, working-from home. They'd established themselves, to live unconcerned-lives. Living-in a nice-quiet and clean-neighborhood, made for empowered, and embraced-refining and reverance... Their-hope, like-day; made-for affectation and affording. It would lead to both business and assigned-access... George Holly, was a night-guard... Exposed to a more-securing side-to work. ...David Graines, was a land-speculator. George knew David through their common-grounds. That their-policy was to keep a “tight-ship”. That mornings like this, were a time to look-after the everyday-routines... The side-walk had to be swept, their cars were running, and their home and abode-cleaned, locked and secured. There were many people, trying their-best at enculcating the world.
Plausatives and platitudes, made for a placid-livelihood. Sarah Berger, was an administrative-clerk typist. Yearning-for her own-home, instead of renting. She'd just left-home and broke-up with her boyfriend-since college... She was very-sure, so she spent all her-adult life-working, coming-home and sleeping... She kept a tight-sanctuary, of what was a clean, spotless and decent living-space. The sun-light beams flowed-in, rising-above in the mid-morning sky. The 8-bus-caddies, running the day-shift, came and went. Thoroughfare, picking-up and driving-passengers; where ever their-schedule would take-theme. Noise-came and blared-on, the “everybody”, bustling-avenue... People walked-North, South, East and West... The arrival and speeding-off transits, had reach their everyday-points. ...Drivers came, and stood-at; and strided-on, in private-propriety; cars of many kinds, went on-ward and arrived; taking-on in the discipline-of-traffic laws... The Clarke-Tower Park, was set to arrive in- bloom by far Spring; but now, few entered her-forests. It was a beautiful-park in-blossom, but it was deep winter, so it just set-dormant.
The trees-shook with dull cold-disturbances. Designs and disciplines, made for a dormant duly-reality. The side-main thoroughfare, emanated and emerged. That skies-scope and scale, were sized and attained a-loyalty and instilling. With will andd worthy-worth and workings; as a bulwark-bestowal and embrace. That spirited-speculation, were espoused and importantly, impacting. That portal and enterprise, spanned, supposed and supported by a “rise” and resolve. So people of other-guises, seeked less-fording and facilitations. Bob, Tellie, Todd and Joe were childhood-friends, who'd been hired at the factory; along the downtown-industry districts. Tight-knit, they had wives and kids-in college... They-were constant patrons of “Flamingo's Cafe”, right-along the Main and Bay Streets-intersection.
Their “desires” were to have and keep the hopes and dreams one-day. That they'd be wealthy-enough after a while to buy what they'd come to look-forward to... Now their-dreams were all arrived, subsided or simply-subverted. That theme and supervision, were ideas whose time never came. And once staunch-beliefs, were only unknowing-assumptions... Wives, wants, wills and worthiness-proved more valid and valuable. When worth and wonders, turned-into an everyday-job; done, deed and decidedly, declared. That intent, institution and instilling-primed, posed and propagated-in all its naturality... That theirs was a nicely, compartmental-existence... They, were average. But with means of respect. They were the basic skills-set, buying, paying and holding-society together one-shift, household and job-security at a time. They only knew the snows, would-be a rained-in and wetting-out of duty, devotion and as a paramount. Their-kids were graduate, the houses paid for and the debts and dependencies, made dependable.
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Carol Tucker, was one-time Hygienist; now hair-stylist three doors-down. She would make big-money if she could hold-on. ...She had a teenage-daughter and an adult-son from two-relationships. Her family now long dissolved-in intention of distinction; she was the second eldest-in her once six-member family. But time kind of rattled her-out. That she, as they were distant-due to falling-outs. She always loved her independence. So at 18 years-old, she joined the workforce. Love, life and hopes came, felt-like all of life. She could have taught her siblings, on the ways of life; but knew they'd learn one day.
She had a few patrons in the area, but they and her would have enough; and fade and moved-on. The buses rode by her franchise, where youths were returning-home... Once long bus-ride, ending and starting-South. Cybil Toyeur, was a bright-dedicated secondary-school student. She was a literalist, an athlete, dramatist and assistant-to her school teaching team. She was fully-motivated to attend Brown State, in a year. Her life was looking very-“bright”. She went-home after being “Tom-foolisshness”... She rode the local-bus every other-day. Other students were just irritated about school-discipline, but a few worked-it out. There, it was purely, logical... While as a fifth-grader, her older-brother quit school after attending a Special school. At 16, he trained for his HSE to attend college-all on his own. And succeed ot attend, several Ivy-league Universities. He graduated, with a B+ in premed. She in-turn went on and kept up her good-grades.
The sunshined-warm on the Western bus-side window. Clara Teasman, was a regular-on the line... She went to shop, visit, engage and travel-on the transit bus system... Here, the many riders-rode for fun and function. Watching young-people and old, take journeys across the city. She usually, saw typical-riders and gently, deduced their mind-set... She knew the standards of causes and calculations... She could figure-out so many calm-deducings, by cause and according. They-used her basic-understanding to have a deep-utility of what went-on. That iit became clear what was “wonder” and “wit”. Detailing and depicting, concurring-consistency and cognizance. That she had been religiously, superstitious. At heart she was kind, caring and committed. But as a ponderer of things she wondered, conceived and adduced like a sociologist... Seated-beside her was a quiet but anxious woman. She had a strange facade, about her public-life... ...She exposed it to all things of life, and living. She was a recovering as a addict, a beaten-girlfriend, a drinker and a business embezzler. Like some she once believed in taking things-for free. That ignorantly, she thought it was once overcoming-to take money, without regret.
But now she rode to her destination, which in its immature off-handed insignificant livelihood. She was inwardly, unstable but outward, of resign and reverence... That she was smart, but continually, disingenuous. That was why she attended the Baptist-Church across the near-by park... ...Presence and participation, and intent and incursion... That there was a regain, of self-right and worth... A quiet-manifested-behind her. He didn't apply-notice, but singly, accounted. ...Like many men, of once the typical-culture; he was obviously, unconjectured. He was the image of stereotype-obliviousness. He was still-human. Not particularly, important. He was like a leftover, like many people in his part of town. There-people had history of norm, normality and normalcy. His friends were never principly important to him.
He was just another product of life, in the area. He rode the bus, which used to walk or drive. But the economy, society and trends; just made for “luck” and luminance. He sat hidden in-front of Paul Corsett, a young-barber working in the lower-part of town. That he was scheduled for an incoming customer-group for which he was picked-to barber. He was an exemplary-trimmer, being able to do a groom in-minutes. Before his time, he would be a profile for doing men's hair. The shop was a “neat” place too, before corroberation-improving and pretense. It was to be as he'd liked, many self-advantagous people; his was just right-for the part. He wasn't extremely, outgoing; that was left up-to other people. That by scheme, score and scale he was best left-up to his own-guises. He was to be up everyday, except Sunday and Monday. But he could one day, open his own shop; and buy a nice-sedan and forget being sitting-on an across town-bus.
The general-busline had 91-methods, made and behaved; a society-rode, trying to move-up and move-on. The facing park-neighborhood, were ones-settled and adopted. The skies were slowly, fading. And Taylor McDenmott, was readying to go-out with her-husband after her teacher day-job. She was an 8-year tenure at Riverside Middle-School. Their neighborhood, was well-kept healthy and very-well habitable. It was a place-unto its own. A very-custom, considered and composed of lawn-work, up-keep well-built and utterly, aspised-community. A less than well-ventured implication, ideal and especial-engima. And mastered-population and culture-quiet, complied and carefully, compensatory. The lane, went-on within comprising, development and dutiful-division. That by intent and order it was an understood harmony of place, perspective and portrayal...
The last-breezes there, went-filtering into the foliage; on into other intents and utterances... By instances and inculcations; in relations, cointerations and interrations. There the tall-trees stood devised, fore-set and formed. It was with encompass and innate-novation, on that was now enumerate and confunction. Across the blown-spatial went mostly, covairing; on into the near-area of the back-block-region. It was a knowable, but a solemn condition and conduction. Space and sectors, were relative, volt and facsimilated. Where work, willing and wherewithal; were residential-recount and recourse. The spans let-off to the significant-conclusion. Where cars, trucks and vans were parked, proceeded and preliminarily-transfixed. It was a vying, virtue and view; a pronounced and proprietary seal and stable. The streets going were a strange-plexy and network. The blur and benounce-of place, people, property and pingent-set and settled-stance, station and standard. It was an active-standing. Pele Strivson and Paul Sentinel, were long-time hushand and wife; owning the second-floor of long-held duplexes and landings. They keept guising, grading and gradual the precept, privvy and pretense of housing, in this off-point structure. It was in the vane of art and articulate-of venture and contingent.