Overheard Starbuck

"Looking at my inescapable life with its grudging acts of loving kindness, resentful insights and hallucinatory moments of genius I can see what runny shits even the most talented, attractive, religious or awakened human beings must be."
---"'Blood's thicker than the mud'."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
---"Your rant reminded me of an old 'Sly and the Family Stone' song, 'It's a Family Affair'."
"You promised you'ld stop with the song lyrics."
---"It has this rhythm track that sounds like a coffee percolator. ..It's amazing... 'One child grows up to be somebody who loves to learn--percolate, percolate-- Another child grows up to be somebody who just loves to burn...'"
"It's not fair."
---"'Mom loves them both...'--percolate, percolate--it sort of fits.--Without love aren't we all just blood-filled mud bags? With love there's a chance we might effervesce into inspired mud, conscious blood?"
"You're not even trying."
---"You want another? I'm buying."