There is a pause. She ashes her cigarette. It falls on me. It seems like the birds have stopped too.
i got bored though because i knew all of the different arrangements of it. i
probably needed to stick at it longer to get it dense enough to feel navigable
in a way that was engaging to me
Thank you, Jack, for telling me I'm justas bad as the characters (actually they're people, if that means anything to you) that I'm writing about.