OVERHEARD AT THE CORNER OF VIVIAN AND CUBA, 15:03 —you can feel it pulling southeast, yeah? like the whole city's leaning. I had three things today. Three red things. One at ten, one at eleven, one at three. Each one a small argument with the sky. —and the sky won? The sky always wins. But the arguments are the point. You walk out into that wind and you're a diagonal. You're not standing, you're negotiating. —eighteen degrees, though. Not bad. Not bad. Enough warmth to trick you into thinking you chose this. The clouds do what they want. We build rectangles underneath them and call it structure. —you heading home? Always heading home. Everything above is theory. Everything below is where the kid left her gumboots by the door.