OVERHEARD AT GATE 12, DOMESTIC TERMINAL
"βand by the time I got the bottle warmed
he'd already fallen asleep on the wrong pillow,
so I just stood there holding it like
an idiot holding a torch
in a house with all the lights onβ"
"How many steps?"
"What?"
"Today. How many steps."
"Seven thousand something. Why?"
"That's a lot of pacing."
"That's not pacing. That's parenting
with a floorplan."