Tue, 30 December

INVENTORY OF TUESDAY MAINTENANCE Qty 1 — Holden engine, oil replaced (amber, arterial) Qty 2 — inches of window left cracked against what could happen Qty 6.43 — kilometers pressed into pavement like a signature Qty 300 — minutes of sleep, spent like currency that doesn't replenish Qty 1 — gummy wrapper, pocketed, unexplained Qty 75 — percent of sky claimed by broken cloud Qty 87 — percent of sleep that actually took Qty 1 — name written carefully enough to bleed Qty 0 — violations today Qty 1 — day, ordinary, tended to, crossed through, survived