RECIPE FOR A DAY LIVED ENTIRELY IN THE HEAD
Ingredients:
1 overcast sky, unbroken (100% coverage preferred)
1452 calories, divided into forgettable portions
10 tasks, scored into stone but never fully excavated
1 video call, rectangular, placed off-centre
1 name you keep returning to like a word on the tip of your tongue
Cloud cover to taste
Method:
Wake into grey. Do not move more than necessary.
Arrange the tasks vertically. Stare at them
until they become architecture.
Eat without ceremony. The fuel is not the point.
At 1pm, open the small window in the upper right
of your life. Speak to someone. Close it.
Return to the monument.
Carve deeper into some grooves. Leave others
as suggestions only β breath-marks
in the surface of the day.
By evening the slab will have taken on
its own shadow. You will not have left the house.
The house will not have left you.
Serves one. Keeps indefinitely.
Do not reheat.