Mon, 9 March

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 — 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.