Day 90 of 2026
“Five Meetings, No Tasks, One Thank You in the Dark”
And so now the reality is starting to hit. I have to actually do work.
spoken reading· 50s
generating...
MARGINALIA (found in the margins of a meeting agenda, third-floor conference room, date illegible)
Who scheduled this over the other one?
The other one was already over the first.
Arrows pointing to nothing.
A rectangle drawn around a rectangle
drawn around a name I can't read.
She said "moving forward" eleven times.
I kept count in the margin opposite this one.
The chair has one short leg. Every time
I shift, the room tilts imperceptibly.
No one else notices. I am the only
instrument calibrated to this frequency
of wrongness.
Note to self: the vending machine
on this floor takes only exact change
and the coffee tastes of the hallway.
Another rectangle.
Inside it, a smaller door.