Day 183 of 2026
“Clearing the Decks Before Warmth”
It's called muscle memory
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The muscle memory in your fingers on both hands
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And then once you've got that, it's pretty easy
instrumental· 60s
generating...
TWO FIGURES, CUBA STREET TAVERN, WINTER AFTERNOON
Exhibit A: two drinks, condensation rings overlapping.
Exhibit B: the notebook, open at page one, eight lines written, the rest of the pages so clean they hurt.
Exhibit C: a chalk board whose message cannot be read by anyone who wasn't there.
Exhibit D: the window, which has been trying to get in for an hour.
Exhibit E: the warmth, which is not a thing you can point to.
Exhibit F: the angle of leaning, measured in degrees of not-wanting-to-leave.
Exhibit G: the city, contracted.
Exhibit H: the afternoon, which is holding its breath and has been for some time now.
miniature diorama rotunda — a snow-globe world you are standing inside, the tavern at its warm heart, the cold working-day orbiting the outside ring