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I didn’t know you had a roommate.
We have to speak quietly.
Again, I felt uneasy, and again, I ignored it.
Very nice to meet you. My name is Toby. How do you do?
They shared food, books, stories, jokes.
It wasn’t a big deal.
Doesn’t that look nice?
The answer or the question, one or the other.
And you just can’t do it like that.
It’s all work, it’s all a kind of armor.
I thought about it for a long time.
Where would I be in four years?
I’m pretty sure we’ll end up seeing a lot of each other.
You look so good.
I’m comfortable.
What are you doing?
None of this really matters.
I love this time, the calm before.
What’s going to happen?
No one’s around.
I’d dare myself to go in there, just go in and appear and don’t say a thing.
That is the way of things.
You don’t have to be involved.
I think I’ve seen you before.
What’s happening is a result of your decisions.
Because what do you lose from trying?
I didn’t have anything.
Here is how life is best lived.
It wasn’t meant to be a joke.
I do not know my people.
The man could see that his therapist was not amused.
You’re going to go do your business and come right back.
His dreams are full of open windows, speeding cars.
I knew now that I had nothing to do but wait ̶ and hope.
You’re looking splendid!
Who were these people, minute to minute and year after year?
It was a form of joyous overflow.
You have to keep finding it, keep having it find you.
Can you imagine?
He felt he might sit there until he turned to stone or drew his last breath
There were too many memories
He wakes in the middle of the night gasping for air
You don’t ever have to worry about me
Paris, November 2013
So what are your plans for today?
It seemed better to not even think it
Gone fishin’
This can’t be why I’m here
But I would be long gone by then
He was dangerous