I opened the window just now The metronome of the leaky bathtub dip dop in the next room Disembodied evidence of a world outside. I reset the margins on this old typer The sputter of the leaky radiator as familiar as the cars on the street as the 6 am garbage trucks- the cacophony of morning, the wheel of time. Keep your past lives. I know nothing about the world outside my skull save the leaky bathtub.
But I know those trucks- and they are older than me, older than death, older than the garbage they carry.
I hear them every morning but they have never heard me.
Tell Shiva to stop dancing. I'm trying to get some rest.