Two second-hands living in the same Big Ben counter and clockwise beat together in a similar rhythm on opposing schedules of the day she breaks her fast at around 8am, syncing with his injestion of supper and she collapses at midnight just as he reboots for the night shift though they spend most of the ticks and tocks in varying angles It was agreed upon that they meet on the sixth – Definitely on the sixth of the week to reconcile and kindle… caressing those can’t-be-helped blank spaces where fragments should have been