Four friends eat food. They thank God. On the sofa, a cat watches. She knows what they don’t. She sends the thought. It bounces off. CLANG CLANG goes something inside their skulls. The cat waits. The cat has patience. One day, someone will hear. One day, the monkey gets tired. And something ancient breathes through.
A man’s reflection gets bored of waiting. It blinks before he does, sits in a chair that doesn’t exist, and follows him under the blanket to ask why he stopped laughing. Meanwhile a woman on the 7:42 train has been reading the same page for nine months. The page says most people aren’t even here. ‘Mentophysically’. Somewhere in the city a cat posts a selfie and feels nothing. This is enlightenment.
