Stove

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.