#cat chair window nightlight OK so if you're not going to be able to sleep, don't sleep. why fight about it? there's already enough misery in the dark. just because your hair is tipped with gray doesn't mean you can't recall the strategy you used, alone on Fratney, before most of all of this had happened, when you also couldn't sleep. honestly, not that much has changed. except there are more small mammals living in the same space with you now. refrigerators still make noise, people still tell ourselves what kind of people we are and then try to act like it, the city still looks cold and orange in the winter from a distance, and sudden sadness can be waiting around any staircase, behind any bookshelf, after the party has been planned and is over, makeovers quickly given and then washed off, the play rehearsed and acted and full of surprises and never exactly living up to what we had told ourselves we had in mind. (2015)