It is my lunch hour and I don’t really feel like being here at work.
I want to read interesting things and make curtains for our apartment.
Our apartment!!!!
I am moving to Reynoldsburg in a little less than three weeks.
And I really want to buy these or these for the walls.
I am really excited to make a home down here in Columbus.

I need to get back to work in a few minutes, so I am going to leave you with a poem that I love very much and a drawing from Kurt Halsey.

 The Quiet World

In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it in to my ear
Without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

— Jeff McDaniel

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