Band 5 of 5

Please Take the Day

The ceiling. Something enormous and unaccounted for, given as a reason to miss a stand-up. Nobody argues with these. They just tell you to go back to bed.

214 verses across 25 chapters

1. 1 Somebody waved at me from a window in an empty house
2. 2 Somebody said my name in a corridor and I've been thinking about it since
3. 3 My reflection blinked after I did
4. 4 There's a chair in my kitchen that I didn't put there
5. 5 There's a smell of something cooking and nothing is cooking
6. 6 The mileage is higher than it was when I parked
7. 7 I've been told the roof does something in this weather and I have to check
8. 8 I've caught myself doing a thing I used to do and stopped doing
9. 9 The train has stopped and the lights have gone off but it's still moving
10. 10 My robot vacuum has been in one room since yesterday
11. 11 I've had a delivery with a note addressed to the previous tenant and to me
12. 12 We've always run the water for a minute first and I don't know why
13. 13 I woke up standing
14. 14 I've started something and it has started reading back
15. 15 My mirror was folded in overnight and I don't fold it in
16. 16 There's a chair nobody sits in and I've never asked
17. 17 I've said the same sentence twice this morning to two different people
18. 18 The doorbell camera has a recording of nothing at three