Ten.One Thousand, One Hundred & Twenty-Three

1. 3:46am. This will be a long day.

2. 4:48am.

3. Almost too cold to have the door open.

4. Black dirt on my hands.

5. The sunrise is reflecting off the windows of the neighbor’s house. Rose-gold light.

6. We find someone to give them haircuts.

7. I tell him that I’ve reached the point of overwhelm where I can’t even think. I just keep walking from room to room, staring around.

8. I need something different.

9. I had said I wasn’t going to help anyone move the furniture but there’s a baby in the car and its crying for its mother and so I tell her to take care of the child. I help her partner load it all into the back of his truck, give them a blanket so that the drawers won’t bang against the glass of the cab. I see in them my self from so many years ago: a young family with a young child trying to make it all work.

10. Tomorrow.