Slowly.

Can’t find my headphones.

Man, these triceps are burning today. Man, I really need these spiderwebs out of here.

We laugh about how they just don’t get it. That we know things can just work out.

I waited to answer the questions because I wanted to think more deeply about them. Maybe I’m thinking too hard.

Oh, there are other people on this list.

I remind myself that they will be back. That a year is long but also short. They will be back.

Hot but I refuse to go inside.

I read a poem and say a few words. I am rusty. It’s been too long.

I tell him that it was strange to be the one at the table with the most years under her belt. I am young, but also old.