I would like to watch you sleeping,which may not happen.I would like to watch you,sleeping. I would like to sleepwith you, to enteryour sleep as its smooth dark waveslides over my head

and walk with you through that lucentwavering forest of bluegreen leaveswith its watery sun & three moonstowards the cave where you must descend,towards your worst fear

I would like to give you the silverbranch, the small white flower, the oneword that will protect youfrom the grief at the centerof your dream, from the griefat the center. I would like to followyou up the long stairwayagain & becomethe boat that would row you backcarefully, a flamein two cupped handsto where your body liesbeside me, and you enterit as easily as breathing in

I would like to be the airthat inhabits you for a momentonly. I would like to be that unnoticed& that necessary.                   -Margaret Atwood

Finally I got my landline installed. I also bought a new computer table which I spent the whole day assembling. The day after, I had to gulp two tablets of painkillers because my hands became stiff out of screwing and attaching the table parts. I thought of suggesting that concept to a reality show. Assembling a computer table is one of the more difficult challenges I encountered in my lifetime. The manual isn’t much of a help because some parts do not match… screws come in different sizes and it’s up to you to figure out which one is for which. If you do something wrong, you’ll have to de-screw and do it all over again. And to top it all, I wasn’t using a screwdriver. That’s the reason why the nailfile on my nailcutter doesn’t look as it was before. I just had a dose of reality of having a landline installed inside your room. At 2 AM, you hear your phone ringing. You ignore. And it doesn’t stop. Wait! You can’t easily turn it off like your cellphone. So I answer. A lady is looking for someone named “Susan”. I asked “Susan Roces? Susan Calo Medina? Or Susan Sarandon?” No, she demanded, Susan *****! “Ah, walang Susan na nakatira dito eh… Susana, next time, i-check mo ang number na dina-dial mo. Lalo na kapag tumatawag ka ng alas dos ng umaga. Bye!” There you go.