The sinister Alexa device on the side
asks frivolous questions:
What cheese can you live in?

I wonder?

It offers recipes:
A vegan pasta dish
Spring salad

Your parcel was delivered
yesterday
Another will arrive
on Thursday
you are told

Outside, the trees in the distance
still have their winter shapes
Comforting against a white sky
and beautiful in front of the sunset

The cat eats its food

The peace lilies are in bloom

I read a book, whilst

you are in the other room, sleeping

and away from all this
the city goes on
endlessly

but that, for now, is somewhere else

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