she wakes up in ache and hunger. brain forming nothing not even feelings. “smiling in your sleep” pops into her head, suddenly she is flooded with dread and fear-like soft pain. shaking from withing to the tips of her fingers. the instinct was to look around scan the room confirm the danger but she closed her eyes shut, shut, shut.
every morning is the same. i better not get alzhimers. just. getting into the rythm of common mornings, pulling away from scenarios real as the walls and low ceilings, brain tricks as she calls them. fake fake like a magic trick is not magic, the surreal engulfing thoughts are not tangible amd more importantly never will be.
darling dresses well. darling does her eye make up only. darling stares the stacks of lipstick all shades of peach red and black, thoughts shimmiring in the corners of the room, closer to the floor now. takes out the flat cotton circles rough to her soft fingers wets it with oily -bought by accident- makeup remover. rubs it clean, rubs it ugly. in a summer dress that she wears to prove to herself no insecurities live on.











