Russ's Interview with Sara
by Russ Woods
A: What were you doing?
S: I was staring at the ceiling, staring at the light hanging above the toilet.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was sneaking poetry like I do in the bathrooms at work.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was letting the dog out because he couldn’t sleep and then I couldn’t sleep.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was trying not to wake you up and you told me there was all this tungsten.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was trying to remember what tungsten was. I knew it was on the periodic table.
A: What were you doing?
S: Maybe it is a metal? I don’t remember.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was trying just to get back in bed and to go to sleep even though I knew I couldn’t sleep.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was smoking a cigarette, getting one last one in before bed.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was looking at women on the internet while you were asleep in our bed.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was drinking the last of the lemonade.
A: What were you doing?
S: The last of the lemonade I brought home from work.
A: What were you doing?
S: I talk about work so much now. I am writing this at work.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was not crying. I was trying to cry.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was building these weird heavens for us for later.
A: What were you doing?
S: They kept collapsing. Everyone looked like bear people.
A: What were you doing?
S: The bear people were okay. I meant the bear people.
A: What were you doing?
S: It was the collapsing, it kept happening and I couldn’t stop it.
A: What were you doing?
S: I kept trying to start over, to make it work but I kept getting caught in these same same cycles.
A: What were you doing?
S: I was waking up, realizing about dreams that those were dreams before.
A: What were you doing?
S: There was all this tungsten.
A: What were you doing?
S: Trying to get back to that dream, the collapsing and bear people one.
A: What were you doing?
S: I could fix it now, I knew I could somehow.
A: What were you doing?
S: We were giving each other presents that hurt ourselves.
A: What were you doing?
S: It was like some bloody scary gift of the magi.
A: What were you doing?
S: How long is this going to be?
A: What were you doing?
S: Can’t I just leave now?
A: What were you doing?
S: I’m leaving.
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