Strike on Friday

No sound, awaken in the dawn grey in the window, wrapped in the mask, loosely providing a large quantity of air at a slightly raised pressure.
Stops the gullet collapsing in deep sleep, unblocking the airways, avoiding asphyxiation. Such is the theory.
It works in practice.
It makes deep sleep possible.
Years of dreams interrupted by the emergency processes of the dreamers body.

get up, bathroom
Still half asleep after nearly eight hours.
teeth, living room, computer
write this
Make coffee
Sons Alarm
bring coffee for the wife
cannot find the milk.
The kitchen has been rearranged.

Find the milk,
put it all into a blue cup on a green saucer.

Today is a day of strike
more pay more pension shorter hours,
Reality dreams.

Ok.