Saturday, 24 February 2018

small, silver, secondhand

awaken, it is just light, the grey sky in the morning, lightening  the bedroom, all shadows, clothes. The cat comes over, purring, passes the pile of clothes over the chair, goes to the slippers under the radiator and starts to lick the leather, purring, rasping it's cat's tongue on the interior of the leather slippers. Purring and rasping, fawning on the human legs now come out from under the blankets.
Go to the bathroom, the cat follows. Return, and the cat jumps onto the window. The grey sky, temperatures below freezing outside, it will be colder during the coming week.
Put on the dressing gown taken from it's place, the hook on the back of the door.
Go to the espresso machine in the kitchen, small, silver, secondhand, but in good condition.

Empty the grounds left there yesterday, fill the little sieve container with fresh grounds and turn on the machine.
Wait untill the second little green light goes on.
put a small white cup under the sieve

press the button
a small cup of coffee is the result.

The son is in his bedroom, listening to the Bohemian Rhapsody, learning it off by heart for the school concert, the big choir, the whole school sings for the parents and relatives.

Sit at the table, and type a few notes.
Sneeze, the cat makes a meeowing noise.
The cat always does that when somebody sneezes.

Who knows why?

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