Afternoon Theorem
by Sean Cho A.
the microwave counts down but never up. this feels important. my therapist says you’re always thinking
about the past & I say the past is where all my stuff is. today I reheated the same coffee three times. each
time it got worse. this is also a lesson. in the corner: my houseplant. unnamed. unbothered.
photosynthesizing without my approval. if I could be anything I think I’d be a cloud. not because of
the view but because clouds are constantly becoming something else & no one gets mad about it.
there goes Steve they’d say. he used to be a cloud & now he’s rain. good for him. the microwave beeps. I’ve been standing here for six minutes thinking about clouds. the coffee is cold again. I hit the button.
we start over.
Sean Cho A. is a writer living in the southern United States.
