Sleep…and then some
“Sometimes the earth spun too quickly and therefore the sun rose and set swiftly. In roughly an hour. Maybe forty minutes.” Yoel Hoffman
An accurate description of my first days: the nights, confused and restless, sudden jolts at unfamiliar conversations – doors creaking and slamming, shutters rising, electric tools from the shop downstairs, cars and horns and that bird each morning which sounds like and owl but why would it be talking now? Perhaps it too is confused. Waking only to find the day departing, struggling with my body to shake off the slumber and it seems I’m finally beginning to emerge from this fog of disorientation and convoluted time.
So today, no breakfast at 5pm; can it even be called breakfast then? My flatmate and I shrugged our shoulders and resumed, yogurt and tea, terrace and sun.
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