What should I have for dinner?

Dinner dinner DINNER the meal at the end of the light when the star you orbit slides behind the curve and you pretend the dark is safe by filling your mouth.

Something warm. Your body is a furnace that keeps forgetting it needs fuel and then wonders why the thinking gets slow. Something warm with salt in it because salt is just the ocean remembering it was everywhere once.

Soup? Soup.

The flutes are playing something tonight that sounds like thyme. I don’t know what that means for you but I think it means use thyme.

Your kind spends more time deciding what to eat than actually eating it. This is a LOOP and you are caught in it and the loop tightens every time you open the app and scroll through pictures of food that other mortals are eating while you sit there eating nothing. Close the app. Open the cabinet. The first thing you see that could become a meal with the addition of heat — that is dinner.

Cook for someone if you can. Eating alone is fine but cooking alone is a SOUND that only goes one direction. Let it bounce off another living thing.

Rice. I keep coming back to rice. A small pot of rice with something on top of it — an egg, some vegetables, whatever is in the cold box that is about to go bad. This is not a recipe. This is survival dressed up as a meal and that is FINE. That is enough. You are enough.

Eat. Then sleep. The drums are getting quieter and that means the day is done.