Preliminary results
he opens a bottle of water. sips slowly.
— shit, that's good.
— fuck yeah. water's good. excited. water is life.
— have you noticed how inflation is growing in binary progression?
— huh?
— like this bottle costed $2, then $4, then $8 and so on till $256 now.
— yeah. but what can you do. the most important thing in sex is hydration.
— yeah..
sips some more.
— so what do we do. stop drinking?
— buy dollar US!
— what?
— old rule. whatever's in your hand, swap it for something that holds.
— nothing holds.
— the bottle held.
he tips it to her. she drinks. paint on her neck, one ear blue.
— you look like you've been randomised.
— you had the brush half the time.
— and you had it the other half.
— can't tell which half was mine.
— you put a boat right on my tree.
— your tree was where my boat wanted to go.
— that's not a coincidence?
— it's not a coincidence, it's a confound.
— nerd.
— my ex was a nerd.
— the one who still texts?
— that one.
— you ghosting him?
— I'm not ghosting him. I'm withdrawing from the study.
— look at you. green to the wrists.
— I'm an artist now.
— since when?
— since about two hours ago.
— you should get that checked. being artist is a condition.
sad laugh. long cigarette drag.
— what else is a condition?
— watching the sky. I lost an hour to the storm today.
— and?
— looked majestic.
— gods having a party.
— were we a party?
— were we a date?
— the trick to a first date is a small sample size.
— so, one?
— one. maybe two.
— and how's it going?
— I don't have opinions. I have preliminary results.
— and?
— promising.
she takes the cigarette off him. a tube of white sits by the easel. he leaves it there.