“Bulb.”
I looked up from my phone.
“Bulb,” he said.
“What?”
“Bulb. I would like bulb.”
“We’re all out of bulbs.”
“Not bulbs,” he said. “Bulb.”
“What?”
“I would like bulb.”
“We’re all out of-”
“BULB.”
“I’m sorry…”
“BULB.”
I pulled down the blind and ignored him as best I could until he had gone. His cries of bulb slowly faded out over the rest of the afternoon, as he first got dispirited and secondly as he got further away.
That night I dreamt of bulb.
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Notes:
1. Bulb
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