there was an owl in the toilet

i don’t know why but there was

sat in the water like it was a bath

but it wasn’t a bath

it was a toilet

i edged around the room to the sink and its head rotated round watching me and i washed my hands in the sink and brushed my teeth and it watched me the whole time and it never blinked once or maybe it did but it was too fast for me to see and then i finished brushing my teeth and i wiped my mouth on the flannel and then backed out of the room and its head rotated back and it watched me leave still unblinking and then i pulled the door shut as slowly as possible so as not to startle it and it’s still probably in there now i suppose i haven’t been back in to have a look

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1. Written on July 16th, 2016

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