Plural

by Mae Grey · 28/12/2025
Published 28/12/2025 09:29

I told them at the water cooler

about the noise, the crowd, the humor.

We drove three hours for the bread,

is what I lied and what I said.


The booth was vinyl, cracked and wide.

No one sitting by my side.

A single fork on paper white.

The only witness to the light.

#deception #isolation #loneliness #mundane routine #office life

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