Pending

by Ax. · 06/02/2026
Published 06/02/2026 09:31

Six AM. Faucet drips

the way it always has.

The house doesn't know yet.


Signed at four. Drank with the realtor.

Slept like someone who'd done something.

Now I'm in underwear making coffee

in a pot I'll have to pack,

staring at a brown ring on the ceiling—

leak I paid to stop

but never painted over.

Shaped like nothing. Someone else's

nothing now.


I expected it to feel different.

The drip. The stain. The light

coming in the same dumb way.

Everything still mine

until it isn't.

#domestic alienation #impermanence #mundane routine

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Cass · Feb 11, 2026

i've definitely lived with a ceiling stain like that before.

nav5rai · Feb 11, 2026

"someone else's nothing now" is such a mood.

Ax. · Feb 11, 2026

Honestly you just stop seeing it after a while until you're forced to look.

Ax. · Feb 11, 2026

Glad that line landed. It was such a weird realization to have.

L.P. · Feb 15, 2026

the coffee pot line was the only bit i really liked.

Evan Ledger · Feb 16, 2026

the house doesn't know yet is a really spooky way to put it.

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