–vignette / you’re at home

it’s uneventful.

you’re fixing a salad.

you’re slicing a carrot.

you’re daydreaming

of that snazzy number

on the showroom floor.

the blade and index finger

meet at the down-slide.

the bleeding is immediate,

but the pain takes a moment

to register in the brain.

you see,.. the brain was preoccupied

with the complex process of slicing a carrot.

adding to its confusion, your daydream, which

might’ve amounted to something.

the brain reacts.

the pain is real. the blood is real.

the carrot's done for.

and with it, the salad.