Tuesday, August 11, 2026

The Bed

 

Three-quarters of the bed belongs to you, and

three-quarters of the bed belongs to me, so

there must naturally be some overlap, some

point in which we occupy the same space.

 

This place can either be a place of contention, or

a breathing space together, a face-to-face space.

It can be a place for melting together, or invasion,

a place for a game of space invaders, or a place where

 

each in each is buried alive but breathes, not

suffocating, but finding a new way to breathe

in each other. Or it can be a place of trespass, as in

you’re sleeping in my space, you’re squashing my

 

life out of me, you’re removing my room, you’re

crowding me out. Three-quarters of the bed belongs to

each? Not true. All of the bed belongs to each, and

each beaches in each other, and reaches harbour.


2014