what looks like absence is sometimes just a person loving you in a foreign language

When I say I need time alone, what I really mean is: I want to move all the furniture around and then move it all back. I want to paint something and leave the brushes to bristle because I got distracted washing my hair. I’ll forget to take my vitamins because I was busy trying on dresses I have nowhere to wear. I’ll move every plant to the tiles in the…