I considered going into the living room to play a CD or tape, but remembered the clock radio. It sounds good and not too overbearing. Sounds freak me out in this jarring time.

Another sip of Pepsi. Another language singing to me. I wonder if there is a website that sells stencils and stickers exclusively. In cases such as this, I wish I were Scrooge McDuck. I would break the bank ordering stencils and stickers to relegate them to the black and white world of photocopy.

A relevant sound of present is smack and sniffle. Smack of kiss and sniffle of nose. And one other sound that is secret, my brain slowly breaking.