A bathroom scene. At this moment, he wished the tiles were tatami. There was no record of the past in this white tiny room, he thinks. As if it has taken the guise of a lonely planet floating in space spun out of orbit, without origin or history, with no known destination or trajectory. Just the push and pull of magnetic fields of two heavenly bodies and the suspension of disbelief. Today, there is no difference between seclusion and solitude. The four walls create a space pod for a single astronaut floating aimlessly in space. He lights up a cigarette. The smoke lingers below the fluorescent light hanging like Polaris. He spits on the drainage.

I often find myself stopping for things that take me elsewhere. It could be the sight of a plane taking off from a nearby airport that will remind me of a specific childhood memory — when I used to play outside of our house and wave to the airplanes passing so high overhead thinking my father is boarded in one of them—, a name of an author that reminds me of an old love, a word, an object, a particular 7-Eleven store, and among other things that take me out of the event of my being. Most of the time, I must take a moment to catch my breath before realizing what is happening. However, the moment I had of elsewhere had already passed after I caught my breath.

Of course, I will always come back to you but only insofar as you wear the clothes of the transcendent signified. You are only you when you are stripped of everything that is you, who becomes everything and everyone at the moment of meaning’s abnegation. We only exist in language and linguistics is the only relationship that connects us. But what about its grammar? What are the disguises that we inhabit to make sense of everything that we have become? What is the structure of your being, the syntax of your voice before you begin to sing? Why are we separated by a space between two words only to fulfill the delivery of thought, idea, into a sentence? What do sentences become if they are not sent and passively suspended in space?