My kitchen floor is aslop with empty syllables. I babble in response to my husband's automatic question delivered everyday in the same way - "How was your day?" I realized yesterday this is my response to living with someone who has no interest in me beyond the act of asking me to recite what I've done over the day. I answer by opening my mouth and letting the loneliness spill out in thick consonants and vowels.
I cannot help my need for intimacy. And it doesnt inconvenience him or bore him because he is not listening anyway. I have tested him many times. In the middle of a discourse, I'll stop.
And the silence is deafening.
About The Captain
- Captain Eudoxia
- Our captain is an intelligent and assertive woman who is savvy enough to know when to sail into the wind and when to sit quietly in safe harbour. She is anxious to reach port and then launch her crew on new explorations into uncharted waters.