Being Flat: Apartment 1a

By Richard Mather

Refrigerator, baby, shoelace, moth,

quarks, ceiling, “background,” sink, magazine, sieve,

“environment,” pencil, cactus, cloth,

“climate,” atoms, paper, bottle,

“conatus,” “nature,” paw, red,

“world,” electron, christmas tree, shadow, “love,”

Chloe, fibre, cigarettes, vinyl, fishing rod,

light bulb, bauble, “space,” picture frame,

“genealogy,” tap, king-size bed,

television, “universe,” pram,

metal, man, hand-carved ornamental cat,

coat, string, “cognition,” shape, Diazepam,

“place,” Ulysses, line, laptop, fake fur hat,

aerosol, “evolution,” “atmosphere,”

lung, “entropy,” kettle, cable, “cosmos,” cot,

“infomation,” polycotton, “future,” switch, mirror,

DVD player, carpet, money, “identity,”

machine, water, shape, toolbox, “four,”

plastic, image, radiation, wallpaper, eye,

writing, needle, dust, foam,

gift box, “color,” blender, “history,”

“apartment 1a,” “life,” “solids,” comb,

“materials,” flame, credit card, megabyte,

lipstick, perfume, cupboard, kitchen, “home”…

email, teddy bear, gluons, apple, datum, bait:

an unfinished set of things equally existing,

the set included.