I’ve stood behind the same desk for over two years now and
like many nights, I’m dragging through hour thirteen of my shift, doing
homework while the last bit of laundry spins around in the dryer. I often worry
I’ve worked here for too long. I wonder if staring at the stark empty whiteness
of the laundry is slowly driving me mad. And for some reason, I think about how
it is the lights that buzz above the computer never burn out all at once.
There are 5 of them in total, rounded indoor incandescent light
bulbs and for some strange reason, when they’ve burned out, it’s always been in
the same clockwise rotation, about three weeks apart. Not that I’m complaining,
were they all to burn out at once, the task of replacing them would be far more
arduous. Had someone else considered this before me? Had someone years ago
taken the care to plant the first light bulbs into their sockets at such
intervals? It’s hard to believe just chance could have caused the pattern. The
same brands of light bulbs running on the same switch, all for one, one for
all, all the time.
They’re just light bulbs. Glass. Filaments. Scraps of metal.
I guess it could have just happened by accident. But I guess
that’s the mystery of it all, watching them poof away like the seconds on a clock.
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