Status Updates From The Days of Abandonment

I said to myself that if I devoted myself immediately to the usual domestic activities I would be better off. Do the laundry. Separate the white clothes from the dark. Start the washing machine. I had only to quiet the view inside, the thoughts. They got mixed up, they crowded in on one another, shreds of words & images, buzzing frantically, like a swarm of wasps, they gave to my gestures a brute capacity to do harm.