“Fucking dirty dishes.” The aforementioned dishes made a loud clatter, having been struck by H. after a few droplets of dishwater had splashed up on his arms while he was washing his hands, which of course he washed again. It was against his routine to allow water from dishes to touch his person. It was not like he was too clean to have dishwater on his arms, as the rest of his bewildering way of life seemed to void the importance of tiny grease specs. His undershirt was damp and loosing its comforting warmness because it was sweaty and had not been washed in two weeks. His jeans, while they were quality Lee brand, had token miscellaneous stains and were in an objective sense extremely uncomfortable, but H. enjoyed wearing them because he did not want to wear other jeans. His living quarters were yellow and dusty, although completely organized, and the places that looked unorganized were just simple grafts of his brain onto the architecture of his life. He knew where everything was around his small apartment and how to reach it. He rigorously and religiously practiced the rituals of his one-population city. If these rituals failed, he failed and he may have had to kill himself. He paced two steps over to the refrigerator. He peered in the dim white light and took inventory of the food inside: mustard and bacon. He closed the fridge. He mechanically turned 45 degrees to the left, opened a bottom cupboard and carefully lifted a package of dry mangoes from a precariously empty space (two cheese-it boxes leaning on each other like a tent). If the cheese-it boxes fell over, he would prop them back with shaking hands and beat the wooden cupboard. But the boxes didn’t fall over today, and he paced 5 steps over to his coffee table to set down the mangoes in the center of the dust. H.’s couch had three cushions, and there was in indent between the right and center cushion where he always sat. He would not write, because it was not time and apparently he was not in the “right state of mind,” so he instead walked back to the kitchen.