I gather my clothes from the floor. Scurrying down the stairs my shadow is hunched like Nosferatu on the wall. I stop to admire a houseplant. A single leaf holds a drop of water collected overnight. I have nothing to do with it, though I feel proud. Not everything I touch rots on the vine. 

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