my hands fall clumsily onto the keyboard i am amazed there are no misspellings waiting for my coffee to cool a sip more and the floating pat of butter to melt i am waiting on a paradox a pair of dice i type and sit sip and type i am waiting on words to come out paradeux monkeys with typewriters we've done this experiment before the pilot in the breakfast nook asks for boiled eggs the man in the burger shirt would like to check out late. he's been places we all can see from his shirt with the Burgers that are first In then Out we don't have those down here and we don't have hard-boiled eggs either not this morning. they were ordered from the warehouse but never came she tells him she is sixty five perhaps and only another half hour from bed she greets we stragglers who have slept soundly under her night desk watch. i wonder who it is that isn't there to greet her at the door, the same nobody she works night shifts in this ai...