This is a year

This is a child

This is a life

This is a street corner

This is a car speeding

This is the hard part

This is Tuesday

This is the colour red

This is the smell of freshly cut grass

This is the end of the world

This is me ignoring you at a party

This is time itself

This is my hand

This is me clapping

This is the distance between us

This is my father leaving when I was two

This is a swing set in the backyard

This is God

This is a plastic cup of apple juice

This is a shady street in the suburbs

This is a two-storey house with wall-to-wall carpet

This is life on Earth

This is the colour green

This is a witness

This is me wetting the bed until I was twelve

This is an erection

This is a secret

This is a weapon

This is me, coming apart at the seams

This is my first sexual encounter

This is a country

This is a map of the country

This is a scar

This is my mother on the beach

This is the length of a human tongue

This is a high school parking lot

This is the smokers’ corner

This is physics

This is a forest full of beer bottles

This is the place where I lose you

This is snow

This is our neighbourhood

This is a motel

This is your uncle in his white briefs

This is my mother alone with her thoughts

This is the weight of the world

This is the funeral

This is a rim job

This is the earth seen from space

This is a lifelong fear of heights

This is a shitstorm

This is an animal made of papier-mâché

This is how we collapse

This is the future

This is a dirty rag

This is a ghost town

This is a deck of cards

This is the ace of spades

This is me spending time in the world

This is thirty seconds of your time

This is the shape you were looking for

This is my mother looking at Van Gogh

This is an overpriced salad

This is just my opinion

This is a cartoon version of myself

This is a remote island

This is a personal vendetta

This is me missing you

This is dawn

This is a shortcut

This is a sparrow

This is a midair collision

This is the colour blue

This is a film starring Juliet Binoche

This is a regret

This is an abandoned storefront

This is an opening

This is a complimentary snack

This is a tiny ball of cellophane

This is a prop in a play

This is my life compressed into ten seconds

This is an unremarkable blow job

This is a swimming pool in the desert

This is a trick the light plays

This is a precocious teenager

This is a walnut

This is a late-night karaoke regret