This is Sunday school

This is a root canal

This is a willow tree

This is an squid shooting ink

This is Huckleberry Finn

This is an avocado

This is my childhood

This is how I whisper in your ear

As 1 speaks, 2 enters. 2 joins in without interrupting the flow of movement and text.

1: This is my hand outstretched

2: This is the thing

1: This is us playing Sega Genesis

2: This is not the thing

1: This is the fall of America

2: This is you quitting your job

1: This is an exorcism

2: This is you working as a waitress

1: This is Wikipedia

2: This is how you met my father

1: This is the drive home

2: This is how it ended

1: This is a nightmare

2: This is the dust under my bed

1: This is a shit stain on my underwear

2: This is me crying uncontrollably in the train station

1: This is the first time we fucked without condoms

2: This is my life without me

2 stops gesturing. 1 continues to silently gesture for each of 2’s declarations.

2: This is me avoiding your question

This is me being unreasonable

This is calamity

This is Hollywood

This is a gas station in the Mojave desert

1 and 2 gesture on their own lines.

1: This is my sweat

2: This is us fucking in the back seat

1: This is us caught in the rain

2: This is us being quiet together

1: This is the humidity

2: This is your breath

1: This is my breath

1 and 2 gesture on all lines.

1: This is an airplane shot down from the sky

This is the fart you wouldn’t own up to

This is a murmuration of starlings

2: This is a false idol

This is your gratitude

1: This is a non-fat latte

This is a finished basement

This is the stingray that killed Steve Irwin

2: This is the nightlife

1: This is a blood feud

2: This is an ergonomic office chair

1: This is a novel interrupted by the death of its author

1 and 2 gesture on all lines.

2: This is spring

This is my soul

This is the sound of distant construction

This is a boy singing to himself under his breath

This is daylight

This is my friend Shane in a coma

2 stops gesturing. 1 continues to gesture in silence.

2: This is the second time you’ve interrupted me

This is a discontinued cereal

This is an undiscovered colour

This is an indescribable shape

This is how I got over you

This is the first man who loved my mother

This is a train whistle at night

This is an Agnes Martin painting

This is a convincing forgery (2 mimics 1’s gesture of an Agnes Martin painting.)

2: This is a trace amount of plutonium

This is a moment of indecision

This is a field gone fallow

This is the email you never replied to

This is my receding hairline

This is a desecrated holy site

1 and 2 gesture on all lines.

1: This is us listening to the neighbours making love

2: This is them listening to us

1: This is a doubt that plagues me