4: This is my mother’s left breast

1: This is Saturday

2: This is Greece

3: This is a villain from a popular children’s television series

4: This is a dirty mattress

1: This is a pirouette

2: This is the married man I slept with in Greece

3: This is a sparkler

4: This is Daniel in the lion’s den

1: This is a romantic comedy

2: This is an email you regret sending

3: This is a meme

4: This is a rumour

1: This is an empty office building at night

4: This is your subconscious

1: This is a pus-filled pimple

2: This is an old high school crush

3: This is a can of Orange Crush

4: This is you crushing the can under your foot

1: This is your shoe

2: This is what it smells like

3: This is your toe in my mouth

4: This is you alone with your thoughts

1: This is my mother saying ‘good night’

2: This is the colour fuchsia

3: This is the colour fuchsia

4: This is the colour fuchsia

1: This is a surgical scalpel

2: This is my mother saying ‘good night’

3: This is a bouquet of tiger lilies

4: This is my nose coated with pollen

1: This is me washing my hands

2: This is a tire swing

3: This is mathematics

4: This is the nightmare where my teeth fall out of my head

1: This is me masturbating at the airport

2: This is Easter Island

3: This is Captain Cook

4: This is a pair of your boxers

1: This is us smoking outside the laundromat

2: This is our laundry combined for the first time in a spin cycle

3: This is the Renaissance

4: This is Jesus Christ

1: This is me putting my number in your phone

2: This is my babysitter, Lisa

3: This is me finding my stolen bike

4: This is a metaphor

1: This is an archive

2: This is an archive

3: This is an airplane passing three miles overhead

4: This is a stewardess

1: This is the in-flight movie

2: This is my mother’s fear of flying

3: This is you black-out drunk

4: This is you putting your fist through the wall

1: This is me doing sit-ups in my underwear

2: This is a New Year’s resolution

3: This is a disposable camera I never got developed

4: This is a shopping plaza

1: This is the fountain that is never on

2: This is the scum of the earth

3: This is the molten core of the earth

4: This is another planet just like Earth

1: This is the room going dark

Blackout. In the darkness, 5 enters.

2: This is a sound cue

A song begins to play.

The lights gradually return.

3: This is the twenty-six grams a soul weighs

4: This is the twenty-six grams a soul weighs

5: This is the 206 bones of the human body

1: This is the darkness of the tunnel

2: This is the weight of the ocean above you

3: This is cabin pressure

5: This is Earth without my mother

1: This is the shattered screen of an iPhone

2: This is me looking through your bookshelf

3: This is your bad eyesight

4: This is the blue hour

5: This is flesh