Nobody's Return 01 Come back. …come have been back. The soles are still wet At first there were two, one standing here, one… One. One. Does this count as two By daylight I had already left Only after leaving did I see behind the door is bamboo, behind the bamboo That one, don't call her. She is passing through a place someone passed through. The water did not look up. Why is your face still here. Was it taken away. I remember taking it away. 02 Half a step. Another half step and it won't be this place anymore. Don't step across yet. That hand hasn't arrived. The fingers are here, the rest is in yesterday. Yesterday afternoon… no, at night. We just decided never to see each other again. Just now. Can forever be this close. Put it to one side. Put forever to one side for now. There is a chair on the rooftop. Whoever sits there is not the chair. Sometimes they are. She has had too much to drink. Her eyes haven't. What else do the eyes want. Wind. Just a little . Breath blows into crying, crying blows into a car, the car has already gone past, did you hear it. I'm not asking you Sit a little farther away. Now too far. 03 Nobody. No body. The body hasn't come. What came was… Don't read them as one. Whose back. The back side. All the backs suddenly lose their surnames. Turn around, still none. There is a little piece of face in the glass, when I wiped it, I wiped away the trees outside first. Why is the evidence warm Just held someone. Just passed by. That hand says it doesn't know. Then I don't know either. I'll not know on its behalf. What about the money. Save it. Don't use it. Wouldn't it be good to save money, never spend it, be a miser. Save what you want too. Each meeting leaves one less. Don't reach out so quickly. Will the interest hurt. A little every day, credited automatically at midnight. The pain is here again. Don't sign for it this time. A person is water. From up high down…inside the collar. Along the back, a little lower. A mark around the sock. Still there after you take it off. Don't spend. Where were we. Do we have to save the water too. 04 Entropy increases. Entropy decreases. Up. Down. I was still up high just now. Blocked there. Did you count the stone. Counted it. Count it again. Solve for the value. I'm begging you. The optimal solution. Untie it. online consultation online consultation these in studying eat more vegetables go to the toilet The path is already very long, the destination , haven't seen it. All along the way I have been It says, no. This offcut. Throw it. Throw it where Voluntary surrender says thus. Non-action. Is anyone doing non-action. Let the universe appear. A little appeared. Blocked again, whose sleeve. Thus it says. It says this way. Says. The finger-screen says thus. The screen has no fingers. It borrows mine. Swipe up. Swipe down. Farther down, your face passes beneath my fingerprint. I didn't tap. I only touched it. How does that count. Agree. Continue. Allow. Don't allow it on my behalf yet. Stuck. Not stuck. Cut. Can cut. That last one doesn't count. Again. Come back. Is it expensive. 05 Could you cost a little less when you come back. I have no other body to pay you with. I still have to wear this one. This one has to go out tomorrow. Stockings hang on the chair. The knees don't. Where are the knees. Scar. Smooth. A scar can be smooth too. Halfway through touching, mistook it. Don't correct it. Let it be mistaken for a while. Someone used to touch me this way. Or perhaps I touched someone else. My hand still hasn't washed off that direction. You say the left. My left is your— Turn it over. Not the whole person. Just turn over that last sentence. Inside. Outside. Inside outside. After coming back, the inside is still outside. Klein. Klei…bottle. Inside the bottle is someone who never went in. Möbius, mo— touch the other side, still this side. Don't draw me a diagram. My sleeve is twisted just like that. The sea is in the sleeve. Roll it up. The sea has moved into the bend of the elbow. A little higher, only skin left. Where is the shore. There used to be a home here. The bedpost grew into the tree. It won't move. Move the person on the bed. Then it isn't the same. Can what isn't the same come back too. 06 Odyssey. Oh, de… Oh, yes, it is. Is. Is. Don't agree yet. Weave a little by day, unpick a little by night. What came undone…there is still some under the tongue. The mouth moved first, the thread hasn't come. I said I was waiting. She said the seam has opened here. Stitch it. No, leave it. You can still see a little of yesterday through here. Yesterday woke very late. The face was behind the glass, I was behind the face, and there was another face that hadn't been used. You choose. Don't choose one that's too alike. Too alike and you can't come back. Only that ambigu… Simulation. Either. Either one will do. What about the third. Later all three had gone. 07 The chair did not stand up. Neither did I. The forest misremembered someone. One person's leaving was recorded on another person's waist. You only see it when they bend. Straighten up and it's gone. Bend a little more. I'm not telling you to be sad. I only want to see that little patch. Alive. Living, on. On what. Struggle. Mission. Calculation. Matrix. Heard it. Heard it. Any more. Tomorrow wants more. What, tomorrow already asked. Wishing. Being wished. Something very much wants me to keep sitting here. It won't sit. It thinks for me from behind, waits for me in front, watches through a little red dot to see if I've left. 08 I'm still here. Still here. Is that enough now. I turn the screen face down. The room lights up for a moment. Not the screen. Don't look for it. The forest is a sponge. Squeeze it. A few drops. Whose tears are so few. Have you kept some back. What for. Save them. Oh. If you don't cry, won't there be any less. 09 Don't go in. Keep your distance. Any closer and I won't be able to see you clearly. Don't listen together. I have another mouth on this side. It will eat you. After eating you it will stand in your place. Leaf touches leaf and makes words you never said. Don't record it. Even if it's recorded, it isn't necessarily that. The wind passes through here. Where do I pass through. I've only just remembered. What once passed through will once again— 10 The socks haven't dried. The future is already sitting there, in your seat, tapping its fingers twice. It says it has met me before. I don't look up. I know that face. Know it. But can't recognize it. Could you say the part I don't know again. A little softer. Softer. Don't explain the embrace. While holding, don't explain. Wait until you let go…speak after letting go. After letting go, forgotten again. 11 It's not that nobody returns. Returns what. Did I borrow you. For how long. Is some part still with you. Return. Still here. Give back. Or still. Why do these words all look the same. I sway. Appear. Don't appear. Perhaps a little, when the tree shadow moved just now. Why must we endure the torment of what has passed. I don't know. What if we don't endure it. The trouser cuffs are still wet. 12 Ambition as before. Solving for value as before. Desire went downstairs without a coat. I call after it. It says it isn't cold. It isn't me. Using my name again. River. Stone. Oh, here again. Pain hasn't lost its way. I have. Return. Kneel. The knees got there first. I still don't know where to go. Someone calls me from far away. By the time it reaches here, only a breath remains. I take the breath. No name. Can it be anyone's. Put it down for now. Don't mix them up. Already mixed. You. She. I. He. Say it again. More slowly. The I from just now is already she by the time it gets here. Behind her is another person, a hand on… Half a step. Not finished walking it. Are we still standing in that night. The traffic stopped. The crying didn't. The crying stopped. The tree didn't. Don't carry on for it. I've been back. So I've heard. The forest didn't lie. It remembered someone's leaving, with such force. Even the skin was pressed into a mark. Later the mark moved onto someone else. Sleep a little. Change sides again. Look. Not at the face. Here. Is this leaving. Or coming back. Can't tell by touch. Warm. 13 (Pause a little longer.) Cut. Nobody called action. I put my hand back. Not in the same place. Half a step off. Don't you— This hand. Take… Mm. That hand just now …