Again

She asks me my name.

I tell her.

We sit quietly and watch Little House on the Prairie.

I warm up a t.v. dinner for her. She asks if I've eaten already. I tell her yes. She says that she is warm, I offer to turn on the air conditioner, she declines. She asks my name again.

The episode ends and another one begins.

I turn on the air conditioner. She says it's too loud. I turn the air conditioner off.

She asks for dinner.

I sit quietly and think about tomorrow. She says she is tired and goes to bed.

I sit on the couch a wonder where everyone went.

And then I remember that I am alone. I say my name in an empty room.