The Old hall clock made of galvanized steel,oh, I had to have that. The Klipsk shelving
unit, oh, yeah.
Hemlig hat boxes. Yes.
The street outside my high rise was sparkling and scattered with all this.
The Mommala quilt cover set. Designed by Thomas Harila and available in the
following.
Orchid,
Fuschia
Cobalt
Ebony,
Jet,
Eggshell
or Heather
It took my whole life to buy this stuff.
The easy care textured lacquer of my Kalix occasional tables.
My steg nesting tables.
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa i will ever need in my life. Buy
the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least
you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishesThen the perfect bed.The
drapes.The rug.
Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own
you.
Until i got home from the airport. The doorman steps out the shadows to say, there’s been
an accident.The police, they were here and asked a lot of questions.
The police think maybe it was the gas. Maybe the pilot light on the stove went out or a
burner was left on, leaking as, and the gas rose to the ceiling a, and the gas filled the
condo from ceiling to floor in every room. The condo was seventeen hundred square feet
with high ceilings and for days and days, the gas must’ve leaked until every room was
full. When the rooms were filled to the floor, the compressor at the base of the
refrigerator clicked on.
Detonation.
The floor to ceiling windows in the aluminum frames went out and the sofas and the
lamps and dishes and sheet sets in flames, and the high school annuals and the diplomas
and telephone. Everything blasting out from the fifteenth floor in a sort of solar flare.
Oh not my refrigerator. I’d collected shelves of different mustards, some stone ground,
some english pub style. There were fourteen different flavours of fat-free salad dressings
, and 7 kinds of capers.
I know, I know, a house full of condiments and no real food.