Everyday Yeah one-thousand and thirty-six

I woke to Everyday Yeah backing up a rental van to the backdoor of the house. I asked if he was going to pull the van inside so we could load everything up. No one answered me. There was someone on the couch with a box of donuts. It didn’t look like the van would fit inside the apartment. There was a ceiling fan and linoleum. The van would probably wreck the linoleum. Everyday Yeah stopped three inches from the door frame and put the van in park. The person on the couch said, “I think we should move the couch last.” Everyday Yeah kicked the back left tire of the van when he saw how close he was to the doorframe. The guy on the couch was eating a chocolate frosted donut. I watched while he took a bite and swallowed and then took another bite. Everyday Yeah turned the van back on and backed up another inch and a half.

It took twenty-five minutes to load the van. I put a box of glass dishes in a place where they wouldn’t break. No one saw me place them in the van. If they happened to break I wouldn’t admit I put them in the van. I would have shrugged my shoulders. They didn’t break. When we began unloading the van I said, “Well, I guess I put these dishes in a good spot. None of them broke.”

Everyday Yeah and I drove the van across the river. There was a bridge. We stopped next to a park and unloaded everything under a tree. When the van was empty Everyday Yeah drove back to the old apartment. I stayed with all the stuff in the park. I sat on the couch under the tree.

At ten people began leaving the house next to the park and walking over to all the stuff piled under the tree. They all asked if I was having a yard sale. I said, “No, it’s just a moment of transition. We’re kind of between offices.”

Someone’s father pulled onto the curb next to the park. He drove a midsized SUV. There was a trailer attached to the back. He got out of the SUV and opened the doors of the trailer. He seemed proud of his trailer. He climbed in and took a deep breath. A girl came out of the house carrying a box. She put the box in the trailer. After she set it down she said, “I think this was a horse trailer.” The father said, “Could be. Bill lent it to me.”

Around noon the guy who had been sitting on the couch eating donuts pulled up in a ’97 Saturn. He leaned out the window and handed me a meatball sub. I got off the couch and took it from him. Then I went back to the couch and sat down. He drove away.

At three o’clock three boys ran by. A few minutes later they came back and said, “Can I have that bike.” They were pointing at a bike under the tree. I shook my head. They ran away.

It began to get dark around 7:30. There was more stuff piled under the tree next to the park. The house was still being emptied. The father and the trailer were tired. Everyday Yeah said, “One of the people moving in has a cat. It is not going to be pleasant. I am going to live on the second floor. That will be pretty good. I’ll be able to run around naked. No one else will be on the second floor. They’ll all live on the first floor with the cat.”