If all that was taken away, if money just existed, I’d probably just lie in a sunny slope, drink beer and crack bad jokes all day. Yes.

When my friend and I had filled a bucket with perch we rowed ashore. We made a fire and had coffee. My friend told me he had a job interview that Monday. If only he got that job, everything would sort itself out. I was about to move flats. On my way to something different.