4OE

An empty dining room table

sits in an empty dining room.

 

The lights are off - nobody home.

A small, wooden bowl

 

sits in the middle of the smoothly polished table.

It sits there, has sat there, and will sit there for some time.

 

It has no past or future - only the present,

and in this present, there is nothing else,

 

only a small, dark room, with an empty table,

and an empty bowl.