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Today, I woke up with a persistent buzz inside my head. I knew immediately that a shift in my world happened, a not-so subtle change. It was not in the morning news but I noticed even before rising that the pillows on my bed were already conferring with each other, trading rumors in whispers.

While having my breakfast, the bowl I took from the shelf stared back with a knowing, malicious look on its face. As I poured milk on my oatmeal and muesli they let out a clear giggling sound – was it them or the buzz in my head – and they only stopped when they saw me looking. Poets have claimed that rivers sing, but I swear that today it was the faucet that I heard, releasing a melody that the sink gladly embraced. Even the fan nodded its agreement: today I woke up with a psychedelic buzz inside my head.

Outside, while walking to my office, a jogger leaped, landed in India, and discovered that the origin of butterflies and lovers is the same. Today, the traffic light dismantled itself and discarded its lights, replacing them with images of the vast sky and summer sunsets. The alley cats walked on walls, declared their sovereignty, and marched for the moon. The newsboy sold tabloids that screamed poetry in red. I must have wondered out loud about the dazzling buzz in my head because the sun suddenly issued its ruling, final and executory: love cannot be denied.

As a man of reason, I chose to ignore it all. I walked past the cheering crowd that greeted the decision. The clouds declared a holiday and turned themselves into feathers; I skipped their celebration. I went to my office, poured myself a cup of coffee. Its blackness was defiantly jubilant. I drank it anyway, bottoms up, reciting in my mind its sour bitterness. It was only then, in the stillness of the room, that the buzz in my head revealed its syllables: all along it was saying your name, your name, your name.

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