Continued from Part 6:
From the other room, perhaps an entire house away, her voice dissected his momentary cat like happiness.
“What do you think about painting the bedroom walls midmorning blue?”
He had no time for colors nor conversation but he knew he would have to reply at some time, a sound, a grunt, a yes-no, a post card, a go-stab-yourself-in-the-eye-with-a-blue-prismacolor, but he remained quite, hoping that with enough time the voice would disappear and resurrect his silent weightlessness from its all too human grave.
After a few dense moments passed, he drifted over to the freezer and took a long pull of sleep greaser, his favorite suppressive spirit. He let the warmth flow throw through his nose and around his neck along his spine and into his ears. A string of words flew from his mouth but he wasn’t sure if he had said them or someone who sounded a lot like him had screamed them from behind the refrigerator while he had mouthed the words. Soon, he heard some soft crying, a series of shufflings, and doors being molested open and closed.
He took a deep breath held it while he poured a large quantity of his favorite heart warming elixir and quickly encumbered the lot, but he didn’t feel any closer to anything or anyone, nor did he feel any happier about being so close to the root of all his illusioned displeasures. He drank in his solitude and slowly lied down face first onto the cool linoleum kitchen floor as the sound of a car slowly driving out of the driveway filled his stomach with a type of unrest unknown to him forthright, at which point he somberly passed into sleep.

