In my dream I’m teaching a room full of students how to hang work while one tries to demonstrate how far beyond this particular lesson they are by rolling their eyes and scoffing.

In my dream M staffs the counter in the dim antique shop. One of the crowded trays holds a gaudy red fountain pen and a straight razor shaped like a woman’s leg, for shaving moustaches.

In my dream, disgusted with the arrival of several bratty younger wizards, I climb the stairs through the building, turning until I push onto the roof where clusters of people of color talk nervously. I gather the cardboard shields and think about the office.

In my dream it’s dark on the worn out club and around the walls hang sketches from the public service apology tour of the wastrel son of an oligarch. A blonde woman excitedly talks about redecorating the place with mirrors. A lawyer hangs up his phone and drowns himself in a cask of piss.