if you haven't yet left

it’ll be perfect.

the bed will go over
under the window there
and the sofas wherever.
I may have shattered some
of the China, but
wasn’t it a bit
tacky anyhow?
look, I bet
you didn’t notice
the garden—
wild tomatoes!

and you’ve already met Ein:
very un-wiener and almost
housebroken—
lazy with the rats but
somehow endeared.
kind of like me, eh?

yeah, thanks;
I like it too. Oh,
the house next-door…
I hadn’t really checked.

why don’t you stay here?
we’ll go have a look
there in a year
or so.