• with my Thoughts (why? where would this lead? what matters most? who could it be so? how to undo what’s been done?)
• with my Memories (faded pics, inanimate objects, old posts, events, places)
• in a One’s wake (who’s that? that’s not possible…unchartered prayers, hi, hello, goodbye? do i know you?)
• on Halloween nights (creepy noises, creaking doors, dogs a-howling, flickering lights and candles, intermittent power supply, horror TV flicks)
• or for that matter… Special Occasions (Christmas eve, birthday eve, birthday itself, New Year’s eve)

But wait, you need to enjoy your own company sometimes

Yeah, yeah

I could laugh without being branded a mental case

I could discard nuisance things, old and new

I could attend wake at my own pace, like after the interment, probably?

I could ignore those unwarranted spine-tingling, hair-raising scenarios, switch channels or just turn the TV off?

I could, of course, I could

If talking to myself and arguing at that is a worse case of dreadfulness?

I could be left alone then…