1 am prompt

What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?

My brain.

I could say any other part of my body, but sometimes I do nothing all day and make little to no use of my legs. I’ll go an entire weekend without muttering a word if I have the house to myself. I have the autopilot mechanisms that my body uses to stay alive, like breathing and pumping blood, but I don’t think it makes sense to say I use my lungs or heart. Those get used. Se usa el corazón. They use themselves.

Even to say I use my brain daily is a stretch. Some days I just watch TV. Often I misuse it. Abuse it. Se emborracha.

I do use my pillow to sleep with. And I use my cats for entertainment. Pero ellas son flojas. And cranky.

And now I will use the muscles in my face to close mis ojos y dormir.

Buenas noches, El Mundo. Sleep well.