I. Ten real answers to fictional questions Why we women get oven burns 8 Why on bad days we look at holiday photos 10 Why it shouldn't rain on Sunday nights 12 Why we talk when we talk about love 14 Why it's urgent to get out on the road 16 Why remedies over time betray us 18 Why it is advisable to read in bars 20 Why we must reconstruct ourselves all the time 22 Why when I like a song a lot I need to print the lyrics 24 Why if they knock me down a thousand times I get up 26 II. The imperfect is our paradise Kayak 30 Love poem 32 To a god unknown 34 The taxi stops at the lights 36 Rothkos 38 Sunday noon 40 Shadow 42 Good morning, Kenneth 44 I wake up at 6 46 Month 48 Iguazú 50 Iguazú: says my daughter 52 You are here 54 To be in a museum 56 Reading DL on the 108 58 They zoom into photos in a chat 60 They walk seven blocks to the subway 62 They are blinded for a second whilst correcting a poem 64 They try out things on holiday 66 They make their voices vibrate at 6 68 They interrupt our talk to do something urgent 70 They peer into potted plants and confirm their beliefs 72 III. Translation of the route Ma 76 Thursday, nighttime 78 I once again held a lemon in my hand 80 We turned onto Libertador 82 Dinner 84 The origin 86 What is that lovely book 88 The dark things 90 The fragile things 92 My daughter likes the wind 94 In front of the bay of San Juan in Puerto Rico 96 Clearing 98 Reminder from sanity 100 My baby 102 Down Loíza Road (with Mara and Nicole) 104 Scene 106 Late in the afternoon 108 Far from home 110 Williams and me 112 So much depends 114 How it is 116 My son tells me his dream on our way to school 118 When we travel, time expands: 120 Translation of the route 122 About the authors 126.