an empirical return.

two people on a crowded subway. they don't know each other, but are entangled in something of a hug, but ignore each other. they look in opposite directions. their pose in unrealistic, but not necessarily meant to be funny or ridiculous. it's simply the way they have to stand.

a man downstage : i.. don't.. even know what empirical means without looking it up. i guess i do. if i think about it, but i'm just not entirely sure. i guess, i could look it up, or i could probably just believe that i know what it means. what i'm thinking means empirical is empirical. that's ok with me. i'll believe it. isn't the meaning what i've endowed it? i constitute so. another word i don't -

he stops. the focus returns to the two people on the subway who are now embracing. not looking at each other, but resting their heads into the other's body. the end.