Talking With Yourself

100 word monologue

“Hey buddy, how've you been?”
“Not bad, how 'bout yourself?”
“I'm alright,” the man paused and drew a breath. “Are you talking to yourself?”
“Yeah, I am.”
“That's odd, don't you think?”
“No. You keep on responding, I'll keep on talking.”
“Gets a bit lonely, doesn't it?” he breathed.
“I suppose, but it's alright with me.”
“There are other people.”
“True,” he inhaled, “but as I see it, you've got me and that little stick, as long as you're breathing, you'll be alright.”
“Truth.”
And the man kept talking and the man kept replying and everyone was breathing just fine.