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## a long division
He stood in front of sliding glass looking out and over the pink
of a crayon colored number {2}
I stood in front of sliding glass looking
out and over the manufactured
pink of a crayon colored number two
past the weathered wooden deck
into a winter-gray
yard.
Color, sleeping since fall, made a stand against the season
as streaks of yellow swing chains
Color, sleeping since fall, made it's stand
against the season in the bright
yellow streaks of a common wooden playset
unused and moved only by wind
at the back of the
yard.
{The new year had come and it brought with it all the new things that years will bring.}
There were:
1. new television shows,
2. new books,
3. new recordings,
4. new people,
5. new money,
6. new lists,
things to do / never do again.
Yes, there were long / rambling
lists / things that had
never been that now are.
The new year had come and it brought with it
new television shows,new books new
recordings of new people with new money,
new and rambling lists of things
to do or never do
again.
Waiting for the coffee and letting the morning
spill into him one note
spill into me one note
at a time,
he realized,
I realized,
THERE(|)
on that spot(•),
looking out and over
that crayon colored {2}
that he had let some part of himself oversleep.
that I had let some part of mymself oversleep.
that crayon colored {2}
was===
more than just a happy reminder
of everything that he had===
of everything that I had===
more than just a simple cut out
beginning to 2013===
more than a happy new year.
As he stood THERE(|) looking out and over
As I stood THERE(|) looking out and over
that crayon colored {2}
he was looking forward to be sure.
But there was some critical part of him===
some memory of the person he used to want to be===
I was looking forward to be sure.
But there was some critical part of me===
some memory of the person I used to want to be===
just now emerging
from the fog of
an unfortunately warm
January mist.
Perhaps he stood THERE(|?) in parallel.
Perhaps THERE(|?) was a former future version of himself
THERE(|?) next to him thinking less technically
Perhaps I stood THERE(|?) in parallel.
Perhaps THERE(|?) was a former future version of myself
THERE(|?) next to me thinking less technically
about the color of the
yard.
if It=him at all
It(!===him) but (him = "splinter of time")
If it was me at all it was
not exactly me but me as
a splinter of time
The two of them stood THERE(||)
The two of us stood THERE(||)
looking out through sliding glass
only just now becoming aware
of each other.
They lived two of many worlds
We lived two of many worlds
impossible and unknowable
and cosmically remote. Yet they were
and cosmically remote. Yet we were
THERE(|) together alone with only images
for communication. Impressions,
a shared qualia