open/a_long_division.md
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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
of a crayon colored number {2}
past the weathered wooden deck
into a damp winter-gray
into a winter-gray
yard.
Color, sleeping since fall, made a stand against the season
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ on that spot(•),
that crayon colored {2}
that he had let some part of himself oversleep.
that crayon colored {2}
was:
was===
more than just a happy reminder
of everything that he had===
more than just a simple cut out
@@ -48,18 +48,19 @@ As he stood THERE(|) looking out and over
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===
that was just now emerging
from the fog of a unfortunately warm
just now emerging
from the fog of
an unfortunately warm
January mist.
Perhaps (if !=he) stood THERE(|?) in parallel.
Perhaps he stood THERE(|?) in parallel.
Perhaps THERE(|?) was a former future version of himself
THERE(|?) next to him thinking less technically
about the color of the
yard.
It would be / had to be him,
him as a splinter of time.
if It=him at all
It(!===him) but (him = "splinter of time")
The two of them stood THERE(||)
looking out through sliding glass