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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
past the weathered wooden deck
into a damp winter-gray
yard.
Color, sleeping since fall, made a stand against the season
as streaks of yellow swing chains
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.
Waiting for the coffee and letting the morning
spill into him one note
at a time,
he realized,
THERE(|)
on that spot(•),
looking out and over
that crayon colored {2}
that he had let some part of himself oversleep.
that crayon colored {2}
was:
more than just a happy reminder
of everything that he 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
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===
that was just now emerging
from the fog of a unfortunately warm
January mist.
Perhaps (if !=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.
The two of them stood THERE(||)
looking out through sliding glass
only just now becoming aware
of each other.
They lived two of many worlds
impossible and unknowable
and cosmically remote. Yet they were
THERE(|) together alone with only images
for communication. Impressions,
a shared qualia
so fine
so particular
yet not necessarily solitary
a current along some unidentifiable field.
The coffee was ready.
One drip, one press
one dark, one blonde
one mug, one cup
one milk
one sugar.