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title: Snow
genre: prose
project:
title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
css: paul
order: 23
next:
- title: Reports
link: reports
- title: Stagnant
link: stagnant
previous:
- title: Man
link: man
- title: Shed
link: shed
...
_I don't care if they burn_ he wrote on his last blank notecard. He'd have to
go to the Office Supply Store tomorrow after work.
He looked at what he'd written. He'd been thinking about this for a while,
felt the frustration build slowly like a thundercloud in the back of his mind.
He thought he should write something else on the card, but everything he
thought of seemed too confessional or too real compromising. He didn't want
anyone, not even the notecards, to know what he was thinking. He decided to
try for more of an interview with the paper.
_Why?_ asked the notecard. _Because there is nothing important on any of
them_ he wrote back. _What do you mean? You have some good stuff in that top
drawer there._ He looked in the top drawer. It was stuffed full of notecards
in no organization. He could see bits and pieces of thoughts like leaves
crunched underfoot in autumn. _It will take so much organization_ he wrote.
_Why is organization important? Remember the trees, how they formed rows
without trying. No matter how the ideas fall, they make something. The snow
does that too_ he wrote. _It doesn't try to make anything but it does._
_No the snow is different_ the notecard was annoyed. _The snow is a blank
canvas that humans build into shapes or doppelgangers. It makes nothing on
its own._
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