2

2 is a child. 2 cannot speak, they can only write big letters in their small notepad. YES. WATER. CATASTROPHE. 2 fills up a yellow jar with juice before his body tightens up like a dead spider. 2 uses all pronouns because the gender of a pronoun does not define the gender of the object.

2 SENDS AN EMAIL

2 logs onto the family iPad with the password Dollhouse594. Every evening she sends an email to make sure her heart is known. 2’s fingers drag across the screen like it is made of sand. DEAR GRANDMA THANK YOU FOR YOUR EMAIL I AM WELL The ocean snaps up her words every time with a woosh.

2 IS AN AQUARIUS

2’s mom says they are a “dreamer” because at night they throw incisive snowballs and battle white bears on the moon. 2’s dad says it is because they were born in February.

2 TALKS TO WILBUR

2 has very few friends due to being homeschooled. 2's only friends are Lucy and Net who are brother and sister and also homeschooled. One cool thing about 2 is they have a hermit crab named Wilbur. When 2 is lonely, Wilbur runs to the glass of his tank. Wilbur and 2 communicate through morse code. 


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 2: IT IS CHALLENGING
Wilbur: It is an exasperated moment of life, the one you are currently in.
2: LUNCH TIME
Wilbur: We live in the infinite present.
2: AND THE COLOR
Wilbur: Where devastation lies is also paradise.
2: PARADISE
2: ?

2 FINDS AN ACORN

In the room of their hands they hold a brown bauble. 2 hopes it is from a white oak because white oak wood is good for sailing.

2 sets to work on a dirt bed for their acorn. GOODNIGHT

When you are small, a year is an incomprehensible amount of time. 2’s second birthday marked an arrival at the door of half of her life.

She vowed to measure tree growth every Sunday.

2 WRITES IN A JOURNAL

DON’T READ
examine this poem
i am closer to me
wilbur is inside the mirror
i am ugliness
i want to go
DON’T READ

2 shut the journal and plowed on, manifesting.

2 MAKES A MESS

2 cannot stop cracking eggs. 2 trips and flour goes everywhere. The pancakes bear an extreme density. 2 pools syrup over them to mitigate the circumstance. OOPS

2 IS SAD

Ten crumpled pages like toadstools around the room.

2 GOES TO BED

2 rustles under her blankets like an octopus darting across the sand.

2 TALKS TO WILBUR AFTER FAILING A MATH TEST

2: STUPID DUMB
Wilbur: Mistakes ennoble the human condition.
2: DON’T WANT
2: ME
Wilbur: To receive preciousness, we must be gentle with ourselves.
2: :(