I sat down and opened the brand standards deck.
The flowers sat six inches to my left the entire afternoon. White and pale green and that one burgundy stem he had chosen deliberately, which meant he had stood somewhere and looked at an arrangement and said that one, the burgundy, put that in, and now it was on my desk and the card was in my jacket pocket and I read the same paragraph in the deck six times and the words did not change and neither did the flowers.
I took them home that night.
The subway with
the arrangement on my lap, both arms around it, a woman across from me smiling at them. I looked at the dark tunnel wall going past and held
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