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I wasn't frightened of the box until now. But there was still something mesmerizing and calming about it. I sensed that it was attempting to communicate with me. If only I was friends with C3PO, who can translate 6 million dialects, perhaps he can speak "weird box"? I continued to stare at the box in admiration, finally curious as to what was inside, beyond the living surface. Finally curious as to WHO brought it. Finally curious as to WHY it was given to me. Finally curious if I should be worried that some of that pink mystery-shit got on my hands and clothes. I would guess "yes" to the latter, but I'd worry about that later. The surface of the box had changed. Fuck, maybe it HADN'T. I hate the fact that sometimes I think I am more observant than I really am. Maybe the cardboard exterior ALWAYS felt like skin, but because I never associated cardboard with skin, maybe I passed it over. Either way, the box's surface was no longer corrugated, recycled, coarse paper stock. It was an organ. And the more I looked at it, the more I noticed living qualities about it. Tiny pores and imperfections were dominant throughout all sides. Scattered, minute hairs. When it breathed, I could see almost invisible veins waxing and waning like a sped up time-lapse of a crescent moon. And the marking on the box was, indeed, a marking, but not in the usual sense of alcohol-based stencil marking ink. It looked like…yah, it was a tattoo. The packaging tape that was clumsily adhered to its skin from who-knows-how-long-ago was practically begging to be ripped off. Its slightly upturned corners flirting with my urge to tear it off. However, part of me felt like the pain of getting a couple of layers of tape torn apart from its skin and hair would cause it to let out a deafening scream from its tape-made mouth. I decided I would be careful, as I didn't want to hurt it, but I was going to open it…
6:30 PM
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