Dear The Future,
I wrote all this out for you, so you'd know how it was back then. But, it was lost, misplaced, and so it has remained, missing for three years. I am going to start again, from the beginning.
Here is how it really was: I was put into the care of two nice people, as a baby. My real parents' were a raven and a rainstorm. For a long time it confused me that the two nice people would tell me to 'be quiet' and not to be 'bossy,' because these words made no sense in my language. Still, we got on well enough.
I spent an enormous amount of time waiting; in cars, in parking lots. It's funny though, because I like sitting in cars, and I like parking lots too; even though there was so much time spent in them. I used to look up at the cream colored headliner of the car's backseat, and focus beyond it; the perforations in the vinyl would move towards me; I tried to get the pattern of dark holes to descend close enough to touch my nose.
When the car was moving, the moon was always with me, following for hours, never overtaking, never slipping behind, always right there.
When moving, in this way, there were so many wonderful intersections! The airplane going crosswise, just over the tip of the pine, the train on the overpass just when I was under; all these amazing nodes of space and time. Anyway, that's what I saw, and that is how I began to think.
