— letter · unsent · ix

new year's eve · steady hand · sent: no

to myself, in ten years

open · 2034

you —

by the time you read this you will have decided whether to keep the flat. i hope you kept it. the kitchen tile under the sink is loose. i never told anyone.

also, the third drawer.

i was, today, afraid of three things: the wrong one, the unwritten one, and the small one in the corner of the room. i suspect you have outgrown two of them and grown into the third.

be kinder to her. she meant well.

i mean me. i meant me.

— yours, with strange affection,

you, younger

not sent because, of course, the post office does not yet deliver into the future. filed in a drawer, instead, with a note saying do not open until — which the writer, two weeks later, opened.

me you always a drawer to a father

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