• Vol. 07
  • Chapter 06

Might as well throw out this compass too

I tried to tell my child
about maps, that they were
once a thing, how they

were used; I tried to explain
that it was like a picture of
the earth, looking down, but

that was a much larger
conversation, as all my child
has seen of this world is

these two rooms and a
rumor of a window.

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