Classification Pending by D.G.

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A cold-polished literary anomaly by D. G.

CLASSIFICATION PENDING

Out now from Chained Pen Clearinghouse.

From a tax sale auction to a Mexican hermitage to the hallowed halls of MuchMusic. A restrained look at the ways we are classed.

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It's all about the catalogue,

and how we are placed.

Tagging every item in an old hotel.

But the inventory didn't stop at objects.

THREE SYSTEMS.
TWO CHOICES.
ONE DOSSIER.
ZERO PLACEMENT.

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Every now and then I caught myself slowing. Looking too closely. Letting an object linger in my hands longer than it needed to. Each time, I corrected myself. Set it down. Kept moving.

Nothing protested.

I found it in a milk crate full of old menus. A guest book. Leather cracked at the spine. Names, dates, short notes written for no one in particular. Some were careful. Some rushed. Others written like someone might actually come back to read them later.

I didn’t read long enough for it to mean anything more than words on a page.

I pulled a tag and tied it to the crate.