wood-grain finish, extra varnish tarnished button tipped to the right. fighting urges surging through blue undoing years of misdirection unprotected table top dulled sits dusty rusted nails protruding slightly nightly visits from the drunken stunk up pressboard with cigar and beer nearly every inch a memory chemistry to delivery eating so many family meals dealing cards and outlining plans landing strip for wayward model airplanes painfully, I carry it out to the burn pile smiling slightly as a piece of history mysteriously drifts away as smoke –