sidewalk_furniture
tender_square a stair-step bookcase with a series of descending cubes, in the most incredible copper patina, outside the dumpster of an elementary school. i wanted it even though i have no room for it, even though it would be too big for the car. i tried lifting it; turns out it’s metal. that fucker is heavy. how they got it out of the school is beyond me. 211220
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tender_square a wicker bookshelf with a curved top. it was passed out on a neighbor's front lawn. i assume the wicker must have snapped somewhere, but my brain won't let the piece go until i know for sure. 220118
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past the top of a bench showing black and shiny through yesterday's snow, though the rest won't be seen again until spring. 220118
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tender_square a staid oakwood dining table found on the corner fernwood street without its offspring of chairs. 220415
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tender_square saggy loveseats wait for butts on busy corners. a new way for singles to meet matches perhaps? 220511
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kerry a sectional sofa with white jacquard upholstery, in front of tina’s house. she just turned 96 and she’s finally selling the house where she was born. 220512
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raze a plush recliner. grey streaked with black, pink, and green. a designer's abstract daydream. a brighter, brasher cousin to my memory of a couch that spent most of my childhood parked in the living room of my mother's house. the chair straddled the sidewalk and the shoulder of edinborough street. it was a little dirty. a little faded. a little bit of an eyesore. it was a lot like me. i sat in it just for something to do. a poorly patched crack in the pavement made a misshapen semicircle behind me. my feet fell onto a grid of squares that led nowhere.

i could have sat there all day. 		220529
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tender_square a grey bathroom vanity with four drawers and room for a double sink, a free leftover from a garage sale that went unsold. 220606
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raze a blue box_spring leaning against a tree. 220607
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tender_square an unfinished wooden side table the shade of oatmeal. my neighbours across the street left it out in the overnight rain; i’d like to take it but i worry it’s forever warped by weather. 220614
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raze an unvarnished ladderback chair and a hamster cage at the corner of richmond_and_chilver. 220614
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tender_square (i went back for the wooden side table this morning before it got rained on for a second time. it's staying in the basement, waiting for the perfect place to live.) 220616
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raze two identical conference chairs with swivel bases, faultless and white. 220620
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raze a despondent-looking old table and a faded yellow plastic chair (the kind we used to find in grade school classrooms). 220623
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tender_square a disassembled wooden bed frame, headboard coated in a cover of ten years' dust. 220624
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raze the chair and table combo moved to the opposite side of the street. now they're hanging out in a small parking lot. i'd like to know how that internal monologue went.

"i'm not taking these bad boys home with me. but i could really use a rest. i don't want to sit here, though. there's too much shade. what i need is some sunburn in my life. i know! i'll drag them over *here* instead. there. that's better." 		220625
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tender_square a velvet tufted couch the colour of crushed dandelion, seat cushions snagged by an earlier passerby. 220629
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tender_square a navy wingback chair, arms cat clawed, antimacassar dangling off the remaining tacks. 220702
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tender_square a long and low dresser, its sagging top drawer like a fat lip, the veneer painted over with soft, feminine flowers. 220706
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tender_square a beige armchair slouching towards obsolescence. 220715
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tender_square a light blue fainting couch on its eighth day of blackout binge. 220729
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tender_square a series of wooden seats with elaborate backrests and dusty cushions, in a line at the curb waiting for a game of musical chairs to commence. 220806
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tender_square a fold-out table waiting for a purpose. 220813
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tender_square a lightweight metal desk with a faux wood top and a dusty side pocket i took for my own. it’s the second desk i’ve found at the side of the road in the tiny condo neighbourhood that i’ve rescued for writing. 220814
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kerry a broken mirror (who would honestly dare to take on this burden?) 220814
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tender_square a naked wooden dresser that was unashamed about losing its drawers. 220817
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tender_square a kitchen storage cabinet dumped by the overgrown bushes off the middle school football field. 220828
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tender_square a wardrobe leans on its side, one door splayed to show off its unclad chest. 220914
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raze a black leather loveseat with scoliosis. 220920
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raze a dispirited sofa abandoned to the boulevard halfway between kildare and tecumseh road east, its saffron skin blemished but unbroken. 220921
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tender_square a framed reflective rectangle showing the sky how lovely it is. 221001
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raze a lovelorn lamp steadying itself in indifferent autumn leaves too young yet to know what they are. each nodule in its neck a transparent talisman. 221005
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tender_square a plum purple vanity with its sink still intact though its drawers were derailed. 221120
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raze a discarded settee shivering on parent avenue. 221212
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tender_square a beige sofa bereft of its back-supporting cushions. 221220
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tender_square two soggy velour sofas sixty-nineing in the open air on pilette for passerby to gawk. 230119
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raze a plastic patio chair, its chin pressed against the half-frozen forehead of a garbage pail in a gesture pitched somewhere between love and desperation. 230201
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tender_square two scuffed up leather chairs having an extended tête-à-tête by a 30-minute parking zone. 230207
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kerry a wooden end table with an oval marble top 230208
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tender_square a pink plastic bistro set with swollen legs. 230416
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raze another chair with a swivel base. this one is black and napping just across_the_street, waiting for some stranger to stir it from its slumber. 230417
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tender_square a sagging middle-aged and overweight chair and two stout dressers. 230514
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raze a tattered table and two rickety chairs painted lime green, huddled together on the boulevard that borders seneca street. 230904
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tender_square two twin tall, skinny particle board cabinets. the only way to differentiate between them was that one had a paper towel holder jutting from its hip where the other didn't. 230904
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raze a fictile white chair toppled over just off of walker road, having lost the strength to stand. 231020
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raze a primeval weight bench shivering a few houses down from where i used to live. 231112
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raze a capsized freezer, gutted and sweating in the afternoon sun. 240622
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raze a toilet that looked like it had never been used. 240911
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raze a white faux-wicker patio chair. 240918
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raze an extracted bathroom sink. 240923
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raze a plastic staircase. 240928
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