DELETE
By Michelle Lane
Fred and Adam sit in an open
space. Very little is there other than a trash can and some paper they are
throwing in.
FRED
Does this paper still exist if I crumple it up?
ADAM
Of course it does idiot.
FRED
But it’s not paper…not like we think of paper that is.
ADAM
This is like basic science shit. You can change the state of
the matter but it won’t go away. They’re always equal to each other. Like ice
and water and water vapor.
FRED
But it doesn’t seem like paper anymore. Its like as I do
this…
FRED
crumples a paper
It changes from paper to garbage.
ADAM
It’s still paper.
FRED
When you think of paper what do you see?
ADAM
Printer paper. Like a plain sheet.
FRED
And what is this?
FRED holds out the paper ball
before throwing it at ADAM.
ADAM
It’s a paper ball.
FRED
Not paper.
ADAM
No, paper in the form of a ball. But still made of paper.
FRED
It’s like another state of matter.
ADAM
What are you on?
FRED
When something stays the same, but changes to us. Like a
human state. Or a mental state. Or a changed state.
Look, when you have a car, and you crash the car, it is
still a car. But it’s now a BAD car or BROKEN car as apposed to the NICE car you
had before. When a dog dies, you still have a dog but you now have a DEAD dog.
Its like a state we put things in.
ADAM
That doesn’t apply to everything though.
FRED
Like what?
ADAM
What if you get rid of something?
FRED
Like…?
ADAM
Like a paper. If I take this. And this.
ADAM takes a sheet of paper and a
lighter out of his pants.
And I set this on fire.
ADAM
does so.
What was, is now gone. It does not exist in what we can see.
It’s like a removal state.
FRED
But the ashes exist.
ADAM
You’re telling me that if I burn something, if I destroy
something, it still exists?
FRED
Basic science idiot.
ADAM
What about destroying the idea of it?
FRED
Like what?
ADAM
You die, right? You physically are still here until you
decompose and stuff. But I think of you as dead. As not living. As nothing but
a spirit or a figment of a memory. You are nothing.
FRED
The nothing state.
ADAM
The nothing state. When you physically are around but
mentally destroyed. You as an individual are nothing.
FRED
That’s a scary thought. Like being deleted from the universe
or something.
ADAM
Exactly. The object or individual in question is spiritually
and emotionally deleted to themselves and to others.
FRED
Deleted.
ADAM and FRED then get deleted
from the world.
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