was walkingreading Underland Robert MacFarlance   an had to pullupstep aside take a pen from behind his ear to scribble on a piece of paper he tucked inside the book before heading out in case he came across something that caught his eye dumbfounded him

he was easy prey iron filing to a magnet

                                            Geologists and palaeobiologists speak of trace fossils. A trace fossil is the sign left in the rock record by the impress of life rather than life itself. A dinosaur footprint is a trace fossil.

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marks that the dead and the missed leave behind 

                                                     handwriting on an envelope 

when he was dead he will have left thousands of pages  paper   unfortunately 2D

2D is why he refused to participate  to Skype Face-time   ZOOM 

                                                                      he was three-dimensional being  3D

he was adamant

                   dead and gone he wanted his family friends lovers people he knew to recall him as 3D they could flesh him out in their memories he didnt mind if they teased him out in letters postcards book inscriptions photographs they however grew more and more rare the older he got

he wasnt going to play the easypeasy forgettable game of appearing on screen

                                                                                    unageing images 

false

authenticity moved himwas his brand    

                                               his trace fossil

after 1PM,  Thursday,  31  8. 23

1852, Thursday

Dire Straits  Wild West End  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mfz4393NA