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What is this?

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A light finger running along this old wood grain. A table; plank of wood on stilts, laid out before the eyes of consumers... wanting to sit upright and tall, looking out across their comfort. What is this? Once a tree; jagged splinters so much paler beneath the thick varnish - thick slobbering of chemicals - some man with lung cancer or throat cancer or some disease. What is it? Become so infused with hatred for that which serves no function but the comforts and aesthetic senses of over-brained animals - of Martha Stewart. What is this piece of mangled wood that is so twisted from its original form that you can barely tell it once grew from the earth? All the lacquered wood, and the big televisions and designer toys.
Oriental rugs.
Wine glasses.
Etched in the wood, ground in over years: embossing of homework through the pages; dents of a mixing bowl gripped by small hands; the varnish worn down in the middle from the meals placed on it again and again.
What is this?
The is the second of my 5 Minute Stories.

A cynical complaint on materialism that comes back on itself with a startling realization.
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