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== A second-best bed ==

[[File:Raw bed.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px]]

[[File:Raw bed.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px|Sideways bed on the street is suddenly looking good]]

[[File:Bed remnants.jpg|thumb|400x400px]]

[[File:Bed remnants.jpg|thumb|400x400px|After a few days, bones are picked clean to bleach in the rain]]

A year or two passes. But one crappy afternoon I stumbled across a huge oak bed on the street. Having spent my youth observing city trash floes, I recognized this for the incredibly attractive nuisance it is and I rushed home to get the tools to dismantle it. Indeed, by the time I returned, scavengers or vandals had chewed or stomped a dozen of the sticks out and... I'm curious what the stumps could even be used for: firewood, a small dishtowel rack, jagged ski poles for a baby? It's cold and dark out and I'm doing something ambiguous in public, it's not my place to ask these questions. I unscrewed what remained, tossed the sticks into an innocuous getaway stroller and walked back home hunched over my prize.

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 == A second-best bed ==
-[[File:Raw bed.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px]]
+[[File:Raw bed.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px|Sideways bed on the street is suddenly looking good]]
-[[File:Bed remnants.jpg|thumb|400x400px]]
+[[File:Bed remnants.jpg|thumb|400x400px|After a few days, bones are picked clean to bleach in the rain]]
 A year or two passes.  But one crappy afternoon I stumbled across a huge oak bed on the street.  Having spent my youth observing city trash floes, I recognized this for the incredibly attractive nuisance it is and I rushed home to get the tools to dismantle it.  Indeed, by the time I returned, scavengers or vandals had chewed or stomped a dozen of the sticks out and... I'm curious what the stumps could even be used for: firewood, a small dishtowel rack, jagged ski poles for a baby?  It's cold and dark out and I'm doing something ambiguous in public, it's not my place to ask these questions.  I unscrewed what remained, tossed the sticks into an innocuous getaway stroller and walked back home hunched over my prize.