worlds most beautiful puzzle
Item:
The World’s Most Beautiful Jigsaw Puzzle, dolphin edition.
Why It’s Here:
Because it was just. too. beautiful. Too much to behold, too much to fathom; the dolphins glistened so brightly, the airbrushed waves swayed preternaturally even in the dim tungsten light of the previous owner’s studio apartment.
Whole, it taunted them with its beauty: and so they broke it into a thousand pieces! But shame overcame them, and so they created this box, as both house and explanation, confession and container, and left it in the laundry room for another, stronger soul to piece back together.
Probable Recipient:
Some old lady with too much time on her hands.
And the thing is:
that you just know it’s missing like three pieces, but you don’t want to sit down and count out the pieces one by one ahead of time—a thousand of them!—and so you just try to put the damn thing together, and all the while it’s there in the back of your mind, itching at you: there’s going to be a piece missing. There’s going to be a piece missing.