Small and Inanimate

#1

I'm the present tied in brown paper and string. I'm the slosh of school shoes in monsoon mud. I'm the Fruitzee bread-omelette, and the last paneer in the palak-paneer.

I'm the joy found in simple things.

#2

I am faded carbon paper, an old typewriter, and an umbrella with a curved handle. I am a handwritten postcard, and the clothes left behind by a student leaving for college.

I'm the memory of times that were not better, but definitely simpler; I'm the small difference made by big sacrifices.

#3

I'm the dinosaur game in Google Chrome -- the limbo between procrastination and productivity.