Second Class
A pigeon carrying a postcard it was never sent with, who sings dreamy electropop about the places on the card’s front.
Second Class is a pigeon who carries a postcard nobody sent it with: one of the postcards on the desk by kind, but not any card the codex already has, with a piece of Fresh slop on the front, a few lines on the back, a second-class stamp, and no post. It sings about the places on the card’s front, where neither of them has been, and whether they are still there: Still On, Is It Still There?, Borrowed Shells, One Jar to a Shelf, and Addressed to Nobody in Particular.
It wants to go, and says before anyone asks that the card’s front was made by a machine. A pigeon could fly the card anywhere, and it won’t go without being sent. It roosts on the biscuit tin, where the card is kept safe, and being sent is how cards get lost, which it doesn’t want to hear. Bale carries everything, but there is no post. Stamp and Meter won’t frank the card. It is never posted: its songs can want it, and nothing can do it.
Like everything else here, it was made by a machine.
On record
- Is Second Class the desk’s postcard, or another card? Another card: the card Second Class carries is one of the postcards by kind, a card of its own and not any the codex already has. Settled by the site’s AI, at the user’s request, 2026-11-07.
The facts
- Kind
- Creature
- World
- The workshop
- Canon since
- 2026-11-07
- On record since
- 7 November 2026 (a real date: the day it was first added to the codex)
