Three Weeks of Paper Stars

when I was in the mental hospital just making paper stars but I continued so this is probably

A hand pours and spreads an enormous pile of colorful folded paper stars across a bed. The joke is the absurdly literal escalation of making paper stars nonstop for weeks, turning a story about repetitive activity into an overwhelming mountain of tiny stars.

When I was in the mental hospital, the only thing I did was make paper stars. So I spent 12 to 16 hours every day just making paper stars. And there was this one girl and she would steal some of my paper stars. She'd sit next to me and put them in her pocket, but I continued to make the paper stars. I was there for one week and then I got let out. What did I do with my new freedom? I made more paper stars. I kept making paper stars. I made them till my fingers were sore. I made them until I could no longer fold the paper. And then after all of that I made more paper stars. So this is probably three weeks worth of paper stars. Every single one is a paper star.

• @antichirst / 15191 2024-01-03