Sometimes it is found sitting precariously in the middle of the road, only to infuriate passing drivers.  You carefully wrap it up just to be torn open in a flash of paper and color. You could find refuge in one from the rain.  You may have to slice it open or somehow yank staples out of it.  You generally see more on your birthday and at Christmas, or if you order something new it might end up in one on your doorstep.  You could eat a picnic on or in one, or if it's strong enough you could sit on it.  It may be your pet's favorite plaything.  It could be the stage for a puppet show.  It may hold your dirtly laundry.  You can fold the flaps in or stack things on top to keep it shut.  You can flatten it and slide down a snowy hill on it.  You can turn it into a rocketship, a mask, a wagon, a costume.  You carefully store away your belongings in it to move or keep safe. It can be full of bubble wrap or colorful packing peanuts.  You find the electric outlet in it. It can carry a new computer monitor, or junk you'd like to donate.  If a man loves a woman he might give her one. You gather fruit in it and load it onto trucks. You get new shoes in it. It can be of cardboard, paper, wood, plastic, leather, metal, concrete. It is used in businesses, schools, homes, stores.  You can carry pets in it.  You can bury things and people in it.  It can be any color.  It can have stripes or polka-dots, or it could even be transparent.  It can have a bow or string, stickers or paint, letters or arrows, decorative wrappings or nothing.  It can be plain or fancy, contain something beautifully wonderful, or horendously distasteful, something very sentimental or then again, nothing at all.  It can be bigger than your refrigerator, or small as your fingernail.  But in some ways, at least, it is always the same.  A box will always have a top and bottom, four sides and eight pointy corners.  It can always contain something and is a very curious, yet simple thing.