Postcard from the Artist #3: My Scaly Aquaintance
a letter to the woman in the teal jeep, from the woman in the black hyundai
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To My Scaly Acquaintance,
We were racing along Highway 50.
Me in my nondescript black Hyundai Santa Fe, you in your teal Jeep; fishy figurines sprinkled along your dashboard, a tire cover announcing Mermaid Soul in curvy delight across a scaled print. We wove in and out of the fast lane. Not aggressively. More like a shared rhythm, a brief road-dance with the other nondescript cars around us.
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