half drawn from an old issue of national geographic while waiting at the mechanic for my car to get fixed.

I felt like a bear all day.

It's true about the mermaid thing; maybe it's what i was supposed to be. Also, a medal we won for being 22 and not being married or having babies yet. And lastly, linus got to stay outside with me all day and he thought he was digging for treasure for most of it.

Sometimes he's still there and sometimes I'm in a boat.

A fictional struggle that is hardly fictional.

this is what happens to all of us, eventually.