... walked out directionless into the world to find your own vanishing point, which meant moving to Chicago to stay with your brother.
Chicago -
I put two apples in a plastic bag and headed out the door, which I didn't even lock though it would have been easy to do.
One seagull worked to swallow a little plastic toy lion ... The ferris wheel loomed up big behind them ... the wheel was missing spokes at random.
The sky above was pure undiluted blue ... Cars were lined up on the bridge, bumper to bumper. Drivers honked sporadically, without aggression, like migrating geese.
The walking path next to the highway passed under a bridge. In the cool dark beneath was a ... empty lot full of broken glass from bottles people had thrown ... Also, no bench.
When I got home I collected all of Cookie's toys, her food bowl and water bowl, the little purple ball with a bell in it, the stuffed squeaking duck that was almost her size. I lined them all up on the mantle in the living room so I could watch them disappear.
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