City of Constellations
- The city is full of constellations. Citizens argue about their shapes.
- The city is on a very fast raft. It follows the moon. Once every four weeks, the city disappears like a Kung-Fu city.
- A long time ago, it had a baseball team. When a home run was hit, the fans would jump from the stands and chase down the ball with flashlights.
- That one looks like a cell phone tower. That one looks like an oncoming motorcycle at dusk.
- Foreign dignitaries seeking souvenirs for their daughters fall for the vials of "stardust" every time.
- It would be a mistake to assume the city did not like the sun. The sun is a star.
- A boat of astronomers with PhDs follows the city in an inflatable raft. They have long beards and the citizens throw their raccoons at them.
- That one looks like a boom box recording from one tape deck to another. That one looks like a CD hanging from a rearview mirror.
- People just sleep, whatever.
- Every full moon the city sees its reflection. It thinks it looks like a shelf of books.
- The former baseball team sports binoculars, plays bongos on the beach.
- Cats. Everywhere.
- They almost hosted the Olympics but no one could agree on the right way to extinguish the torch: dumpster of sand from a helicopter; or five hundred orphans waving electric blankets.
- There is a shortage of teachers, teenage boys. People who quote other people are not allowed.
- All the Starbucks have been uprooted and replaced with planetariums but they still have Wi-Fi and they still call them Starbucks.
- That one looks like a robot with a severed arm. That one looks like a fish breathing on the deck of a boat.
- When the city gets very old and implodes, the rest of the world will say, We really should have seen this coming.
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