Schoolbus seats & windows

Monsters of the future will be identifiable by their tendency to have skin which is rendered from the seats of ancient and dilapidated school buses, a vile dark green, and horrifically texturous.

Damaged skin will be awkwardly patched with the same. Dried industrial adhesive will have been applied well beyond the boundaries, and will frame the patch in a tacky lustrousness.

Transfer bus 93 will be the first victim.

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Something else about school buses, is that some of the most amazing portraits i ever saw in my young life were made out of frost, on wintry schoolbus windows. If i had happened to own a digital camera when i was eight, i totally would have snapped pictures of frosts that resembled swirling paisley, or impressionistic white-on-white-on-white galaxies of snowflakeshapes, or fractals within fractals of featherish entities. With blurry wet holes in the arts, where my fingers had been.





And then, when they finally invented USB ports and memory card readers, i could have retrieved my dusty digital camera and uploaded photos to a computer, and began the process of having each amazing windowobservation printed to large canvas, and i would open a museum full of schoolbuswindowphotos, and i would became a famous millionaire, because everyone would visit and no one would ignore the glass case at the entrance that asked for your meager donation, or at least an awkward smile to the attendant as you made your way to Steal the glimpses.

In retrospect, i suppose i could have used a regular camera so that i would not have to wait for technology to catch up, but i was and am weird like that.

And then when the future monsters visit the museum, they would stand and stare into the portraits in long thirty-minute sessions, and they would not know why they were having one of those sad, nostalgiac moments, and then their monster sensibilities would shake them out of it and they would move on to the next portrait and it would start all over again.