FOUND stuff

It was April 15th, 2003 in Dallas, tax day, and seeking a break I began walking to the convenience store. As I walked past the empty lot next door I saw the letter. The weather had been windy and overcast so the wind must have caught it. The first thing I found was the letter to Clay from Monica. I call it “good and woken up.”

You could tell the letter had been meticulously folded the way high school students do when they are passing notes. On the back she had written his name with “I (heart) U” next to it. She had pushed down on the pen so hard it almost poked through the page. The imprint is clear on the opposite side. After reading it my problems disappeared while I remembered what it was like to be in high school and have a crush.

The other piece I call “clay, self-portrait.” I found the picture near the letter and Clay’s Spanish homework. I’m assuming it’s also Clays. My first thought was rejected logo for the Total Information Awareness office. Then I started thinking about how Clay probably feels like a super-star with a letter like that from Monica but the thorny line around the eye is some kind of concern it won’t work out in the long run. The eye in the middle being I, Clay. However, I’m betting none of that applies and he just thought it looked cool.

d. saint