Self Portrait as Uncanny Valley

I lost my diary the other day. Someone’s daughter mistook it

for a leaf, planted it in a sidewalk crack, which reminded me of

a fanfiction I once read between a girl and a road on a first date.

The road insisted on the downtown cafe; the girl stormed off,

stubborn in her diet, unaware that she would be sleeping

on concrete in forty years.…

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