Field guide No. 889
Mustard bus becomes a paper ticket
One route, in paper
A yellow bus fades into the shape of a long paper ticket across a wet depot. The fare has become the entire vehicle.
Field noteA yellow bus fades into a paper ticket at its rear. The fare has become the vehicle.
- Specimen
- No. 889
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet bus depot.
- Nearest existing relative
- A city bus ticket.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Moths biting an amber sunbeamMoths eat wool. These eat light, and the beam keeps the bite marks as if it were cloth.
Feathers forged into steelWhite feathers emerge from a press as a solid steel bar. The metal remembers its softer ingredients.
Red straws through the tableStraws stand in a glass and poke out beneath the table. The tabletop is solid on its upper side only.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.