Seagulls won't help you find your way when sea girls will take you to your grave

[sovay]

Tonight on the bus from Davis Square I saw a girl who looked like a marble by Praxiteles—the leonine nose, the small, full mouth, the rounded chin—with bright fair hair under a baseball cap, thumb-scrolling through her phone with earbuds in. She was wearing a teal windbreaker and a T-shirt the color of brick dust. She looked very much like that art project that went around the internet a couple of years ago, with classical statues photo-dressed in contemporary clothes. I believe I could have non-creepily said, "Just so you know, you look like a fourth-century head of Aphrodite," but the distribution of other bus riders was such that I would have had to move past several people in order to get her attention at all, and I thought that might have been unnecessarily awkward. I got off the bus at my usual stop. I hope someone tells her. She was blue-eyed or grey-eyed, but definitely Aphrodite.

Comments

[kore]

That is really neat. I'm six feet tall, so I tend to notice people taller than me, and at the Santa Fe Community College there was this girl who was a dead ringer for Athena: six two, grey eyes, corn-blond hair and she looked not just taller but bigger than everyone -- like how Peter Beagle describes the Robin Hood figures in Last Unicorn. And she kind of glided down the halls. I think she was a soccer player.

[sovay]

a dead ringer for Athena: six two, grey eyes, corn-blond hair and she looked not just taller but bigger than everyone -- like how Peter Beagle describes the Robin Hood figures in Last Unicorn. And she kind of glided down the halls. I think she was a soccer player.

I'm just really happy to know this.