Glasses

50-word fiction

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There’s a picture opposite me.

It’s Mona Lisa, but naked.

We gawk at her, pretend to study the lines, the colors, what’s between the lines and colors. We rub our chins and squint.

“Powerful,” says some woman in the back. I imagine she wears glasses because we all wear glasses.

Many thanks to Justin Deming for the July 31st writing prompt.

The line “there’s a picture opposite me” is from Birdhouse In Your Soul by one of my favorite bands, They Might Be Giants.

*Lyrics are here, line is in the second verse.