Clownfish Blues

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A large, clear plastic ball rolled across the Atlantic Ocean off Miami Beach.

It approached a yacht. A hatch on the side of the ball opened. A head popped out. “Which way to Bermuda?” Three deep-sea sports fishermen pointed. “Thank you.” The hatch closed. The ball resumed rolling.

Back ashore, a whiskered man dove onto the sidewalk next to U.S. Highway 1, capturing another iguana under his T-shirt. The reptile was hog-tied with rubber bands and hung from the handlebars of a Schwinn bicycle, joining five other similarly dangling reptiles all wondering how life had come to this.

High above the road, workers on a scaffold updated the jackpot on a billboard for the Florida lottery. Motorists stopped texting to slam their brakes as a Marilyn Monroe drag queen ran into the street, chased through traffic by a JFK impersonator. There were fistfights, fender benders, free clinics, firecrackers that people thought were gunfire, and gunfire that people thought was firecrackers.

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