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ballpoint drawing of a young woman in a very puffy coat and hat, looking uncomfortable. Text reads: Hi, I'm Marley. I'm 24 and I can't drive. I walk and take the bus, rain or shine or snow. Not that I owe anyone an explanation but it's because I have an unspecified neurodevelopmental disorder. Probably autism. Many autistic people can drive... not me!
ballpoint drawing a cute, simple cartoon figure driving a toy car across a road with a gate and do not enter sign in the background. Text reads: I think many Americans see freedom in our cars and roads. I see an absurd, Kafka-esque obstacle course.
a ballpoint comic panel of a car running a stop sign in front of a pedestrian who is flipping the car off and saying I have the right of way, fuckhead! Text at the top reads: So many drivers run stop signs! A second panel shows a woman with a deadpan face waiting at a bus stop, with text reading: sometimes the bus just doesn't come and I have to wait around 45 minutes for the next one.
a ballpoint comic panel of a grocery bag tearing and dropping groceries as someone carries it. Text reads: Even re-usable bags can only take so much. The next panel is a person drawn really small in the middle of a very large parking lot. Text reads: I must often confront vast, endless parking lots.
displays two maps which explain how the placement of chains on a couple of gates has cut off the writer's shortcut home from the train station and doubled the length it takes them to walk to and from the train.
ballpoint drawing of a pair of bolt cutters, with text that reads: guess I'll have to add bolt cutters to my inventory.
a poem entitled The Thing About Taking the Bus. It reads: You may prepare yourself / for an interview, a date / hair, makeup, professional attire / polished as a dress shoe / but by the time you get where you're going / you're rumpled and weather-worn / patterned with lint / stinking of sweat in the summer / wet dog in the winter / you hide in the bathroom / switch to fresh socks / stuff your sneakers with paper towels / sop the sweat from your armpits (continued on next page)
the poem continues, your asscrack, under / your tits, the back of your neck / and knees - / also with paper towels / re-apply deodorant / and pray your clothes don't / hold onto your stink / you sit down / clock in / show up / just a bit worse for wear / than everyone else / oh well.
Text at the top reads: Yet I wouldn't have it any other way. A ballpoint comic panel of a woman watching a man playing overturned plastic buckets as drums with the caption Live Music! Another panel with a man in a fancy hat and cape picking up litter with the caption reading: super-gentleman who picks up litter. And a third panel with a man walking with a falcon on his arm, with the caption saying 1 time I saw a guy with a falcon!
ballpoint drawings of a nutria, a snail, and a family of two adult geese and 8 baby geese crossing the road.
Text at the top reads: A commuter's inventory. Beneath that are ballpoint drawings of: an emergency whistle, pepper spray, a pair of socks, a reflective vest, a plastic bag with a book in it, a water bottle, a pair of headphones, a pair of sunglasses, a fidget toy, cash, a bottle of hand sanitizer, a bottle of ibuprofen, a lighter, a granola bar, and a music note.
Text at the top reads: one night, while walking through a long, dark stretch of empty lot... out of the darkness emerged... The rest of the page is darkened with streaks of ballpoint pen.
The entire page is scribbled over with ballpoint pen.
Ballpoint drawing with the back of a woman's head in the foreground; in front of her, there is a parking lot, sidewalk, and field, across which three deer are running.
Ballpoint drawing with the back of a woman's head in the foreground; in front of her, there is a parking lot, sidewalk, and field, across which three deer are running.