Suit

A man with rusty brown hair, a beard, and a plaid shirt has been struggling with something in his mind, so he gets in his truck and drives fast until he gets to the top of a hill and guns it. He’s going all out, and where the cliff juts out over the water, he keeps going. He plunges into the sea.

Those at the seashore wait for his car to reemerge. But the man is now under the water in a brown suit and hat and he’s staring straight ahead. A few minutes later, the man is gone and only a brown suit and hat without a body are floating, beautifully, on the surface. A woman next to me jumps in the water, and she wants to drown, too. The suit stays just where it is.

An older man puts a beach hat on a young boy who is wearing a suit. His fine hair is wet. His whole body is wet underneath the suit. The boy doesn’t say anything. “Your hair’s just a little wet, that’s all,” the man says. The boy looks toward the sea.