“If you hold that shell to your ear, you can hear the ocean.”

“It just sounds like someone sighing forever, like my mom.”

“I found it on the shore.”

“It turns to yelling if you wait long enough.”

“It’s from the sea, your mom’s from Minnesota.”

“It’s still sighing, it came from a passive aggressive ocean.”

“Just put it down, man.”

“The waves aren’t mad, they’re just disappointed.”

“Your father’s never seen the Pacific, that ocean never birthed you.”

“I can hear my mom calling her sister.”

“Put the shell down.”