Volterra is full of archaeological sites,

some of them very close

to car parks.

And so this morning,

when I saw a 1960s Fiat 500,

a tiny little car,

that you can barely squeeze yourself into,

parked next to an SUV,

I thought:

surely, in the future, archaeologists,

when they come across

the remains of cars,

will think that over these decades

there must have been an enormous evolution

in the human body (both male and female),

and that we are all much taller than we were 50 years ago.

And perhaps,

there really has been such an evolution,

and I simply haven’t noticed.

Or perhaps it’s just a load of nonsense

that crossed my mind,

and archaeologists of the future,

who knows what they’ll think.