Tonight's Poet Corner: The Great Adventure
The Great Adventure by Belinda Roddie Come with me to the mystical land of gas stations and supermarkets, where the slurpies are o'erflowing, and you can get three candy bars for the price of one. Take my hand, and I will lead you to neon OPEN signs and red counters where a fat white guy with a neckbeard will try to flirt with you as you ask for a bag to carry your junk food. Maybe, if we're lucky, they'll have doughnuts, too. Magical doughnuts! Home will never seem the same again after we emerge from our wonderland of cheap sugar and caffeine, our hearts racing only because we consumed an excessive amount of fifty cent coffee. Yes, in the kingdom of scratch tickets and cigarettes, we'll be safe from the horrors of the real world, where God forbid, there might be trees growing taller than we are, and waaaaaay too much oxygen.