I want you to build me a McDonald’s Play Room
I want it to be like the ones from the early 1980s
when everything was brownish and orange and
plastic and linoleum and cartoonish
I want it to be the perfect temperature,
no moving air. I want a round table
in the middle. Orange of course. And metal.
and you can sit me there with crayons and paper
and a book on engineering. And you can feed me
fast food but healthy fast food. You can do that.
You can do anything. Oh. There has to be a big Ronald
McDonald sitting on a bench there in the corner
by the mural. He’s sitting with his legs crossed. I don’t
like him. I’m a little scared of him but he has to
be there. You can put that purple monster, actually
please definitely put that purple poster
at the table between where I will sit and the Ronald
McDonald. The purple monster will be furry,
with real fur and small eyes and he’s not smiling
but he doesn’t look mean. He is my friend.
There’s a big plastic tree in the corner like etched
into the wall and it has a hole in it where
I can crawl in and you can crawl after me
and bad things will happen but good bad things
I want you to build this in a mall but it’s
an abandoned mall and it never ends.
We can never get out but if we go far enough
and go out of our minds enough it does change
