6.17.2010

Rudolph

Switching the radio off my favorite station Blue Glue, I grabbed my afro from the passenger seat and opened the car door. I waved goodbye to the princess in the backseat, faced out of the car, and felt a smile coming over my face when I saw Godzilla staring back at me. His intense eyes glowed with interest as he looked me up and down, his tongue tracing the outline of his lips in anticipation. Waving to distract him, I tickled under his nose with the afro, causing the overgrown beasts massive maw to open in what could only become a sneeze. I immediately took advantage of the situation and threw myself out of the car, tumbling past his teeth. On the way down his throat, I grabbed onto Dracula with my free hand before we were propelled out of the King of Monsters ear with a roaring sneeze. We spun in circles as we soared through miles of measuring tape, our hands clasped tightly together. It felt as if my head was spinning separately from my body and in this moment I felt a smile once again creeping over my face. Suddenly, Dracula pointed to the northeast and grabbed onto one of the many ends of measuring tape flying by us, tugging on it slightly. My neck cracked backward as we were pulled even faster through the tape toward what appeared to be Dracula's desired destination. I closed my eyes as I held onto Dracula's coattails, wind and tape lashing against my face. Eventually, we smashed into something in our path. Slowly, I opened my eyes and saw, to my amazement, the eyes of an electric eel staring back into my own. I felt his body wrap around me in a tingly hug, electric currents intensifying throughout my entire body. My eyes widened as I looked over to Dracula, who responded with a simple nod of his cowboy hat and a smile. The eel grunted as he let out a massive burst of electricity that shot me out of his grasp and straight up into the air. I shut my eyes as tightly as I could, soaring upward through the measuring tape until I no longer felt the long strands of distance flapping angrily against my skin. My eyes shot open and I quickly looked down to see the moon shimmering below me, a pale white goddess in the pitch black that surrounded me. Without a thought I threw the afro above my head, which expanded into an umbrella shape to safely let me float down to the surface of the barren orb beneath my feet. As my feet touched the rough surface, I stuffed the now back to normal afro into my back pocket and began to walk the vast stretch of the moon. After walking for hours over the planet, I noticed an astronaut carrying an American flag in the distance and I jogged over to him. He turned to me and I could see a smile through his helmet as I got closer to him. When I reached him I extended my hand for him to shake. He took it with a tight grip and after we greeted one another, I told him my name. "Nice to meet you, Smiley," he said as he let go of my hand and pointed to a name tag that I couldn't decipher. I shook my head to see if I could correct my vision and when my sight readjusted, he was holding out a plate of cabbage. I shook my head once more to reject his offer and he instantly grew distraught, storming off to the other side of the moon in leaps and bounds that would've taken me hours to travel. I yelled for him to come back until he crossed over the horizon and I could no longer see him. Upset and lonely, I whistled for my giraffe to fly over from Jupiter and I climbed onto his back. As we soared back to Earth, we were joined by thousands of seagulls, the flapping of their wings slowly putting me into a deep state of sleep. When I woke I was back in my fortress at Disneyland, safely in my bed and my afro tucked away on a shelf above me. Mickey Mouse and John Wayne tucked me in as they sang me to sleep.






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