Sep 6, 2022
these nine images capture my entire origin story as a person
#like you could not get me more pumped than if you took me to an indoor rainforest#of any kind. real or plastic!#me 5 years old in the USA for the first time getting taken to a rainforest cafe like it wouldn’t give me a stroke right there and then#there was a soft play area called Jungle Kids and folks when I tell you#i still retain the sense memory of what it was like the moment you handed over your shoes and were set loose#that hard utilitarian carpet built for spills of all kinds… thundering under your feet as you SPRINTED#the big fake plane crashing through the wall and all the rope bridges… the plastic animals and vines everywhere#the sea of adults exhaustedly reading newspapers and books at those shitty plastic tables#the ROOM TEMPERATURE JUICE…#sweating and running and climbing and screaming for two hours straight because you were - intrinsically - a Jungle Kid#junglepunk#gvc#utopian scholastic
