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going down the plastic slide of the playground mind you arrive on the other side still feeling maligned by the same old pain involved in the same old game as the crust falls off of your eyes in the Biblical sense and recompense becomes the flavor of the day as you awaken and get on your way the warm breeze jogs your memory and the ephemeral scenes start to delete making the shock value even more complete
The playground slide I knew and climbed repeatedly--lovingly, joyfully; not realizing what I was feeling--was made of stainless steel and cast aluminum, I believe. The slide was polished with handfuls of sand, the grains slipping from my grasp as I climbed, the meager remainder released at the top then ground against the shiny surface by my jeans. We never thought to crack an egg or dribble pancake batter down the slope, but if we had then breakfast, fully cooked, would have awaited at the bottom.