Coney Island '22

By Kristie Patterson

Two kids tested fate and broke it in the process. Well, one kid in legitimacy, another one

in essence. And the two of them had found that they could form a perfect balance – each one

standing firmly on opposing scales of justice. A vehicle won’t work that way if both are in the

front (though they’d both been in the back as well, but don’t let that disrupt it) – and in this way they learned that speed was a hellish kind of drug. A stop sign bleeding red is imperceptible in flames, pyromaniacs commit arson as a form of fun and games, and like cowards scared of consequences, the two of them zoom away…theme parks that once seemed impervious to the growing rate of change shut down eventually, is the lesson.

(thoughifyouaskedwhetheri’dgetinacaragainwithhimi’dhavetosayi’dconsideritinspiteofandbecauseofthesetransgressions,ireallyhavetoadmitit’saninterestingquestion,where’dyougo?).

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Kristie Patterson is a 24-year-old Canadian writer, currently completing her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge in England. She specializes in poetry and is an amateur photographer in her spare time; she finds that both of these mediums tend to compliment and influence the other in her work.