One way to find out how beautiful
and ostentatiously decorated
everything is is to wake up at a friend’s
condo somewhere in suburban
Orlando and head out for a day
at Epcot and, on the way, to Google
a much-needed Starbucks pit stop
and then drive off in a slightly
wrong direction and pull over to turn
around in a parking lot and notice
suddenly your car is surrounded
by colorful murals and piles of flowers
and painted signs and sweetness,
really so much beauty and joy and life
that it almost can’t be the shuttered
Pulse—25 minutes from Epcot
and its 49 dining locations, one
for each of June 12, 2016’s dead.
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