if only

I worked hard on it

we worked hard on it

cardboard piece by cardboard piece

completed with neon yellow construction paper and pipe cleaners

hot gluing the cardboard

a big cardboard circle on the bottom

medium circle in the middle

small circle on top

each one elevated and separated by a cardboard tube through the middle

hot glue sticks flying by with the time

next

we added the neon yellow construction paper

turning the three circles neon yellow

radioactive cheese,

we called it

to power the S.S. Cardboard.

for the cheese dripping down

I used pipe cleaners

yellow and fuzzy and beautifully adding the finishing touch we needed

we worked hard on that

the cheese fountain

I put so much of myself into it

I was so excited when I heard it was on display

I wanted to go see it

we didn't get the chance

we missed it

it's gone now

in the trash or something

you can make a new one

my parents tell me

no

I could

but it wouldn't be the same

not without the people who helped me

not without the setting it took place in

not without all the happy memories that went along with it

it has such a  history

such a story

if only we had gotten there sooner

of only we had gotten the chance to see it on display

if only...