THE ELEPHANT GOT HIT Mixed media. © Dec 30th 2011. By Leighton Kelly last night i had the craziest dream. i was at a busy intersection and i noticed across the street a baby elephant scared and hurt as if it had been tagged by a car and desperate to cross over to the other side where we were to go to his sister who had made it and was sitting not far from our car. then i went over to the lil thing and it streched out its long trunk over to my hand and i comforted it tho i was a lil scared that it might roll over on me or freak out i asked it if it wanted to come into the shade but it said “no i prefer the sunlight” and it started eating tortillas from a bucket that someone must have put there. she was concerned about her brother who was still trying to cross over. and said she had also been hit and broke her pelvis. i began to start planning how to help the lil guy when i noticed a great big lavender semi barreling down the road just as the lil tyke began sprinting for it. the semi hit it so hard he flew into the air in a large high arc all the way into the next valley.  it seemed like forever we watched his poor limp body spinning into the sky. we were both crying very hard as we watched and the sound of my whimpering woke me up. i was all like “boo hoo hoo” cause it was so sad.  but i get better when i woke up more and said goodbye to the sad elephant as she too dissolved into yet another inexplicable dream about weird shit. fingers crossed i dont crash into large pachyderms on my way to the south.  i dont think i’d be able to enjoy the end of the world if that’d happen.  :’(

THE ELEPHANT GOT HIT

Mixed media. © Dec 30th 2011. By Leighton Kelly

  • last night i had the craziest dream. i was at a busy intersection and i noticed across the street a baby elephant scared and hurt as if it had been tagged by a car and desperate to cross over to the other side where we were to go to his sister who had made it and was sitting not far from our car. then i went over to the lil thing and it streched out its long trunk over to my hand and i comforted it tho i was a lil scared that it might roll over on me or freak out i asked it if it wanted to come into the shade but it said “no i prefer the sunlight” and it started eating tortillas from a bucket that someone must have put there. she was concerned about her brother who was still trying to cross over. and said she had also been hit and broke her pelvis. i began to start planning how to help the lil guy when i noticed a great big lavender semi barreling down the road just as the lil tyke began sprinting for it. the semi hit it so hard he flew into the air in a large high arc all the way into the next valley.  it seemed like forever we watched his poor limp body spinning into the sky. we were both crying very hard as we watched and the sound of my whimpering woke me up. i was all like “boo hoo hoo” cause it was so sad.  but i get better when i woke up more and said goodbye to the sad elephant as she too dissolved into yet another inexplicable dream about weird shit. fingers crossed i dont crash into large pachyderms on my way to the south.  i dont think i’d be able to enjoy the end of the world if that’d happen.  :’(