Yellow Springs Time

[Mercury Trismagistus]

No one knew how long the Amphitheater had been there. The locals said it had been built by the gods in the Before Time. But now it was threatening to fall into ruins again, just like the rest of Antioch College. He remembered when it had been ruins once before. He had used to like to hang around in there and listen to his Boom Box while he was getting high. The acoustics had been pretty good but you had to watch out for the broken glass. Antioch had been dying for a long time by then. He remembered it in it's glory days...in the Summer of Love. The college had been at maximum enrollment then...with Hippies dancing around and playing flutes in front of the Student Union Building. But those were the Old Days...a high never to be fully recaptured. But the Laughing Summer was still in the future then. As was his first meeting with the King of Coolville.

 

[Mercury Trismagistus]

The Counselor looked at the Time Displacement Device on the seat next to him. He thought about his last meet up with the King of Coolville. It had been on board The Bus .. at one of the last Festivals in the Confederated States of Ohio. That was before the the Recess..of course..and before the rise of the Party..and of the Techno-Pope. He looked at the jug of Old Festivus in the back seat and lit up one of the numbers he usually kept in the van. Entropy could really be a bitch sometimes..he thought. But you just had to keep on truckin'.

 

[Mercury Trismagistus]

"Edibles..I tell you. It is to infused edibles that we must look to secure our future"
The Counselor could tell that Doctor Somadose was on a roll.
"Smoking alone can never convert Delta 9 into Delta 11. If I still have to explain why you shouldn't be in this class."
The members of the Cleracy stood up and gave a rousing round of applause.
The Counselor began to giggle in short..controlled bursts.
He had already been into the Extra Strength before the Doc had even started speaking.