First prize to pick out is patience
Things move at different speeds.                                           

                                             (Sounds obvious but you'll forget that.)

 At the next booth grab stillness
all garish pink n
wrapped in old cellophane

Let the thing in the high-back
controller chair steer for a bit.
You will end up in
                                                                         wholly unexpected places

     o     n
d       i        g            totally      
                                                       unexpected
                                                                                     things

Psssst:  Keep alertness in your ruler pocket
you might have completely misudged
everything

Finally just before the peak
take your hands off entirely

ride the ride
you paid the man already

                                          (That little fucker can run, huh!)

Just say you lost it at the fair
and hope no one was standing
on the scaffolding midway taking
pictures of you on your down-slope

not noticing your own arc of descent.

Soooo distracted by your own screaming fun,
as you dropped down into the lights

of wierdo hour at the State Fair