Escape RealityDarkness crawls behind my eyesas my mind floats skyward,away from the everyday doldrums.A weightlessness comes over me,as if I have been filled with helium.The stars melt beneath my feetas I dance the Tango solo.Their bursts of celestial lightsend stardust across my flesh as they fade.The sun is my beacon,the heat guiding me hometo that boundless emptiness where freedom lingers,just there behind the moons of Jupiter;Saturn's rings are the path I taketo get there.But what is this?A sudden weight around my ankles;a meteor tangled itself among the shoelaces.Its craters gape in malicious glee.I sink slowly. I