but laced with

sugar and spice

and all things

that can lace

the puppy dogs!

all in rows

with huge green

platforms made of

styrofoam, and black

tint on windows

with fuzzy dice

and no muffler

but a V-8

juice drink neat

with ice cubes

and long straw

with an umbrella

for shade in

the approaching forest

was the goal

of these unsavory

characters in the

voyage to bottom

of the EARTH

 [ha you thought I was gonna say SEA ]

digging in their