bottom of the drink they had to go the coke machine the snack machine the deep fryer hoisted and dragged through the halls and out to the curb they sat with other trash beneath gray forlorn skies behind the elementary school wondering what their next move would be the coke machine had always wanted to live the life of a hobo jumping trains eating from garbage making fire in old oil drums it had some strange romantic notions of being homeless is what the deep fryer thought its opinion was to head to court sue the bastards at the school for early termination of contract it was the embodiment of justifiable anger it believed privately that it was an incarnation of nemesis the goddess of divine retribution what the snack machine thought it kept to itself but it did say that nothing ever ends the others were confused then angry but finally understood or thought they did the snack machine's candy melted in the sun