Quarant-Zine Spring 2021
Donald Alonso: Modern Don Quixote Written by Joshua “Duh Wizard” Cruz
“5G Towers?” yelled the triumphant
Donald Alonso. “Charge!”
Armed with an AR-15 blessed by the Grand Wizards of Alabama. Clad in a bulletproof vest passed down from the most powerful army of the world. The knight with the tin foil helmet charged at the fearsome dragon. Its neck scraped the sky as its many mouths breathed invisible cancer rays. The dragon was planted by the Dark Lord of the White House to transmit a terrifying virus against the people of the American Kingdom. Those fiends! “Charge!” Donald Alonso unleashed a horde of bullets on the tower. To prevent contracting the virus and cancer, he covered his Make America Great Again hat with foil. To prevent that from microwaving his head, as everyone knew, he ate raw steak to absorb the radiation. The absolute worst thing, according to credible resources read on the internet, was to wear a mask. The Dark Lord hid microchips inside the fabric to monitor thoughts and lower sperm count.
Illustration by Evan Villaflor
The dragon did not even stand a chance. Donald Alonso stood over the metal dragon and unleashed the last of his bullets into the air. “People,” the knight said to the gathering crowd below the hill. “You are free! Remove your mask, for I have defeated the monster with 1000 faces!” The crowd in paper masks, the “sheeple” as Donald Alonso read, did not look pleased. He knew they would be disappointed. He read
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Poets and Writers Coalition Quarant-Zine Spring 2021
