Tape

This piece of double-sided

3M Scotch tape

Will be the adhesive

That will hold my third-grade marker drawing

Of a blue plesiosaur

To my orange wall.

Fully confident in the tape's abilities, I put the extra tape away and walk out of my room.

The next day I return to a horrible sight.

The tape had failed me-

the marker drawing sits on the floor mat like a dead leaf

lifeless, blank side up

fallen from where it had been so carefully taped by my frantic hands the day before.

Moral of the story?

Never trust tape.