Real
Updated: Nov 23
Maybe it is all a dream?
Whose to tell me that it isn’t? Would you? Could you?
Would you try to wake me up?
. . .
It was all a dream
Inside the mind of a man
Who fell asleep
Years ago
In his bed is where he is
With a ceiling fan spinning above his head
He had been terrified to change
But also
Terrified to stay the same
And because of his existential crisis
He took a nap
When he woke up
He was in a different world
But to him
It was real
So
Real
He lived his dream
But at least
He was in his own dream
And he wasn’t stuck in
Someone else’s
One time he had had a dream that he was stuck in his dogs dream
Who was also on his bed with him
Snoring
Imagine being stuck in your dog's dream?
Imagine only existing in the minds of living things?
Would you wake him up?
Could you?
Or,
Should you?
My calf cramps
As I dream
And I wake up
In a puddle of sweet
And when I dream of sex with her
I’ll wake up sticky
And sometimes
I’ll wake up
Knowing that
I had been biting my lip
And clenching my jaw
And sometimes I’ll wake up
And not know which world is real
The one with my eyes closed
Or the one where I long to close my eyes again
Which one is real
And which one is the dream?
. . .
I wake up
And go to to the bathroom
Turn on the cold water
Let it get cold as hell
And then cup my hands under the stream
And splash my face with the collected cold water
And when i do that
The water turns to paint
Red colors me
I wipe my eyes
And peek in the mirror
But when my eyes open
The room isn’t there
Instead
I am in an old town
Where they carry revolvers and pistols
Where horses are tied to post outside of taverns
A world where when the wind blows
A tumbleweed goes head over heels
Down the dirt road
I hear a voice scream,
“There he is! The redface! The Indian! Get him!”
I turn around to see if I could identify who they are talking about
But
No one else is there
Only me and my dog
Who now looks like a small horse
I turn back and see them sprinting at me
One of them lifts up the pistol
And squeezes
I wake up with a headache
Right where the bullet was going to open up my flesh
CH 11/20/23