ghost-poet
dream
there was no first line in the dream – and
i don’t remember seeing a title
- but
of a sudden, i’m walking from the house
where i was a child and the daylight is
friendli
and i expect i’m going – i don’t know –
maybe up the alley to station road – or
maybe i’m going to the library…
except
the next thing i know it is as if i’ve
awoken – and opening my eyes in the
same dream
i am utterly lost – also, it is quite frighteningli
night
in my dream, i am thinking in my dream, i
must have fallen asleep and just kept right
on walking…and now i’m lost and it’s
not nice at all
then
there’s a whole scramble of mixed up stuff
with stuff and funny stuff and the plot pro-
ceeds
like a butterfly going somewhere important
but
trying to eat a banana at the same time…
the bus that turns a dream corner (fortunately
i have just the correct dream change in my
dream trousers’ pocket) to take me back to
morning is
going to where i live these days – a million miles
away from where the dream begun –
and i awake convenientli enough in the bed
i went to sleep in…
how we have no idea
how very lost we are…
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