Sleep

"A nightmare's nightmare is a timeshare in nowhere"

(c) DJR

I wrote this amidst all the chaos occurring in my head last night...

There is a snake under my bed

With one thousand eyes.

The night was long

The morning is black

I'm sinking in my own sweat.

A puddle of fresh squeezed orange juice

With black beans on my breath

A man filled with lies

Might explode one of these days

But the night was long

The morning is black

Will everything be ok?

Stuck inside a nightmare's nightmare

A puzzle

A funnel

A hole

With teeth inside my upper-side lips

My bottom mouth is broken.

Realizing my monster make-up

A woman with big breasts attacks me.

Thinking it's over, I awake in bed

A bed suspended over my head.

Comedic bank robbers with plastic guns

Point their pistols at me.

I throw a fist of quarters and scream

On the water of a giant river

With straw houses floating

Downstream.

Paolo enters my dream.

We sit at a cafe

And I order Tai Chi

She calls me a girl

And it's real

I believe.

My nightmare

Reeks of poison

It's texture is gas on fire.

I open eyes to find

The morning

Darker

Than the night.