the last couple of nights i've had weird dreams
about my mother
and i'm not all that anxious to talk family of origin
but i'll try, just a little to describe
some of the themes of the dreams
in one
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sorry can't do it
then, in another one, i was working in an art gallery
this guy came in wanting to buy art for a particular spot
it wasn't home or office, it was a public place, and
that's all the information i could get out of him
did he have a favorite color or something he collected
a theme perhaps that he'd like to pick up with art
dogs and cats and democrats
and a couple of other things
but clearly not anything he really cared about
by the way he rattled them off
so i started looking around
and i found this beautiful calligraphic rendering
of desiderata
with cut away sections
through which there were shadow boxed areas
with natural objects
it was pretty big
maybe four foot long
but narrow
maybe eight inches wide
i thought it was perfect
but he didn't like it
and i showed him some other work
but he didn't like any of it
and i talked to him some more
and he said something
and i clicked
he liked cartoons
do you know about animation cells, i asked him
he did not
i explained that they were actual drawings
used in the production of the cartoon
but that they weren't cheap like posters, or anything
they were actual art, so they could be quite pricey
and there was a gallery nearby that specialized
and he got very excited by the idea that he might
be able to find one of pluto
what does that mean
i have no idea
which is probably why i could write it
and then
i was trying on hats
and someone said: you know
every hat you wear you look different
