bits and pieces

i have had some really interesting dreams
but they haven't stuck
i am not really happy about that
because they seem like they might have
had something interesting to tell me
but
what're ya gonna do
but
i just now remembered part of last night's dream
so i'll tell you what i can remember

i was at a movie theater
i had a baby with me
in one of those basket-like baby carriers
the kind you can set down
they are kinda awkward to carry
but that's all i ever saw people using
anyway, i was carrying the baby in one of those

i'm talking to the baby
i buy a small coke
there are counters set up
all over the place
and i get distracted by someone
who i guess is trying to sell be something
a book of coupons or tickets or something
i can't quite remember
the booth he's in
reminds me of those gypsy fortune teller machines
that used to be all over when i was a kid
but now you never see them
like the one in "big" you know the ones i mean

and i'm trying to find my theater number
and the whole place looks like a sports arena
or something, large and round, with doors going in
and i've had dreams about this sports place, thing, whatever
i know i've dreamed about it before
but i can't remember those dreams
and i don't know why i'm taking the baby to the movies
this kid is way too young for the movies

and there's more
more i can't remember
there's another person trying to sell me something
and my artful deflect
because i'm trying to get to the movie
and maybe there's a phone call
i vaguely remember a phone call
maybe to the babydaddy
which might be important, but i just can't remember

next thing i remember
i have somehow passed my number
and am irritated that i have to back-track
how could i have missed it the first time
but
there was nothing wrong with the baby
there was nothing wrong with me
nothing bad happened
this is like a big improvement over past baby dreams
i mean
i would have preferred to be interacting with the kid more
instead of mostly schlepping it around
and
i mean
it still doesn't make much sense
sports-stadium-movie-theater-with-predatory-vendors, whatever
me and spawn were tight