I was sleeping in the dirt
HAPPILY
I THOUGHT
in the front yard
of a building I used to live in
THEN
some guy
came over and took a spot too close to me
couldn't SEE him -- couldn't assess him
didn't FEEL SAFE anymore
got up & walked to the door keys in hand
looking behind me
somewhat scared
DOOR didn't LOOK right
I wasn't where I thought I was
I went to find someplace
SAFE
I ended up in an old diner
not like fancy FIXED UP
just old but funky
& I found myself in an odd corner
I need to get SOMEWHERE
I think I was thinking of another place I had lived
a BUS came by
OH I thought
I didn't know a bus came by here
I wonder HOW LONG until the next one
BUT
in the way SOMETIMES if you are playing
say city skylines 2, using anarchy because the
actual game works KINDA sh*TTYL and you want stuff to line up and fit
the bus phased right into the building
& as it came by
I could just STEP ONTO the INSIDE of the BUS
I went through these beautiful
LUSH areas that SEEMED
TOO THICK with foilage to even pass through
BUT
I don't remember getting off the bus
I was in this WILD MCM media room
I was in an enormous leather chair
& there were TWO television sets
one on top of the other
LIKE
thouse double ovens you sometimes saw
in fancy kitchens on cooking shows
& me and SOMEONE else
we're going OVER and ANALYZING
SOMETHING
I can't quite remember
HISTORICAL
CULTURAL
something
THEN
I was talking to a couple of people
I knew in the dream
in some kind of
GROUP
but it also seemed like a game
& I kept trying to get information from them
& they were only answering me in these
VAGUE non-informational
SHORT answers
& I'm LIKE
WTF
are you not looking anything up
NO, they said
we have to leave the stream for that
I'm LIKE
YEAH I KNOW
I'm leaving the stream every few minutes
& it's a pain to get back in the flow
NOT JUST THAT
you don't GAIN COINS if you LEAVE the STREAM
I don't even know what you're talking about
I SAY
WHAT do COINS
DO for you
that makes them
IMPORTANT ENOUGH
to be worth
doing a crappy job at what we are
SUPPOSED to be DOING
AND THEN
I'm in a house
& I have something set up
in the idk
EXHAUST SYSTEM
MAYBE
it's hooked up to the
STOVE
for SURE
BUT
I THINK
it runs through the HVAC as well
& SUDDENLY I look in this cabinet
& there is this LIKE
WALL
of what looks like broken bits of
SALTINE CRACKERS
being sucked up from SOMEWHERE
I keep WANTING to take a picture of it
because it is going UP
in a WAY
that SEEMS
CONTRARY to GRAVITY
& there is SO MUCH of it
LIKE
HOW could the SYSTEM
EVEN FUNCTION
with all this
CRAP
gumming up the
WORKS
& then I woke up
with kd lang singing three days in my HEAD
I stayed in bed a long time
THINKING about the DREAMS
& I may have even gone back in
BUT
I FEEL like
I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT
I don't KNOW if it is ME
or the system
or BOTH
& my head does
HURT
but I feel
BETTER about EVERYTHING somehow
it's a LOT of SLEEP though
