Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Uncollected Dream Fragments


1. Charles Bronson looks at me quite intently. - George, I’m going to marry your wife, he says. We laugh together. (Charles famously said this to David McCallum, and then married his wife.) I hear my mother cry my name upstairs. I run to help her, open the door, and Charles Bronson is sodomizing her.
2. An Arab man points at an orange triangle. – This triangle is impossible to look at, he says. He is right: I see only a blur, then a teddy bear.
3. (Redacted at the request of my mother.)
4. A town in Croatia is made entirely of chocolate, the tour guide tells me. But everything tastes like matzo.
5. A piece of blue cheese has got a little mouth. It spits out chicken blood.
6. Dolph Lundgren and I are looking at houses. I get frustrated because we can’t decide on anything. Dolph tells me that he has had enough, and goes and waits in the car.
7. I am trying to deliver a letter and get confused about which mailbox to put it into. Suddenly I am bent over and chained to table by a hungry rat. (C.f. The Rat Man)
8. Candace is on a diet and she will eat only blue flowers. – Find me a lot of blue flowers or I will divorce you, she says. (C.f. Novalis)
9. I see a plane on fire hurtling towards me. It smashes down onto my front lawn. What luck, I think, watching it burn. Then a propeller gets loose, goes spinning towards me and slices off the top of my head.
10. I am trying to do my (turbo)taxes and all the numbers turn into little smurfs.
11. Robert Ludlum rings the doorbell. He is wearing aviator glasses and carries a long cane. He opens up my first autobiographical novel and reads aloud, tapping out the rhythm of my prose with his cane. He is unimpressed.
(Above drawing entitled, "Thought.")

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