In my dream the time is quickly coming when I will have to take my seat in a shaky box ten stories in the air and land a jet by remote control, even though I have barely practiced.

In my dream I pack away all the stuff I’ve collected over the trip, including the creased lps and the plaque of quilted yellow bullets. I have thoughts about the plot of the novel.

In my dream I walk through the old shopping district of Philadelphia, with arcades crammed with men’s wear shops and tiled walls with signs forbidding public sex. Each street alternates between waves of shoppers and scattered unhoused men.

In my dream it’s the middle questionnaire.

In my dream there are twice as many students in the classroom than at the beginning of the session; an impossible number. Their casual chatter drowns out my attempts to get their attention and one young person is circulating from group to group whispering about how the staff is resigning.

In my dream they all float in the underpass: the paired iridescent objects, waiting to be selected.

In my dream three heads line up at the back of the brown room.

In my dream: dull metal.

#MeWhwnTheyPlayMyJam’

In my dream  the final piece of birthday cake has a doll’s yellowed ribcage on it and it’s necessary to the plot that we get him to touch it.

In my dream I get out the silk tie and harness for my dog who is rolling around on the snowy tabletop.  Lately she has really enjoyed when Madonna comes by to walk her.

So it’s been fifteen years of service to The Gnome King, one of my co-conspirators/sweeties. He’s an attorney AND a pastry chef, and that most dangerous thing: a top who pays attention. He’s been using my own words against me for over a decade and I love him for it. #poly