In my dream I’m the sole person in the studio building late at night. It means I’m free to take a few empty test tubes from someone else’s space. Their name starts with a J and is written on a chalkboard on the wall I’m behind.

In my dream I am trying to help J to slip the patrol and escape through the hotel’s crowded lobby. J is skittish and keeps changing their mind. I wrangle them through the crowd and into the restaurant. We need to act normally.

In my dream the parking lot attendant and the usher are both as excited as I am about LaBelle performing at the local hotel. “We’ll sneak you in”, they say.

In my dream we three are cleaning the kitchen in the aftermath of the dinner party. As I scoop beans and rice off of the counter we sing “Beautiful Girls” from “Follies”. Somehow that last long note falls to me and I wobble my way through it, embarrassed.

In my dream I circle the block, picking up materials for my next show including tarred branches and stretch silicone foot braces which are embellished with lavender figures and nubby flowers.