Monday, September 24, 2012

Surreal/Dream Variation


My eyelids felt heavy. My mind felt light. I don’t think I belonged here.

This was confusing.

The restaurant was foggy, as if Mario’s was full of cloud-smoke-haze. The red and white squares on the tablecloth were bolder and brighter than what I remembered. They looked like they belonged on one of those fakey-3-D holographic trading cards or maybe from a scene behind paper and colored-cellophane 3-D glasses. The candle flickered flatly in a bright yellow resonance. I suddenly felt the heaviness of my wristwatch, so I picked up my hand to check the time. A tiny white rabbit was running around the inside circumference of the face. And the six various-sized hands continued a-ticking in a manner that translated nonsensical to me. I stared at it, puzzled, somehow understanding that someone was late. My watch suddenly felt slime-y against the feel of my wrist skin. I watched it melt into a wet liquid, a watery puddle that slipped off my body and onto the floor. I stared at the tiny scattered droplets adhering to cohesion. Until, sticky strands of my hair rushed into my face, obstructing my view because a dusty-gray ship had blew into the restaurant, letting in a fury of blizzard.

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