In the first dream things were falling apart fast, another black skied apocalypse with the buildings crumbling in and the birds flying off. even the insects had made their peace and began crawling up out of the ground, dancing in their bioluminescence on the stalks of the tallest grasses they could find in order to say goodbye before lifting off for some other planet. those appliances and gadgets smart enough to have found a mind of their own also followed suit, though a large washing machine that had had enough of our human meddling heaved itself up in the air, and hovering like a strange mechanical land shark tried to land on me. then i went outside, and things seemed normal again, at least as normal as they always are with the greying zombies walking around, ghosts fading in and out of the walls, and all succumbed to the monstrous tv eyes that floated in the orange haze that now blanketed the city.
Falling back to sleep, i was captured by cartoon pirates, along with a pig and some other anthropomorphized creature, and were forced to do a lot of the grunt work swabbing the deck and such so the captain and his crew could sit around drinking and playing video games. we were also land pirates, the ship able to sail down the roads with as much ease as on waves, and stopped here and there to pick up food supplies and more crew members, large bloated men in scroungy shirts with even mangier facial hair and sharp knives. at one stop however the pig jumped off to try and catch a rabbit to eat, since we prisoners weren't given much food, but he only succeeded in catching a small black kitten, who immediately took to me and the captain let us keep despite the jealousy and hunger of the crew. he figured they wouldn't mutiny over such a small matter. the cat ran around and nosed into everything and i worried that he wouldn't fall overboard and drown. eventually we passed what was like a school district with people waiting at the bus stop for the school schooner to take them home, and things were mellowing out until the cat pissed all over me, and there wasn't much choice but to wear the smelly clothes.
8.26.2006
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