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LYN LIFSHIN
The Other Night I Had This Absurd Dream
terrorism was going on but it was
in only parts of the city. Some
were gunned down but others
seemed to make it to somewhere
else. I was in spike heels, a filmy
dress, chartreuse I think, the
color Nicole Kidman wore several
years ago to the Oscars. Suddenly
a dark man puts his arm around
me like a shawl and says its
the blacks and Jews they are after.
Ambulances across the pond and the
rain seemed like bullets. I wait for
guns from the street, something
terrifying as what catapulted Jessica
from her seat in the Campus Theater
when The Thing played. It comes
thru the blinds, pulls me from quilts
even the cat is hiding under. I can feel
what is just waiting for me slither
toward the bed, even the cat smells it,
leaps from her warm cove. It's too
late to fall back to sleep. This terror will
wrap itself around me, weave itself in
to my hair so when I go to ballet it
it will keep me will keep me
leaping and turning. I will be as not
there as an old lover's voice on his
answering machine I called months ago
to just listen to or feel safe I could
not still want him, safer than those
hours in the dark with the geese and
traffic not enough to make things
seem they were as they had been
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