Saturday, October 24, 2020

dream journal #271

 extra rotund actor

fiend from 70's cinema
Victor Buono appears,
expertly killing off
my loved ones, one by one

my friend appears at my door
with a baby girl in his arms
I am terrified they may be killed, too

but we escape
and he tells me,
the girl is my daughter

and Victor shoots my friend
and we are on the lam
this little girl in my arms
but I know, 
in my dreamtime way of knowing
at least she 
will make it out of this
alive

the Dalai Lama goes to China

 the way he describes Mao --

like a poet,
paints a portrait 
of his speech
his hands, how he
turns his head slowly
from left to right
like the inexorable leap forward

"religion" the chairman leans over
to say to him
"reduces the population,
curbs progress"

Tenzin Gyatso feels a burning
sensation in his face
an intense fear