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