10-23-11
Lol
My sister brings a movie to me that is about Halloween. (I didn't get to the part where I watched it.)
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In an alternate reality (a lucid within a lucid, as it were) I fight a tiger with my bare hands. I am on the point of killing the tiger (for it would have pleased it greatly to kill me) but my hand is stayed by sudden compassion. In this moment, through some transmission of the eyes, we become as one mind.
I ride the tiger (no, I have not been listening to Dio) through rocks, strange huts and beaches, and sunsets, to the edge of a great jungle. There between stone gates sits a stone tiger. It moves not an inch, but has dead jewels for eyes; I know it will trap me forever. I am frozen in terror.
As if it were a spec in its eye, my living tiger cracks it effortlessly into dust. I fall asleep on this spot as the tiger wanders off into the jungle, its home. I feel like all was lost, and all was gained.
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A man wearing goggles has tied up a woman, and is about to place her into a stone oven. He looks desperately to the sky, as if waiting for a word. There is constant quiet lightning, making it seem like a strange day. I can't see walls, though it seems there must be a room.
I'm not here, so there's nothing I can do to help her. I can't see either of their faces.