Losing Sight

Venice cultivates warm hues of purple, maroon, magenta, royal blue, pink, sun crimson fruit, green liquor spearmint, angel wing blackening grey, jubilation juju, Okinawa sandy beaches, sapphire rippling water waves; we mask ourselves the craft of Sicilian hands.

"....are you her?"

"....."

"You're so quiet."

"....."

"How did you get here?"

"He's heavy."

"He's my husband."

"...."

"Who do you mourn?"

".....I am afraid to find out."

"...I dream about you."

"I find you....behind another theater...."

"The curtains is my mask?"

"You must be so beautiful."

"I found you naked with a lion."

"....then...."

"You disappeared..."

"Oh?"

"Then I found you naked in some snow that did not look....real."

"...."

"I told you that you were my wife and you belonged to me but you just rolled around and giggled!"

"......"

"Then you were gone again."

"................"

"Then I found you bathing in champagne....burning incense....wearing eyeglasses.....reading a book about regret."

"Did you come to me?"

"I fainted."

"....were you there?"

"No but my friend Zyna was and he carried you naked to some room where he laid you down.."

"Why?"

"So he could tickle you and take your bath."

"And my book!"

"And your book and he was naked too and there was this strange little boy running around with furry little people in his hands....he had two....Dorian and Gray."

".....well I am mad at him for taking my bath."

"The little boy was unaware of everything except for two creatures on the porch feeding some fish in some kind of silly pond."

"Why was it silly?"

"It had all these strange little puzzles and colorful lights inside of it....there were marijuana plants close by then the little strange boy ran around those with the furry people and he ate some!"

"....while I was naked?"

"No you wore Zyna's oxford....wasn't mine....no it was his....you wore some boxer shorts....this man came over for a while to see what you were doing and he gave you some apples. You had made him some kind of interesting food that looked like it was from another land."

"Oh...."

"You sometimes walked with some man with a red dog who sang the worst song I ever heard but you didn't mind at all..."

"Really?"

"....uh huh......I think you dressed him and pressed his shirts..."

".....why would I do that?"

"He needed it."

"What else?"

"....Calvin was there.......building some kind of machine.....then a girl who looked just like you ran by wearing baggy jeans and chains....then another girl who looks like all of you ran by but she was dressed up like Jesus...why I don't know....and then the strange little boy carried a plate of fruits and vegetables while he was so god damn stoned from those plants...he wore a backwards hat with a British flag. I think he was a director or something..."

"Where were you?"

"....making a fan."

"Why weren't you there?"

"Finally some wild man with crazy hair shows up on a very nice looking bicycle and asks me on a date but I tell him he is dirty and to go away."

".....!....."

"...but he comes back and tries again with some kind of fancy shiny car that acts like shit...he was wearing a white t-shirt and jeans."

"?"

"......I told him my husband was waiting for me."

"Oh..."

"Then there was a really crazy woman wearing nothing but....on a....all over the damn...but I couldn't find her anywhere!"

"....dearest me."

".........nothing but....!!!!!!!!!"

"....."

"....the little boy brings me a movie....and makes me popcorn."

"I like him."

"....he's okay except there is always a chain dangling from his belt loop."

".....well....."

"I take it off him."

"Did you like the movie?"

"It comes up blank for some reason."

"Oh..."

"He starts yelling in Italian and wears the chain around his neck."

"Wow."

"....he has a skateboard that is pink."

"......."

"Pink."

"What's wrong with pink?"

"....the walking man comes to see me with his dog...the dog stares at me for a long while...he just laughs on the floor and then he leaves but the dog stays to stare at me some more. When he comes back he is dressed really nice wearing a suit. He tells me that is how he will dress when everybody gets married but for now he was practicing and that he needed me to make nectarine vanilla honey peanut butter. It was very important so I did and he ate it but he left but the dog stayed and stared at me for so long I thought the world was the dog's eyes."

".....the dog must be beautiful."

"He returns with some kind of motor bike to give me something for the fan and then they leave together after the dog blows a raspberry at me."

"Who is he?"

"Some guy who eats a whole hell of a lot of peanut butter."

"....and he sings like that?"

"He does it on purpose."

"....."

".....whatever anyways then everything turns to crazy shit and something breaks in half....but we are so used to crazy shit it doesn't even matter anymore...finally there you are wearing purple walking with Zyna..."

"....what do you do?"

"I sigh and walk away."

"Why?"

"......"

"....you're my husband!"

"....."

"...."

"But he's that guy!"

"What guy?"

"The guy that does the guy thing when you do the gal stuff."

"....that makes no fucking sense whatsoever."

".....some man comes out of a tunnel shaking his head and carrying something but he disappears...you kiss me on the cheek but you disappear....you do that a lot. Lucid stays with me while I figure things out. You leave your panties all over my house!"

"..."

"....I don't really mind it that much though."

"......"

"...okay and then there is the ring next to mine in the middle of some kind of....tomb or....I don't know...that disappears...the dogs lick me....Lilith is sitting on a throne....Kevinya is walking around eating peanuts....then you all disappear but you show up again....except you are a hologram...that's when I couldn't handle it anymore and rolled over...there was a woman next to me who smiled and kissed my lips."

"Who was she?"

"....my wife."

"Oh that's me."

"....yes."

"What a strange dream."

"....what a strange life."