Wish I could remember all of this one,but what I do remember starts here:
I'm in a shadowy alley talking to three other men. In the near distance there is a group of other people separated from us, and sitting in a lighted area. I'm trying to convince the three men that I should be part of their project? conspiracy? group? I have committed some crime, nature now unknown, that will qualify me to be admitted. I'm explaing that I can't go back to my job as a bookseller. I quote a few lines of some classic poem to illustrate my position. I can't remember the poem, although it was something about how can one go on doing x when y has happened. I do remember that in the dream while I quoted the poem I could see it written on a page, not as in a book of poems, but within the lines/ like this / broken by slashes / the way a poem is sometimes quoted in a text.
I don't know how they received my plea, but I found myself going outside of the shadowy area. I paused at a gate to adjust my belt? zipper? and looked back down the shadowy hallway. I see a young woman approaching,but she sees me fiddling with belt or whatever and turns away. I realize that she may have interpreted my gesture as sexual.
I leave the building, now for some reason carrying a change of clothes in one of those plastic dry cleaning bags over a hanger. I cross a green, well manicured lawn and see that a piece of plastic detritus has caught on the plastic of the clothes bag. I scrape it off with my foot.
I leave the lawn area and head down the street. I see large buildings in the near distance and I think that I'm in London. It happily occurs to me that I could visit some art museums. With that I look up and see that I'm entering a public park. It is crowded with ornate lightposts. But at the top of each one, instead of a simple light fixture, there is a a brilliant yellow plastic tulip, enormous in size. Though it isn't lit (it is midday) the sunlight is making the tulips glow against an intense blue sky.
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Amid the clunky clashing of sexual symbols, a transcendant light leads me forward. This is becoming common in my dreams.
