Date: 10/1/2017
By xoe
On the bus, a linebacker was showing off that he could do flips. He flipped over the seat and onto my head. Our heads hit. Then he did the trick a few more times. He got it right once. Off the bus, trying to tell people how much my head hurts and what happened. Nobody cares. Walking down a hallway, one guy showed concern. Mom says we have to go into the mall. I whine and argue with her. It is Christmas, it is going to be so crowded. Why would she go to the mall when she doesn't have to? In the mall. There's been a disaster. Homes were flooded. But somehow we could go back. Walked through a bedroom full of burgundy lace. Looking through wreckage for some of my stuff. My head hurts, my husband's been killed, and I want to leave. We are walking out. My aunt points out the tent that was in her yard. But I see only a blue banner. The tent scaffolding is behind it. We have to have ceremonies. Alan Alda is there. 16 years. Everyone gathers to hug. Giant group hug. They are giving out WOW chips that equal money. Yet somehow no one is getting any. Some people run to get on a rollercoaster, but they'll be back. A ride/funeral. Our seats move around a circle. I'm joking with the guy next to me. But when I point out how much the Madonna sculpture looks like a vulva, he doesn't think it's funny. We keep going around it, and it is slowly turning. From some angles her robes are exactly like labia. From others the madonna is turned into a vaginal opening. Crying. Trying to leave. Kelly has me try on a necklace. We laugh and talk about shared memories of kitsch, obscure pop culture. Something green. She doesn't like the necklace on me. Still trying to leave. Everyone sad and devastated. Looking through a window into another hallway. Airport. Abbie Jacobson is on the ground, sort of crawling. A blind girl is running beside her telling her that sometimes it is different. They are going the opposite way. Notice a man pretending to be an escalator cleaner, he wears a suit. But just skips past the real escalator cleaner. The real escalator cleaner looks like Jason Schwarzman. He is licking the handle and trying to put his tongue in a brass slot. It is funny.