Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 7/26/2020
By andotherpoems
Systemic inequality and economic depression due to covid have together caused a massive collapse of civilization. Los Angeles is overrun by federal agents, bands of white supremacists, and cops. I’m trying to move to a safer location with the kids. We move to a shabby house in a row of houses built along like a cliff, facing one wide road, then a steep drop. It’s on a dry shrubby mountain overlooking the city (the westchester bluffs?). Everything in view is just sad shrubs, wetland, and derelict city, but this area has been secured as a freed zone, populated by marginalized folks. Federal goons are still kidnapping dissenting citizens off the street in broad daylight all over the place, but there’s an air of complacency like it’s been going on so long people are like “ugh, meh”. My oldest child gets kidnapped, and her dad cares for our youngest while I track her down. I’m livid, like, my CHILD has been taken. The dire circumstances awaken shapeshifting powers and I find out I can transform into a fox but not all the way, and have significantly improved physical strength and dexterity. I use my new abilities to find my child, she was on a defunct metro rail car. I sneak her off, and take a long way home, to make it difficult to track us. We wind up in Santa Monica, and the promenade has been taken over by the Asian community and is now a network of stalls with delicious food. We meet several close friends, and I tell them what happened. They agree to escort us home. Some agents have tracked us though, so we have to escape. One friend creates a diversion, and I discover that I can also cloak myself and one other person, so we hide that way until it’s clear. We befriend a coyote on the way home, and I find that I can communicate with coyotes and foxes.