dream #2

this one occurred one night during my honeymoon. yes, we were asleep at the time. and yes, we are still happily married.

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Beneath the main pavilion tent at the arts festival is a performance artist. He sits on the asphalt in a roped-off area designated specifically for his performance.

Without speaking, he draws a large chalk square around himself within which his performance will take place. At his side is a stack of cheap plastic Halloween masks. On top of the stack is a red devil mask.

The man is completely naked and has no hair from the neck down. He has no genitals whatsoever; only a large, puckered, protruding anus. His right leg is amputated just above the knee; his left leg is whole, but only as long as his shortened right leg.

He leans forward making sweeping and dramatic arm movements as if to stir up the air around him. He reaches over and grabs salt and pepper shakers that he has placed by his side. He sprinkles first the salt with a full movement of his right arm, then the pepper with his left in an arc around himself. He makes several more dramatic, flowing arm motions and then curls up, withdrawing into himself.

He freezes for a moment, then looks up with the proud smirk of a creative genius and proclaims: “I call it, ‘Return to Innocence’”.