Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Dream

I own a coffee shop, perhaps some sort of cafe, its a bit of a dive but it is always crowded. This is the coffee shop I use to say I would open, I would call it espresso yourself. It is funny because I do not even like coffee. There is a long bar running the length of one wall that is where I stand, talk to the customers, take their orders, serve their food and coffee. There are three waiters there working as well serving patrons that opt to not come order form me, and wiping tables. the shop is cozy, but large. The tables are are collages of pictures or words the chairs are random arm chairs, bean bags, camping chairs, rocking chairs, and the like. The walls are collages with pictures, articles, posters, signs, whatever a patron feels like hanging up stays forever. There is one wall that was white but is no covered in signatures and quotes. There are two stages in the shop for people to perform, but something is not how I use to imagine it. One stage is in use some singer sing writer guy is standing there whining about life and strumming his guitar, but on the other stage is the solar system. It is suspended there in the middle of the stage, floating in mid air. The sun, the planets orbiting, and turning on their axes. This solar system is clearly not scale. There it was though, no one seemed to notice, or care, they just watched the singer-song writer and sipped their lattes. Something obviously is going to go wrong. The stage bursts into flames, the one with the solar system. I stare at it, and everyone else runs out of the building. I stare at it. I grab that hose that is apparently underneath the bar and I spray the stage. The fire goes out but the solar system falls and hits the stage, which is now more of a pool or some kind of tub, filled to the top with water, but draining to a black abyss. I stare and put the hose away. I still have not actually moved. The singer song writer did not leave he is chard and still whining about whatever to the sounds of his guitar. The pool holding the solar system is drain, I walk over and I stare, the water is now halfway down, I jump in all of a sudden I am in some large body of water perhaps the ocean. The solar system is gone except for earth which is now about the size of a basketball, and I am frantically swimming for it. This is the cool part, I reach it and lift it above my head and the ocean disappears, because the ocean was from the earth being in water. So anyway I am on solid ground now and I start walking to somewhere, but I trip and the world flies out of my hands and hits the ground where it proceeds to shatter, and the ground beneath me crumbles and I am falling, falling, falling.

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