Sunday, January 29, 2012

Smoke hanging in the air against rugged hillsides. Big Sur, Laurel Canyon, or the summit of The Grapevine.

Next, I'm waiting around at the SF apartment. Picking something up? I go thru a stack of records in the living room but in a perfunctory way and nothing jumps out at me as being especially important. I'm tempted to look in the bedroom (does he still have that Les Paul?) but I don't.

After a while the room is full of half-familiar people and I realize that I am naked. As I gather up my clothes off the floor I make up some excuse as to why I prefer to wait undressed.

Suddenly, I'm in class. A special ed room but I'm a student there. I'm late and all of the students are already seated. When I find my seat I have difficulty taking it because it's legs sink into the floor of white gravel. I fall over backwards. The solution that comes to me is to assemble one of the wheelchairs that are lying in pieces to one side of the room. As I struggle with its complex, elliptical parts I notice that big Daniel Zuniga is there. Stoic as ever but none of his compulsive headbanging. He sits still in a wheelchair with a partial cage restraint, wearing an orange sweatsuit decorated with fine golden sigils.

I'm dressed in a coverall pica suit and arm splints. Sensations of physical smallness. Running away I shout: "I don't belong here! I went to UC Berkeley!"

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