lastnite: a dream journal

The only Native American at Iwo Jima

Zach and Tom were sitting on my bed. Phillipe Candeloro and I were leaning against my bed watching a documentary (see below for the plot summary). I offered Phillipe a handful of raw hamburger. He declined. A while later, I offered him some weeds smothered in Velveeta. I ate the weeds with Velveeta after he declined; they weren't actually that bad. Then, suddenly, I was sitting on the bed. Zach, Tom, and Phillippe were gone. The documentary was off, but my VCR was still taping.

Documentary:

It was about the only Native American to raise the flag at Iwo Jima; he later became a paraplegic. The documentary covered his whole life. He was Geronimo's grandson. He fell in love with a lady named Maria who spoke Esperanto.

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I "woke up" and it was sunny. (When I had actually woken up five minutes before, it was night and it was raining). The VCR clock said 11:00 am; the other VCR didn't say anything. It just had the OTR (one-touch-record) circle lit. I couldn't read my clock radio. I knelt on the ground to get my Michelangelo watch (I never had one, but it sounds like a wonderful Swatch), but I needed to get back down to get a flashlight too. The watch said 9:00 am. I flipped on my TV to watch Channel 2 for the time. The Home Shopping Club came on, selling a ring. I flipped through the channels until i learned that an earthquake in LA shut off all power to the US for a while. A 20-something guy was playing in a lake with waders. A Madonna video came on next. I got dressed, wearing 2 black shirts and a mustard yellow sweater. I looked in the mirror and I started to peel off chunks of my face. not just flakes, but four-inch leathery pieces. I thought about saving one. Under the leather layer, my face was blood-vessel blue and scab-removed pink. I had no nose. Then on TV was a Sesame Street cartoon with Adolf "Eigentliches." He was settin the record for "land travelled by using cannon-balls. Of course, the first one needed to be shot backwards..." He was on one of those see-saw-type railroad handcars.