A Poem About Lucid Dreaming
The Clown and the Tree
As I poured a glass of tea
I saw a girl with no shoes on
She danced in the busy, whizzing road
And collapsed upon my lawn
She had a subtle gray complexion
Mud and leaves throughout her hair
She had moss along her dark, round eyes
But maintained a piecing stare
I took a sip of sun-steeped tea
And looked at her some more
Then she dug a tunnel in my lawn
And came up through my floor
She looked at me and said that I
Was dead to all I knew
And all the life I'd had before
Was dead forever too
So I looked about my little home
And in my living room
There sat a clown who laughed and said
You'll catch on pretty soon
I sat and sipped my glass of tea
But the clown pulled it away
And said, see here, just stir it more
We'll have us Cabernet
Then I heard a rumble from my room
As the girl climbed through my bed
She skipped along my hall
And pranced into my den
She tried to sit on top of me
But I threw her from my lap
Then she thrust her arm into the clown
And pumped him full of sap
So I stuck my spoon inside him
And stirred his blood around
Then he turned a blackish purple shade
And belched a drunken sound
He roared, we must escape her
We need a faucet and a tub
So we staggered to the bathroom
And he passed out on the rug
I opened up the faucet
And let the water run
As I kicked the clownish savior
To wake him for the fun
The water grew and waved about
As the clown dizzily rose
Then he asked I grab him on the face
And twist his radish nose
I turned it like a doorknob
And his mouth became a door
I stepped inside and found myself
Inside a wooden drawer
Now I paused in all the chaos
I was dead even before noon
Then I thought of why I shouldn't
And grabbed a giant spoon
I leapt into his mouth again
Against his teeth my feet did click
Then we used the spoon I had retrieved
And beat the water thick
The tiles began to glow deep red
And the pool kicked down the door
Then I saw my home all decked in roots
And the tree girl dancing as before
The clown and I swam to her
With the swelling cabernet
And while she struggled in the rapids
Her tender heart fell on display
I held her as the rushing wine
Dissipated from the room
And when she asked why I had saved her
I said, you'll catch on pretty soon
(if life was a lucid dream sort of)