Congealed, the masses writhe on the bright city streets. Maggots. The smell of burned popcorn and curried meats laced with the sweet cotton candy aroma of funnel cake shaped sewer-holes steaming with putrid wreak. Dozens of dialects and languages buzz white noise mosquito fights and the calamity is a sustained warm foam bath on a still hotter night. The crunch of pavement beneath my boots satisfies with every hard-heeled step. Unique ants of evolution with higher IQ's and lower aspirations. I am trapped in a trash heap of souls. I am alone among them and I am either preparing for the grave or success. Either way it looks the same from the bedlam.
I squeeze my eyes shut, hard. I hear them squish in their sockets. Full palette blooms splotchy. You can see with your eyes closed! I purge the spent breath from my lungs as if poisonous. Inhale deep the summer in the city.. the summer, in the city.
Asleep and dreaming? Everything keeps passing me by in swirling clouds of colorful dust, all dirty Carrickmacross Lace with millions of pinpoints alight in full spectrum, bodies rushing by transparent in their own purpose driven by free will. In rare moments of lucidity (imaginations) I realize that I am the stranger, a man out of his time.
"The trouble with dreams is they don't come true and when they do, they can catch up to you," whispers the hovering crimson cold above.
Red skies at night, oh, oh, oh, oh oh, oh oh oh





