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Journal Entry #33

1:58 am – woke up – anxious – didn’t know why
2:18 am - melatonin - glass of water - twitter on my tablet
2:40 am - second sleep
5:13 am - woke up - groggy – stumbled, almost fell down the stairs
5:15 am – fixed coffee and read the obituaries on my tablet - knew somebody
5:58 am – showered - stared at the water
6:41 am – breakfast – 2 bowls Frosted Mini-Wheats, almond milk
8:00 am – work – kept having to clear my throat - everyone put on headphones
5:13 pm – gin and water - listened to sad music, thought about a time
7:09 pm – dinner - turkey toast, muffin w/apple butter
7:40 pm - tried to read Why We Sleep but kept dozing off
8:42 pm – walked the dog - turned back at Cooper’s house
10:09 pm – went to bed – tried to read Why We Sleep
10:14 pm – asleep

started dreaming:
I’m standing in a dimly lit room with a wooden floor that sounds like a drum when you walk. There’s a man wearing a boxer’s satin shorts. Something’s wrong with his arms, the way they hang, like he doesn’t have any shoulder joints. There are boxing gloves on his hands. As he walks towards me, he twists his waist back and forth which makes his arms whip around like limp ropes. He stops just close enough that the whipping boxing gloves are pummeling me. I’m trying to get away but the punches are coming with such speed and force they have me pinned against the wall. My nose is bleeding. My eyes are swelling up and closing. And then a punch, square up side my head, slumps me to the ground. Everything goes black. I’m hanging upside down from a rope tied to a tree limb. All I have on is my underwear. There’s a cow pasture fence just out of my reach and all the cows are there looking up at me. There are beams of light coming out of their eyes. There’s a hunter-man walking towards me sharpening a big knife on a sword-sized steel

4:16 am – woke up – anxious
4:25 am – laid in bed and thought about a time

Journal Entry #31

3:59 am – woke up – dry cough
4:13 am – fixed coffee and read the obituaries on my tablet
5:08 am – went for a run - waved to an old lady pushing an empty baby carriage
5:45 am – showered - contemplated whimsy
6:22 am – breakfast – boiled brown egg and ketchup, wheat thins, buffalo dip
8:00 am – work – lied to a co-worker about something stupid
5:19 pm – whiskey and water - thought about a time
7:19 pm – dinner - “breakfast for dinner” - pancakes with grape jelly
9:42 pm – walked the dog - took blurry pictures of the moon
10:20 pm – went to bed – thought about things I should have said
10:57 pm – asleep

started dreaming:
I’m lying on a busy sidewalk. People are walking around me, stepping over me. I get kicked. A hot liquid splashes on my head. A little girl holding her mother’s hand walks past, “Mummy, why doesn’t that man get up?” “Because he doesn’t want to”, the mother says. I’m also up in the air looking down. Rats start gathering. It’s raining. I’m walking through some woods. My arm is in a sling. I come across a man sitting against a tree. I tell him I have hurt my arm while flying. He laughs and says that he can’t believe a word I say. “Everybody knows about you.”, he says. He turns on the light beams that come out of his eyes and when he looks at me the beams go into my body and come out of my back.

3:56 am – woke up – dry cough
4:12 am – stepped on the cat’s tail

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