Zen Dream
(Cape Cod, 1980s)
I’m flying thru the sky, very high, super conscious, seeing blue, only blue, incredible blue, and I’m ecstatic, so ecstatic I’m crying—not only in the dream but for real, crying in ecstacy. Suddenly I land with a thud on a city street and begin having sex with a stranger.
Next scene: I’m sitting on a corner with my friend Larry eating rare London broil. A voice says, “You were pulled down by sex.” Pause. Then the voice says, “You were pulled down by eating meat.” Pause. Then, with dry finality, the voice says
“You were pulled down by gravity.”
