| I i am the amusement park with misha and the kids. we stop to eat some lunch on a grassy knoll, and i notice two girlfriends (not based on anyone in real life) sitting a few feet away from us. i stand up to go talk to them, and we start laughing and chatting. they pull out some hidden beers and a couple of flasks, and i sit down to start drinking with them. one of them is diminunitive next to the other. the bigger girl is wearing a pink denim miniskirt, and when she changes her seating position and goes to cross her legs, a very large set of penis and testicles slip out from under the skirt, and i realize she is actually a man. she remains seated that way, with her genitalia exposed, looking definite and heavy, just sitting there on the grass in the summer sun. we keep drinking and talking. it is no big deal to me. II misha and i are walking through this desolate place...half-desert, half- dried up forest. we are looking for someone's house or a store or something, but there are no buildings in sight. i am thirsty, and it is hot. finally we crest a sand dune and see a run-down looking wooden house just a few hundred yards off. misha gets very excited and starts running, dragging me behind him. when we arrive at the building a HUGE man comes up dressed in brown leather pants, no shirt, and wearing two swords strapped to his back. he invites us into his house and misha begins examing the sword collection he has, looking for one to buy. i see the man is actually stained with gore and blood, all up and down his arms and torso. i ask him if he had been fighting earlier that day and he takes me by the hand and leads me out behind the house where there is a well. all around the well are corpses. he seems proud. i say "i'm not burying them that's up to you." he shrugs and tells me the vultures and hyenas will come soon enough. i want to tell misha it's time to leave, and that i don't think he should buy a sword, because we have no backyard at our new house, where bodies can decompose. but there is no changing his mind. |
| april 13th, 2002 |