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King Kong Crab

dreamed 2008/9/20 by Wayan.
I'm riding round town in a Volkswagen van
with the middle seat torn out. We lounge
on blanket-draped junk: two girls and me,
one new to our class of wizardry
or a guest. I feel obliged to show her round.
She senses (and, I think, thus lures)
things from other planes--and I'm unsure
whether to call them people, creatures or
just entities. Pure power!

A shadow falls. We look up between
glass towers. A slice of bright orange ring
floats silent, linked to a rod blocks long.
Starship, or praying mantis? This thing
she's drawn is... how vast? Can't see it all.
Skyscrapers hide great swathes. Below,
pigeons, cars and crowds alike fall
hushed and still. We go
silent too, bow heads, close eyes. Off it glides,
a King Kong crab. Or ship. Or geometric cloud.
Slowly terror fades; we dare to talk aloud.

The other girl's a classmate of mine,
smallish, beautiful, brilliant. I long
to know her more, but shadowed by
that bold monstrosity, we just
talk shop: this inadvertent magic.

Turns out we two use a similar trick
to minimize (we can't prevent)
such hazardous breakthroughs of awe:
we fire-walk mentally around
their outlines. Spirit-silhouettes!
We think about them, yet
don't think of them, and thus do not
summon things we may regret.
At least not often.
Well, not fatally. Yet.

In this great city our wariness seems right.
Mystics seek desert caves, wild shores
not for their own peace and quiet!
For yours, my friend. For yours.

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