laughing gas / dream / evidence / annotation
[muted burgundy jazz set]
Please, Dr. Higgins, don’t start. I’m not asleep yet.
(faint red square pre-drawn on roof)
It’ll be alright, baby. We’re on a schedule.
You are under arrest, sir.
All I did was film what was happening.
(bound to self metallic)
You were saying some nasty words, as well.
I don’t remember that at all.
Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
[saxophone gold jazz set]
Then they made me look ina fisheye at my own puckering liver.
<child’s handwriting, true:> Once there was a YOU.
He liked me so he squeezed
his body
onto
mine and was super nice
to me.
[cool blue atmospheric wash]
Then she told me I sat really well. It barely hurt.
And who will be picking you up from the police station?
A home invasion, but all they took was a first grade composition notebook.
Are you asleep yet? We finished the procedure.
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I can feel how carefully crafted this is. It’s incredible.
I love the way you use spacing and the sound descriptions in brackets, it makes it feel more like a procedure/experiment. Great job!
I liked the exploration of ways the dreamsubconscious world can seem incoherent in the light of day, yet can have its own rules and reality. Nice writing, River.