By Misti
Date: 2003 Nov 07
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Cameron Diaz Nightmare

after watching "200 Cigarettes" and reading
another chapter of Blood and Money
and falling asleep beside you
after much tenderness despite the
fight over my candy shopping spree
and insistence on a Chicken McNugget
combo from McDonald's
I delved deep into the troubling realm
of bizarre sexual nightmares
a drastic change from my dreams
of yesterday morning
when instead of looking for a job
or seeing a movie with the free tickets
you won at work
I slept and dreamed of living in a commune of
beautiful free-spirited non-materialistic
women younger than myself on the tip
of a craggy mountain
and I was looking down on a double rainbow
...there was no rainbow in my nightmares
last night but an AOL news report
on the death of Cameron Diaz
then the story changed
she only lost her legs
ran over by people who resented
her fame and power and sexual relationship
with Justin Timberlake
and I was horrified thinking
my god she won't be able to do
those hot shit karate kicks anymore
and then I was laying beside a strange man
I loved on a pallet in the dark den of
my deceased great-grandmother's
trailer house and I was sure someone
who wanted to kill me was looming over
me and the strange man I loved wouldn't
wake up even though I screamed his name
and yanked his arm
and when I finally awoke
I stared at the red digits of the
alarm clock on your side
of the bed
and thought of the hours so long and spidery
my failures
and lack of friends and sorely needed
attention and as always I thought of
my lackluster job history and those
ominous piles of laundry
and I told myself
I know it's shit
it's always shit
but I need some orange juice
I need to write.