he wondered what kind of things woke people in the middle of the night from their sleep

he was careful to say sleep because hed been told more often than he would have imaginedan he had a copious imagination that they didnt dream

                                    didnt dream disconcerted him his sleep rarely wasnt roiled by dreams he rarely slept black senseless nights

last night he dreamed the word accumulated

                                                 it formed over the profile of the first car he ever owned  cost him sevenhunred dollars  his dad cosigned a loan for him  he didnt hang his dad out to dry like a couple of his siblings did

he was livid  his father said Well, son, you don’t loan money if you can’t afford to lose it.

                                                                                             terrible to have thieves as siblings

the stationwagons profile was obscured an began to fade as ACCUMULATED capitalised itself and grew larger an largerbecame so prominent that while he slept he began playing with its letters dislocated it  mule  ACCUMULEATED

acumen  ACUMENLATED  delineated  ACCUMULDELINEATED

                                                                                                 the game playing provoked him to splash the walls of his skull with the words like graffiti so when he woke he wouldnt forget them

                                                                                  Lo an Behold

what did wake him from this dream he was running for state office as some cat named Ogilvie his face was plastered on blackanwhite posters however when he was approached by people he denied he was Ogilvie but still defended and informed his plank lotsa blue collar workers rallied for him he woke from that particular skit before the election results were in

        what woke him was his backhe was a backsleeper Off of me bum  so he moved to either his right or left shoulder knowing full well that his return to the grace of sleep an dreams would be shortlived  he had surgeries on both so he snatched maybe halfhourforty minutes he didnt knowhe didnt keep a clock in his bedroom anwaking he bypassed his back to the other shoulder  anwhen it took what it could hed wake and return to his back usually for the rest of the night anif not back to his shoulders to shoulder the load

other skits interspersed the ACCUMULATED dislocations  mule  a creature needed to haul things he accumulated

a fit young woman walked a dog over a highway bridge towards him where he stood on a grassy parkway beside a freshly dismembered dinosaur haunch a raptor clawed foot if he had to guess itd be a tyrannosaur as she stood with him admiring the yetbleeding haunch the small dog was inquisitive she kept it at a distance as it strained in its harness overheating she asked him to please take the leash for a moment he did she stripped out of her zippered sweatshirt to her sports bra tied it around her hips then took the dog back a white Sealy mattress semi passed them he remarked with a laugh that likely hed be offloading it later that morning

   acumen if ones fortunatehe was he ACUMENLATED developed the ability to make good judgments quick decisions based on facts

                walking through the same crowded mall where he would later say after switching shoulders he wasnt Ogilvie he entered a Mens shop to return a shirt his daughter bought him longsleeved wrong sleevelength he had the receipt he wanted the same shirt a clerk informed him they didnt have that shirt in stock and that he also checked with their other stores within the vicinity which proved fruitless he asked for his daughters cash back anif the young man wasnt authorised hed speak with the manager

                                                     eventually the manager broke corporate rules and reimbursed his daughters money

   delineate he was particular to describe or portray (something) precisely or to the best of his abilityhe didnt do things halfass he ACCUMULDELINEATED patiently  one can near precision hone if they are patient

                                                                                                   his accumulated patience didnt come cheap surgeries recoveries rehabilitations  being a patient

                                                                             he was in a strange neighbourhood there were parkways which reminded him of the memory dreams become memories of the attractive young woman her dog the dinosaur leg  they ticked through his sleeping mind as he stopped at a Sinclair ofcourse he would to ask for directions when he thought he was near the address  the attendant set him straight  inside ten minutes he knocked at the door

Dad, what are you doing here?

he couldnt ply her with I was in the neighbourhood she had dieddidnt have a neighbourhood he didnt know where he waswhere she was

                     except she stood in the doorway of a house that suited herthat if he had a selection of a dozen homes it was the house she would have chosen  not him

                                                            I miss you I wanted to see you

she threw her arms around him

he wrapped her in his they both began to weep

they squeezed each other tight NO

                                       Please NO  NOnot yet

he wokeshoulder achinghearing himself say I love you

he wondered what kind of things woke people from their sleep

after 0600,  Twosday,  14  12. 21

1149,  Twosday,  14  12. 21

Aerosmith  Dream On  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89dGC8de0CA