nightmare children- the proposition


sometimes we make up stories to lull ourselves to sleep...

when we wake, we are one person, yes?
most of us, anyway.
but just one person...wants so much to do so many things.
one person disagrees with itself as often as two people- even as often as lovers.
let us assume, then, that when we sleep, we remain:
one person.
but in dreams, we are:
male
female
black and white and shades of grey and technicolor
living, dead, asleep?


the persecuted/the persecutorthe victim/the saviour
the witch/the *****the prince/the madmanthe child/the ancient

�1998 tea.