Dear Editor,
it is a dream a i cannot really share with anyone; after all am moderately respected citizen and release of this dream to the public would cause irreversible damage to my career to my reputation, my subsistence, and subsistence of my children and their children too.
Yet, the dream is too burdensome to be locked in my bedroom, hidden behind heavy curtains, damped by old air. And i write it and i wish I had not learn how to write.
I trust you will not publish this dream, neither the reply, nor even mention you have ever received it. My trust comes from years I spent being your devoted reader; at my early years simply using your newspaper as a perfect spot to piss on, later, to make a poo, and gradually evolving through the cross-word, burial annoucements, to finally, at this late age, reach the first page. Nevertheless, I do expect to receive your reply by a personal messenger, duly sealed in a gray envelope. Only then I will be able to open curtains in my bedroom, let in the fresh air and sun, after so many days, so many hours.
Hopefully yours,
Sognatore Stanco
If it is just about physics, I mean physiology, it is ok, I hear the voice of a woman saying, and as often in my dreams, there is nothing around, just that voice, and the moment that voice vanishes, the things start happening, and off I start walking down a street, and i see people passing and women among them and i hear that voice repeating in my head “if it is just…it’s ok”, and so i take the women one by one, first by hand, and we go to some hidden places, but no one says anything, it’s ok, it’s ok, so i become impatient and i take them by force, in the middle of the street and there are people passing above us, but no one says a word, and so i continue walking at this violent pace furthter down the street, some more ‘if’ appear in my head, and yes, why not, i try girls that are younger and younger, yet no little boys, i briefly consider taking dogs, but i find their open jaws full of salina too vulgar, sheeps are ok though, especially with those little clever sheperds, two keeping the animal at right angle, the third one playing flute sitting on top of it. It is getting dark, and they light on the yellow street lights, one of the kind that gives more shadow than clarity and I notice grocery stalls, and why not, after all it is just about physics, I ask for watermelons, heated with all day sun, and for chopped beatroots, and they offer me roasted peanuts too, and it’s ok, not even an eyebrow is raised, not a word is uttered.
And then i reach the end of the tarmac, the night seems to come to and end too, and it is chilly, i put my hands into my pockets, and i discover something there, soft and candy like, but it is not a candy and i know it, no point to fool myself, and i feel sudden warmth, hot not warmth, till now everything was cool, now it is coming up exactly from my underbelly, and all comes up together, the spicy peanuts, the melon seeds, the stubborn donkeys, plastic women and i know: these are the condoms. full, brand new pack, not even touched.
the pain is burning my jeans, i look around, no one to rescue me, no one to ask for help, am desperate, unpack the condoms, and and ultraslim extra lubricant for extended pleasure, and i swallow them one by one, no point in trying to chew, and people pass by and none says anything, just a woman passing by, dark blue skirt, plastic shopping bag says to herself, as if checking if she hadn’t forgotten to buy anything: if it’s just for pure pleasure it is ok, after all, it is ok, it is ok, …