book of dreams
Book of Dreams …… by edna floretta july 31st, 2007 edna floretta was sitting quietly talking with Karen Finley about art …she turned to her and said, ” i am a video artist, not a performist artist” …… karen finley smiled and winked. then edna floretta found herself in san francisco ….. tis was a strange day ….almost like a circus … as all of the icons from the 30’s, 60’s, and 90’s were roaming the streets of people . a man approached her and said i must introduce you to cliff ….. edna was trying to light a stick of incense off of a candle and was having great promblems getting it to light …..she looked up to a longed dark haired young man in t-shirt and jeans ….. he said i am staying in Diego’s house ….. he only has me there because i am famous for something i did in atlanta, georgia …. “what’s that?” said edna …. he just smiled. All of a sudden edna was in a stadium of black folks having church …… she sat down in the very last row and her drunk father sat beside her ….. he said ” you can write better songs than this ” and got up to leave pulling her arm …. edna said, “no, i’m staying” …. her father grabbed a teenage kid sitting next to her and said, “listen i want you to keep an eye on her, call me if you see anything suspicious …. he then gave him a business card with a police shield on it and the kid said … “sure thing…you must only make seven dollars an hour or you would be giving me the beans also. edna was then walking along a highway at night in the rain …. she was in her hometown of northwest ohio and the highway was hilly …. so she put herself in the lane outside of traffic sat on her butt and zoomed down the highway like a giant waterslide …. it was great fun. she saw a helicoptor above with its search lights on and decided that she should jump off the highway ….she landed in the yard of her junior high school. she went in, it was very dark and went to the theatre stage. she felt her way through the back past all kinds of interesting props … there was a very dim light and a figure emerged from a back room, ” ah , you scared me” said edna. the man had the longest black hair she had ever seen … like a native american …. but he looked french …. he grabbed her, talking in an accent ….you should be scared… did you hear who they are looking for ? he pulled her into him, turning her around so her back was towards him. his tall thin body pressed completely around her and his long hair fell into her face ….she struggled to get away as he began kissing her neck…..his arms holding down her arms ….. she was frightened at first but as he continued and she felt his hard cock press against her backside …she thought …” is this the man the psychic lady told me about ? ….. the one who i would meet under unusual circumstances …. and know it was right ….” she remembered the lady’s advice, marry him honey …. you will know its right, dont listen to what other people say about it. edna pulled away finally and flipped on a light …the man’s face was white like a vampire and he got so furious with her …..” you ruined my prints …all day long i’ve been working on these prints …now they are ruined” edna floretta saw a lit room off of the corner of the stage where her high school art teacher was sitting …. aged now she went up to her ….. ” who are they looking for ?” she asked ….. a murderer said mrs. radloff …. his signiture is to cut the perfect letter into your back ….. ” he was in my art class ” “oh no” said edna …. looking around the room … there was art everywhere …. “can i ask you a question?” said edna … yes oh course ….edna began nervously shaking she picked up a pen off her desk and couldnt keep it still in her hands ….” well, im not working now and i was wondering if you ever had college kids work with the high school art students ? ……” i dont know why my hands are so shaky, i guess it just really means alot to me ” said edna . Now edna floretta is in a drab white white room scrubbing a filthy bathtub as she scrubs the wall behind her lights up and images of angels are reflected upon it. It is dusk, and edna is swimming in the ocean with two young boys…… suddenly she is in the woods, playing a game on a table …. there are two women there being very competitive with her the idea of the game is to shoot the cue ball with a gun and knock over the pyramids as many as possible lined up like bowling pins …. edna shoots and knocks down two …. then the next woman steps up …. there is a very happy man dancing around the table ….. the woman shoots and hits him in the leg … out of no where comes running Bill from African Safari ….. he grabs the man and says show me your leg …. he then asks him if he’s ever seen the movie secretary ? ….. yes said the man …. well i’ll have you smiling in just a minute …. Bill then takes down his pants and cuts a chunk of skin from his own thigh …. he then goes to sew it onto the man’s leg. Edna is in downtown Toledo Ohio in the middle of the night, smoking alone a joint down by the river ….she thinks to herself Walmart sure has sexy lingerie now ….. just as the joint is finished she is kidnapped by two thugs and Mike Guerrero they take her in the back of a rickety truck all the way to south america …. she looks out and sees the country on fire men are shooting each other …… they arrive at a village and take her out for all to see ….. this is what middle america is …… look at her they shout . Edna Floretta got on a wrong boat across the San Francisco Bay and ended up in the lair of a creepy man with a freaky nose, he shot her in the ass with heroin and let all his creepy, disfigured men take their turn on her. When they sent her on the boat home she felt disgusting, as there was dry cum all over her body. Edna was with a group of students and their young vibrant teacher said to her, i am the master …. then he turned into a giant bird, a black bird that filled the whole sky and flew away. Edna Floretta was walking a came across a child with his mother who said … ” but mom we have to teach her how to cook, she cant cook ” and he took edna’s hand. Edna was then behind the counter of a store she just newly started working at, another child came behind the cash register and said, ” look i gave you two dollars …you just press in two hundred in the machine” Edna Floretta found herself in someone’s trailer … it was interesting as it had window slits in the roof of it with paper cutouts all along it like a stained glass window, but a very cheap looking type ….she realized the owners were about to come through the door and she had to explain how she got inside their house ….” hello, i was looking for my father ….there was a detour on this country road and i cant find him” the woman of the house had dark wavy hair and seemed a little unnerved but her children right away liked Edna so they went out into the yard to search for her father …… one of the girls who were there stuck her hand down Edna’s pants so fast she didnt realize what she had done ….” don’t do that ” said Edna …” i am bleeding ” , the girl took her hand out with blood all over her fingers and it looked like ketchup. ” That’s ok” said the girl, ” it will wash off ” …the mother smiled. Then on a bicycle came riding Edna’s father, ” my car broke down and so i slept on the beach and someone gave me this bike” But something was severely wrong …. her father was smiling so strangely …then he hopped off the bike and started doing slap stick comedy ….. and he kept laughing and laughing …. “oh no” thought edna … he has lost his mind, just as i had. She took him to the hospital where they operated on his brain….. after the operation he was still the same, the doctor said he might never recover. After college, Edna went back to eigth grade ….she wasnt doing so well in the classes but her biggest trouble was finding her locker …..she kept forgetting where her locker was and even worse the combination number to get into the locker ….. she was constantly going to the principal to ask where her locker was ….they understood she had some mental difficulties and would write her a late pass to get into class. Edna showed up at the San Francisco Art Institute right when the students were having a bit of a riot for their rights to study as they choose …. fires were lit all over the main floor of the school ….Edna was so proud to have been there, the right place at the right time. Edna’s high school sweetheart, Jimmy Radloff came back to town …. he wanted to find his true love again, he left his wife and kids … Edna touched him and melted … but when he took off his shirt he had a third breast under his left nipple. Edna Floretta found herself in a new kind of college, it was huge …. all indoors and included stores like a shopping mall …. she had just finished a class where teams of students worked on one painting …… the paintings turned out lovely, the students were argueing over who was to keep the finished paintings ….. there were three, an impressionistic sail boat, an image with a red curtain that revealed the sea and an ancient ship, and a clam shell ….. she left class and was trying to find her way to her car ….she couldnt remember which door she had parked outside of …… all of a sudden she ran into 5 girls from her highschool ….it took her a second but then she looked at Natalie and said ” but you are dead ” ….”YES” said Natalie …. its true, i am dead . i want you to meet my wife she said ….. and in came this pink mermaid/dinosaur creature. Edna danced with the creature and caressed it like a lover … then back to looking for her car …the more she walked the more classrooms and stores she saw …then out of nowhere a nice man puts his arms around her …. it felt so good, like old lovers …they smiled at each other and started kissing and touching hands and feet and sighing …. “i am staying here at the hotel, im not a student” says he. they started heading back to his room to make love, but then he was like ” i cant be with you, you have slept with so many men, what if you have aids …you have had an abortion for christs sake ” ….. how can i touch you now ? Edna and Seraph Jordan flew to Chicago …. when they arrived edna opened her suitcase and took out three jars that smelled like urine …..she then put perch fish filets in all three jars and poured champagne ontop of all of them till the bottle was empty ….. “angel’s never going to eat this” she thought … just then an announcer came over the loud speaker ….” three of our planes have been hijacked ” ” code 3, code 3, maximum security alert” everyone screamed and started running to leave the building ….. things started to explode …. we got outside and there were crowds everywhere ….. more things exploding outside ….. we didnt know which way to run ….. then seraph jordan grabbed a cheerleading cut out cardboard and ran behind it as fast as she could to the huge security gates …. she lept, and began to fly hovering actually …. with her legs in indian style position …. ” come on edna ” …..she said , people were pointing … look, that girl can fly ……… edna tried to make herself fly but was unable ….” i am sorry i made you come to chicago she said ” . Edna suddenly found herself inside her yellow bedroom she had as a child, laying on her canopy bed she had cried so many nights in. She felt her brother Brian lean over the bed and say, “are you all right ?” edna found herself in a huge auditorium at a secret meeting for a secret cult of witches ….. the women there ranged from very beautiful to grotesque yet all were so powerful, edna was soaking in the energy and being taught of their secret language . there were even a few men there. she stood on the second floor looking down at a ceremony given by the head witch. Edna was in Chicago again late at night …. she went to an after hours restaurant that charged a five dollar cover to get in to order greesey fries and pizza, on her way home she saw Joelle Rief naked in the street wrapped in a blanket … she took her home and gave her some clothes and a very warm bed to sleep in. Edna Floretta walked into a church choir conert when she did she noticed Natalie was in the choir … she pointed and screamed, but you are dead ! and the choir went wild ….singing and praising at the top of their lungs. Edna found herself doing a divination …. she held two baby giraffes or should i say shrunken live giraffes, minitures …. one in each palm of her hand. The divination was to ask a question and then spin around if one of the giraffes got weak in the knees and fell then the answer was no …. she did this and one on her left palm fell while she was spinning. she went to put them back in their cage and stepped with her shoe into a huge file of full sized giraffe shit. Edna was in a classroom now and her therapist Andee was the teacher … she was writing a poem in french on the board and Edna started to heckle her about it and cause a stir in the room. Andee turned around and she said, i want you to know this very poem was so special that it made my husband quit his job. the room then opened up over a landscape of water and there stood Andee’s husband in a treehouse like fixture over the water…. only this was like no tree house, it was a work of art …. it was one wall and a floor …the wall had wholes cut out of it in the most aestically pleasing ways …and there was a beautiful painting on the inside of the wall …. edna fell in love with it. edna’s friend stella vyne and her boyfriend paul came to visit edna … paul’s arm was bleeding very badly and edna bandaged it while stella played the guitar. all of a sudden paul started kissing the back of edna’s neck …. it was very erotic. Edna Floretta was at her high school prom again …. only it was a big party in a giant hotel that had a swimming pool in one of the dance halls . It was prom but everyone was able to drink alcohol. edna had to go to the bathroom but every stall she went into had piss and blood all over the toilet.