Thinker : Dreams : Declare the Whole Road Unsafe
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I meet an old girlfriend in the woods near a cabin. We are talking . I'm crying because she can't love me and we can't be together. Then she is missing. I run to school to get her. President Clinton is chasing me.

In an open space, I begin to fly—not for the joy of it but, rather, to escape. I take off my boots in mid-air and loose altitude. I take off my pouch and side belt. I remove my coat so I can fly better.

The authorities are looking for me. In the dark, I return to find my coat and wallet and bag. I meet a man looking for a truck in the dark. A small boy tells the man that a truck is just behind him in the mist on the other side of a lake. The man turns a round and sees a nice Nissan truck behind him. He gets in that truck.

Coming down a washboard hill is the truck the boy mentions. I go back for my belongings in a building. Now I have two sweaters. A Macintosh computer playing the radio. I turn it on. Then have to hit a different button to turn it off.

Through a gate is a geyser area. I decide to travel to a distant town, ten miles on foot. I meet two girls that I've seen on the street. The road we are on turns to gravel suddenly. There are traffic control orange horses blocking out path. The authorities have declared the road unsafe. The girls decide that since the authorities have already declared the road we are going onto unsafe, we should declare the whole road unsafe, even the part that the authorities like.

First written Mon, Mar 2, 1998
Last published Wed, Jun 2, 1999