The Venus Dream:
The dream was erotic and Venutian. The star of the
show was undoubtedly Allison from Plan Nine Alehouse. The entire narrative was
set on the Palomar College campus. It seemed to be perpetually day-time: an
interesting concept considering that Summer is around the bend I.A.L. Summer
was all so central to the narrative. The archetype of Cancer and Motherhood notwithstanding,
there is an ongoing parallel to the Summer Holidays. One is reminded of the
song “The Boys of Summer”; I never understood it, but now I do. An attractive
female is tempted by vanity. She betrays the love of her Springtime Lover in
favour of the “boys of summer”, so that when he finds her again she has been
transmuted into a Goddess, austere and condescending unto him in her vanity. So
he takes the role of Aries, aspiring to show her “what [he’s] made of”,
promising to live up to this Godlike Ideal should she choose to have him again.
In the contemporary day and age vanity is a problem
for many women. Upon their luxurious throne they know not what they want, so
they cling to the power of choice. They want the cake but dare not eat it. So
long as they remain detached the world seems to be theirs.
Allison is of such a character in the dream. When
the schoolyear was ending she had an enormous crush upon me and was really
leading me on. Back then she wore an ordinary shirt with ordinary tattered
pants and a virginal smile. But come Autumn she had been transmuted into the
very image of austerity. And her bodyguards fend me off with threats.
Is she not the epitome of what has happened?
Dm.A.A.
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