I float effortlessly into space. I see a white light, that appears to be the moon and I glide past it and as I look down the moon gets smaller and smaller as does the planet that it revolves around, our earth. I continue to glide into space, I go straight up, escaping our galaxy completely and enter a different universe. I know I’m moving fast but it doesn’t seem that way at all. Beautiful colors are everywhere and I flip and twirl in space like I was underwater, except I don’t have to hold my breath. Suddenly there is fire, fire everywhere. I can’t stop though I keep floating towards this infinite wall of fire. It is not the bright red that you are thinking of, it is the bright red that you see when you close your eyes as tight as you can. It has those little yellow circles inside the blackish red, and I see this color forever, at least it seems forever. Suddenly though, I come out of this black hole and enter what seems to be a new universe completely. But it is more like a planet, because I see mountains and rivers and oceans and although I am still floating it seems like I am not moving nearly as fast as I was before the red fire. Abruptly, I completely stop midair and fall down to the ground. I fall fast and hard and land in the middle of what seems to be a dance floor. I wonder what happened to the roof as I look up at it on the ground. Maybe it was a portal. I have fallen into a party that reminds me of one of the underground raves that I used to frequent back in Pittsburgh. Except instead of electronic music there is a band on stage that plays a music that sounds like reggae. It seems like there are four hundred or five hundred young kids everywhere. Beautiful girls in skimpy clothing along with hundreds of other kids grooving to this amazing music. I get up and start dancing. As I dance three girls approach me and we have this amazing connection. I look deep into one girls eyes and get lost inside them, forgetting where I am and how I got here. As I dance though I can’t help but wonder if I am dead, and if this is my heaven.
I realize quickly though that this isn’t the case. I am jacked up by two huge men, that appear to be the bouncers, and I am thrown violently down to the ground. One of the men punches me in the face. Then the other one lifts me up by the shirt and then throws me down again, and then kicks me in the stomach.
“How the fuck did you get in here kid?!” the puncher asks.
“I fell.”
“What the fuck?”
“I fell, man. I did.”
They look at each other and then they look at me. Then they start to laugh.
“This dude is out of it man, look at his eyes.” the other guy says to the puncher.
“Yeah, lets get him out of here.”
They turn me over, and put handcuffs on me. They then lift me up and walk me out of the room. As I walk out I wink at the one girl who I was dancing with and she gives me one of those looks like she didn’t know who I was. But she digs me, I can tell.
As they walk me to my destination I act smooth and pretend like I am ‘out of it’. But, before they have time to react I start to run. I run faster then I have ever run before. I run through crowds of people pushing each person I run into aside. I step on two lovebirds making whoopie and I feel bad, but I keep running. Right when I think that I have lost them the puncher appears and I run right into him. My hands still cuffed, I am defenseless as he punches me in the stomach.
“You’re a frisky little bastard aren’t you,”
I can’t answer, I can’t speak. I don’t know what to say I just look at him and smirk.
“Damn dude, whatever you’re on you got to give me some.” he adds as he walks me to my certain doom.
He pushes me into a dark room and I fall to the ground. I hear a couple kids laugh. Then, I hear what sounds like two old women talking.
“These kids today are out of control.”
“Look at this dufus.”
“He looks like he’s been through a war.”
They must think that I don’t hear them. That I am completely oblivious to everything around me and that I am some sort of moron delinquent.
“I fell bitch.” I snarl back at them.
They just laugh.
“You fell? Poor child. Where did you fall from?”
“Earth.”
They start to laugh hysterically at me. Then they whisper to themselves.
“Where am I?” I scream, but they don’t answer. They’ve decided to ignore me.
Because of my handcuffs I can hardly stand up and as I try to stand up some kid pushes me over and starts to laugh. I recognize his laugh, it is the same laugh that I heard when I entered this room, this dungeon. I lie on the ground without moving for several minutes. I am woken up by someone tapping on my shoulder.
“What’s up dude,” a stranger asks.
“Not much man.”
“You want some moly?” he asks.
“Moly?”
“Yeah dude.”
“Hmm.”
“How much.” I ask, pretending to be interested. But I’m not really, because it is very expensive.
“I got a couple lines broken out right here, you look like you need one.”
“Fucking right.”
As I enter this new world of pleasure and overwhelming emotion thousands of thoughts enter my mind. I wonder where it is exactly that I am. Who is this kid offering me free moly? Who are the two old women in the corner? What happened to the roof when I fell? Why do girls always act like they like you until you get arrested? Why did I get arrested? Why do these aliens do moly and groove to reggae music? Why do they all look like me, like humans. It hits me, and I am certain that this world is my world. I am on earth. It must’ve been a bad dream, maybe I slipped into an old acid trip. Or maybe I smoked some wild herb, snorted heroin by accident. Or maybe, just maybe I’m like superman in this new world with special powers but I look like everyone else. I can lead a dual life here and bang Lois. That’s why I could fly, that’s where my speed came from. But what happened to me when that dude punched me in the face, what happened to my super powers then? I look over at my friend and it looks like he too has lost himself inside his mind. I start to laugh, and he looks at me and he laughs back.
“Dude, where the fuck are we?” I ask.
“I don’t know man, I don’t know.”
“Seriously, kid. I’m lost here. I must’ve eaten some weird mushroom or something but I seriously think I’m in a new universe. I am fucking out of control.”
He just laughs at me and says, “that is some good shit.”
“Yeah.”
“What did you get busted for?”
“Busted?”
“Yeah, why’d they put you in here.”
“That’s what I want to know.”
“Haha. You’re a fucking space case dude.”
“Yeah man, I traveled in space. I’m from earth. I’m a human.”
“What?”
“Yeah. Human. I’m from Philadelphia.”
“Sweet. I’m from Toronto.”

09/19/2005

Posted on 09/19/2005
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