Sleeping Princess Yum Yum

"Bang!" goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van/ see the light ram through the gaps in the land/ many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree/ Til' you near him on the motorway and the tree begins/ to breathe/ Coming in with the golden light/ In the morning/ Coming in with the golden light/ Is the New Man/ Coming in with the golden light/ Is my dented van/ Woomera. "Dree-ee-ee-ee-ee- A-a-a-a-a- M-m-m-m-m- Ti-ti-ti-ti-ti- I-i-i-i-i- Me-me-me-me-me,"

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Poor/ All my life I've always been Poor/ I keep asking God what I'm for/And He tells me "gee I'm not sure"/Sweep that floor, kid

We are lining up to start the show. I am 4th. We have red costumes with sequins on them and heavy headdresses. I hug the girl behind me. It's a rehearsal - our last rehearsal and the first 3 girls come out singing their parts of the song. It goes quiet and I am supposed to run down the steps and start my part of the song as they run away, but I get there and I don't know how the song goes or what I am supposed to sing. I don't remember rehearsing this at all, and the only song that is going through my head to sing is Seymour's first solo in "Skid Row" from Little Shop of Horrors. So I tell the music director, who is sitting in the second row behind a giant screen, and he and the director are mad - they say that I was doing so well and did such a cute job with the beginning. I tell him that I have another song stuck in my head and it's keeping me from singing my actual part. They say something like "well that'll do it" and have me come down into the audience to look at the words. Maybe if I can see the words, I can remember them. I stand with him in front of the screen, and watch him delete things - he starts to delete my part. I have no recollection of any of what I am supposed to be singing. I don't recognize any of it. I am confused but not upset or worried - just really irritated.

I head back up to the stage to try again, but it's no use, nothing comes to mind. I try making up words and as it is I can barely hear the music. I am angry at this point because I have had no rehearsal, and I think that it's just ridiculous for us not to have rehearsed it. I don't bother explaining this to them, because at this point I figure they won't believe me so I tell them to just cut me out of the show.

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    I am in a huge parking lot that stretches all the way from one horizon to the other and which is only interrupted at random intervals by blocky, pixellated-looking pylons which are painted red and white stripey, like fire engines or candy canes. I am on my knees vigorously chipping away at a tiny piece of asphalt which is underfoot. I think I see a quarter or a penny embedded deep in the pavement and I know I can't leave the Endless Parking Lot until I pick it out and make a wish.

    The quarter is octagonal and has a picture of the cow fron Chik-Fil-A on it, holding a sign that says something like "IN CHIKIN WE TRUST" but that's not really it.

    As I pry the coin out of the ground sparks start to fly from all around my fingertips and I suddenly smell the overpowering scent of yellow mustard in the air. I remember I needed the coin to buy a hamburger and I am supposed to get a packet of mustard from the little shelf on the side of the vendor cart and open it and put in on my hamburger and then when all the mustard is squeezed out of the packet the letters on the front of the packet will change like some sort of code. And they will tell me what I am supposed to do.

     
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