Thursday, March 12, 2009

Television vision

I can only see a television screen. Any area outside the square of vision is black. I am watching a woman being dragged out of her house and strapped to a table with wheels. The table is tied to an ambulance, it is very white. The camera taking the video is clearly from of a chopper, as it is high and to the left of the scene; it is very shaky. It zooms in on her face; she is a white woman, late thirty's, looks plain, looks normal, maybe she is a school nurse. She is crying, red faced, hyperventilating. The ambulance begins to move and the camera follows the table as it is pulled by the ambulance.

The voices begin discussing the alien ants embedded in her brain. I realize they are news casters. They have a scientist discussing how they will begin to remove the ants. Either they can go longways across the top of the head, opening the skull and picking the ants out one at a time. Or they can saw from top to bottom. Opening the face like elevator doors, and allowing the ants to flow out with the blood. The camera zooms in closer on her face, the tears are streaming and the look of terror is total. I watch her slowly her breathing becomes shallow and fast. She grabs her throat and begins gasping. She dies on shaky copter cam, terrified, crying, and breathless from the insects in her head. The camera doesn't move away, which you would think it would. It just shows her lifeless, dragging behind the ambulance on a table with wheels.

I got up and drank three beers, showered and smoked a cigarette.

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