Friday, Sept. 12, 2003 - 3:01 pm
Um... I'm sorry.
This relationship just isn't working for me.
I'm at www.dailypreciousness.org now. So change that bookmark.
I dreamt of a boy who swallowed a tapeworm. For years upon years, he ate all day, but never gained a pound. He ate bananas and yogurt, ketchup and French fries and he never skipped his dessert.
And then one day, his clever father had a clever idea. The father decided to stop feeding the worm in his son’s belly. He told his son to fast, to starve the worm. He tied a piece of garlic on a string and had the boy swallow it. Carefully, he slowly pulled the garlic back up. And the boy kept the garlic on his tongue, just as his father instructed. Before long, a tiny white worm head appeared in the back of the boy’s throat. The worm had smelled the garlic. Slowly, the little white worm curved up out, towards the garlic. The boy moved the garlic to the tip of his tongue. With the speed of an attacking mongoose, his father caught the little worm’s head with a pair of tongs. Carefully, he pulled the worm out of his son’s throat. The boy gagged, but continued to breathe. Inch by inch, the father pulled the tapeworm out, until it spiraled on the ground. When he reached the end, the tapeworm was 10 feet long – twice the height of the boy.
That was it. It was a strange dream right before a whitewater rafting trip. You think I would’ve dreamt about the spraying and swaying thundering white foam beneath my feet. Not that that *necessarily means* anything....
