Monday, August 4, 2008

Waiting for the sun on my face

I had two very vivid dreams last night. One is sensitive in nature and has (I guess) to do with a potential (my) copyright. But the one I want to share happened earlier in the morning:

Setting:


I'm old. I know at this time, the girls are in their twenties. I'm sitting by the window waiting for the morning sun to shine on my face.


Navah: Daddy, Assata's an asshole.


Me: What happened, baby?


Navah: As you know, I threw a party last night. Assata comes over with her friends and starts being judgmental of my friends and starts telling them shit that I said.


Me: Did you say those things?


Navah: Yes, but behind their backs! Anyway, she starts telling them all kinds of shit, and I start denying it. I told her to get the fuck out!


Me: Man, that was wrong. [Drifting away, now. Looking outside the window...]


Navah: Oh, I'm sorry. Are you busy now? Should I call back later when you give a fuck?
Where's mommy?


Me: Huh? Oh, she's....


Navah: I'll call you later.


Me: [Takes a sip from my coffee cup. Getting excited about the sun about to shine on my face].

The phone rings.


Me: Hello?


Assata: Dude, your daughter is an asshole!!


Me: What happened?


Assata: She invited me to this party, right? And I'm like, I don't want to be around them fruity she-she sheep, right? So I'm like, I got some stuff to do, Nav. And she's like insisting that I need to be there because “I'm gonna add to the scene”, she says, right?


Me: Right.


Assata: So I go there with my peoples, right? And they getting' bored and the fruit loops start lookin' at us all crazy. So I'm like , “fuck y'all!” Why they got to be boojie like that?


Me: Well, some of your friends are convicted felons, sweetie.


Pause.


More Pause.


Assata: Oh, I guess you're busy. I'll call back when you feel like being an objective parent!


Me: Wait, I...


[click]


Wifey is on her phone now.


Wifey: Hold, on. Hello?


Assata: Your husband is an asshole.



Wifey: Hey, I'm talking to Navah. Don't call your father an asshole. I'm putting you on three-way.


Assata: No, I don't want to talk to...


Wifey: Hey, Nav. Satti's on too.


Navah: What? I don't want to talk to her! She's an asshole. Like daddy.


Assata: You a asshole! I ain't nothin' like him....


The sun was about to creep up on my face, then I woke up.

The tragic and ironic end.

2 Responses:

Renegade Eye said...

It seems like a nightmare to me.


Regards.

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