I woke up and it was bright outside. All I could see were the rabbits chasing each other as the trees swayed in the background. I smelled the paint on my hands. It smelled red, but I just couldn't think about it because I felt belligerence rising from the snake. I took care to repress it back into the box, but its fangs were like the twisted wires of your teenage years. I used to get caught in wires like those when I ran home from the meadow after playing dress-up. Torn open and more painful than hell when the devil melts sharp gouda cheese. I asked gently if it would kindly leave. 

We swam over, but not without difficulty because we were lost in the jungle. On the second try we felt success and entered the open arms. Seated halfway in the chair, I awaited my turn. Smooth. Apportion. Spread. Roll. Twist. Lick. Light. I watched amazed and could barely keep my head up in the sea of infatuation. I could see the eyes, but I could not yet tell. If I couldn't tell then, it will be a while before I can even hope to.It was my turn and I embraced it. Actually no. I voraciously exhausted it, but ignorantly. A few more. Then a bottle beckoned with its firey substance. He would help me enter the real world. Then I sat down on the wooden cat and my drums felt the melodies until my retinas analyzed their movements and I glanced over at my companion and the worms on her branches were floating higher than the yellow-ribbon kite skiing up overhead, carefully avoiding the hummingbirds that swayed with pink highlighter fins. I felt cupid dancing on my lips and tried to catch him with my tongue, was unsuccessful,  but the efforts were not terminated. All I could think about was myself. And yet there was nothing there. And then suddenly everything would be. They came back and I tried to join, but didn't know how to participate in such motor coordination. Then I felt the snake rising up and I had to get out of there, only enough time to pinch my companion and jump back into the cup. Did anyone know? I sure hope so. I have been living with my eyes closed!