Robert Cormack

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“Have you any dreams you’d like to sell?”  Stevie, Nicks, Fleetwood Mac

They say we dream four to six times per night — which is more than I want, believe me. I had one last night where a town was so corrupt, nobody cared anymore. Citizens got crazy drunk while local criminals robbed them blind. Nobody minded until they realized they didn’t have enough money to get drunk again — or the dog fixed. A lot of dogs in my dreams walk around with worms.

You might call my dreams scatological. I remember obscene things, some more obscene than others. James Comey complained about worms in one of my dreams. He got up from the Senate Committee Hearings and started dragging his ass across the rug. So many asses have been dragged across that rug. It looks like deep burgundy with a gold pattern on television monitors, but it’s really white shag going back to the 60s.

His spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, wouldn’t elaborate, only that Cosby might turn up with Pudding Pops.

President Trump was caught riding his golf cart across the green of his own course. Rules forbid that sort of thing, but Trump makes his own rules. He got off his cart and dragged his ass around the hole, singing, “It’s only right that you should play the way you feel it…” This doesn’t show up on any news coverage. You have to go to my dreams to see that wormy bastard turning the eighth hole into what pilots might mistake for a whirligig.

Bill Cosby got a mistrial in his sexual assault case after the jury came back deadlocked. They were too confused to know whether Cosby’s a gibbon or sloth. He plans to hold town hall meetings to educate young people about “problems their misbehavior could create.” His spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, wouldn’t elaborate, only that Cosby might turn up with Pudding Pops.

Melania Trump complained about comedienne, Kathy Griffin, holding her husband’s severed head, saying, “…a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it.” This followed Michelle Obama, who took offense to the Ty Company producing Beanie Babies of her daughters, and Hillary Clinton’s criticism of an SNL sketch that poked fun at daughter Chelsea’s preteen braces.

In my dreams, all three women get their revenge by running naked through the sprinklers on the White House lawn, singing, “Thunder only happens when it’s raining, players only love you when they’re playing.” This never happened in real life, of course, since the sprinkler system automatically shuts off when anybody’s having fun.

“We need Trump’s head on every lamp post in America,” he screamed, pulling a can of Miller Lite out of his crotch.

First Ladies, in fact, are required to limit any sprinkler activities to the East Wing where nobody has any fun. Speeches are often presented as soggy piles which has kept Trump’s speaking engagements short, since he can’t be bothered pulling the pages apart. President Bill Clinton, in his day, took the time to pull the pages apart. Soggy pages were common in the Oval Office.

The ghost of Hunter S. Thompson appeared in one of my dreams, laughing hysterically at the wonder of it all. “We need Trump’s head on every lamp post in America,” he screamed, pulling a can of Miller Lite out of his crotch. “Send one to the Kremlin in case that rat-faced Putin doesn’t have one of his own.”

No doubt Putin has heads of all kinds, some wax, some the real thing. I thought I’d mention that to Thompson, but he was on the phone to Kathy Griffin, telling her she should have rode Trump’s head like a dray horse. “Up yours, Hunter,” she screamed back, and somehow he pulled her head through the telephone receiver. “Here’s Johnny!” she laughed and asked Thompson for some reds or nitrous oxide.

They went off together through the phone lines of America, no doubt heading for Hollywood where Thompson plans to give Floyd Mayweather pointers on fighting Conor McGregor. “Watch the little bogtrotter’s feet,” he’ll say, openly admitting the idea of a UFC fighter and a boxer going toe-to-toe is like bees cross-pollinating roses with fire hydrants.

“She’s paler than me,” Thompson said, “and I’m dead! — or that’s what Rolling Stone said, but who believes those bastards anymore!”

Muhammad Ali tried that once in Japan with a martial artist. It got pretty silly and I’m sure that’s something Thompson wants avoided at all costs. Thompson’s a long-time pugilist and only respects blood-letting when it’s done in the interest of the sport — not the $100,000,000 each fighter will get if they live long enough after creaming each other’s croquettes.

“I’ll sit on Mayweather’s shoulders and ride him like a dray horse,” Thompson screamed on the phone later in my dream. He and Griffin were standing on Venice Beach, trying to get some color into her cheeks. “She’s paler than me,” Thompson said, “and I’m dead! — or that’s what Rolling Stone said, but who believes those bastards anymore!”

Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions, I keep my visions to myself, it’s only me who wants to wrap around your dreams and, have you any dreams you’d like to sell?”

I guess I don’t have any dreams worth selling. None of them are crazier or more libelous than what’s going on in the news. Mayweather and McGregor will fight, Trump will no doubt cut up the greens with his golf cart, and who knows if Comey will ever appear before a Senate hearing again. He can’t justify dragging his ass around the carpet with no tapes. All he can do is sniffle until Mueller joins him in the unemployment line.

I hope they don’t appear in my dreams again. It’s just too creepy. Especially four to six times a night. I’ll have to take pills or nitrous oxide — whatever Thompson is carrying around when he shows up next.

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson

Robert Cormack is a freelance copywriter, novelist and blogger. His first novel “You Can Lead a Horse to Water (But You Can’t Make It Scuba Dive)” is available online and at most major bookstores. Check out Yucca Publishing or Skyhorse Press for more details.

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Robert Cormack

6 years ago #11

They'll all run naked eventually @VPCity, just as the White House lawn needs water, the fast-and-loose, the winged beasts and the sophists all need to cool off. We've seen this kind of thing before when the walls fell and Nero fiddled badly.

Robert Cormack

6 years ago #10

Thanks, @Chris, I would have used Crosby but Stevie caught my attention#13

Jim Murray

6 years ago #9

I thing you are watching too much news, my friend. Good post though. I find your weirdness oddly appealing. But then we are of the same tribe.

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #8

Sad right, when the dream does not sound crazier then the reality. Fleetwood Mac is appropriate because their music was co-opted by Bill Clinton as the chief theme of his first Presidential victory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3JA1nWPFqM So if Fleetwood Mac could contribute on song for the Clinton Presidency they should release a parody single right now "We've Stopped Thinking about Tomorrow". Yet this dream was not just about politics and the actual nightmare that is unfolding in America right now, it was also touched the realm of Guy Debord because McGregor vs. Mayweather is definitely another piece of the Spectacle. If Hunter Thompson lived in this time he would have shot himself much earlier, not even Thompson would be impressed with a Gonzo President. Stevie Nicks would have been back for an encore had Hilary Clinton won especially since she did get off the fence and predicted in September 2016 that Hilary would win by a landslide http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/stevie-nicks-hillary-clinton-landslide/index.html - which only goes to show that even Fleetwood Mac participated once in a political dream. It was never the case that Hilary would ever run naked on the White House Lawn, for she got a much worse nightmare come true than that, she had her political soul ripped out of on that election night - the dream was so real she built a monument to celebrate in and on that night, all the dreamers in that DNC monument awoke with real tears rolling down their face http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/backstage-at-hillary-clintons-election-night-party-ive-never-seen-a-more-defeated-group-people-
Wow--in today's day and age, it's hard to tell what's a dream or not. There's so much craziness going on, you just might be predicting a future.

Robert Cormack

6 years ago #6

#6
So you know how badly I need that nitrous oxide, @Jordan Sands.

Robert Cormack

6 years ago #5

You should have added lyrics, Brian McKenzie, like "Sonny, yesterday my life was filled with rain."#5

Robert Cormack

6 years ago #4

#2
Glad you enjoyed, Paul Walters. I'd probably have more if I got more sleep.

Robert Cormack

6 years ago #3

Ladybird was a sprinkler fanatic, @Martin Wright. History repeats itself (in my dreams, anyway)#1

Paul Walters

6 years ago #2

Robert Cormack Its remembering them that is the trick!! You seem to do it so well ,. Thanks for a great Friday read

Martin Wright

6 years ago #1

You got me with the sprinkler on the white house lawn .. Could have ended up a nightmarr though, Ladybird Johnspn, Barbara Bush and Eleamor Roosevelt showing what they were wearing needed ironing.

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