H
e a r t S o n s & H e a r t D a u g h t e r s of A l l e n G i n s
b e r g
N
a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 4 : A r c h i
v e s E d i t i o n
MARC OLMSTED
Blood Dripping Guru
Dream:
I am on a gurney
unable to
move, maybe strapped
down in some hospital –
there are others around
me - a nurse
comes up - dressed
more like a career
woman - and slips
a Tibetan offering
scarf - a kata –
over my face
and prepares an
injection – under
my chin I think -
"We're draining
your blood" the
shot some sort
of knock-out or
anesthetic to
keep me from struggling
- I get it, it's a
vampire scheme -
all these bodies to
be milked - "Who's
getting my blood?"
"Your teacher," she
says - No shit,
I think, what
a dupe I've been!
as they wheel me away
(Author note: In Tantric symbolism, the wrathful wisdom being drinks
the hot blood of ego - so this dream can be seen as auspicious, if paranoid.)
[Originally published in NHS 1998,
http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs98/olmsted.html.]