Thursday, January 18, 2018

Dream Interpretation

I keep dreaming of dead rabbits;
since my twenties, every once in a while.
The rabbits are sometimes alive, or in distress
but usually they're dying or dead.
I don't dream of the rabbits I had as pets
when I was a child and would forget
their vulnerable bodies
alone for days in a cage.
I just did not think
about them as living
when i was off being
with other objects and things.
The way a baby doesn't realize his mother still exists
when she's out of the room.
Last night it was a black rabbit, looking
a lot like the last one I had, but different,
the same but different in the way
dreams do that.
This time as an adult, I tried
again to have rabbits, but
again the failure to pay attention
to care as much as I thought I would.
I looked up the symbolism
Googled, "rabbit dream"
and the screen showed me words like
"lucky" "magical" "fertility" "sex drive" "prosperity"
but there were no words to tell me
what all the dead rabbits mean.
I guess that's obvious.
I guess I have no choice but to
keep burying them.

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