the three weeks I had chlamydia;

dream on the bus


I dreamed that I was in pain. It felt like an extreme kind of sore throat. I look in the mirror in the bathroom upstairs. Coal black thorns grow out of my neck. They form geometrical figures and become bigger and bigger, they start to collide because they grow too big. I go downstairs. My sister appears to be annoyed, “Luka you are wearing my scarf again”, she says. She starts pulling the thorns, I tell her to stop but she keeps pulling. One thorn breaks off and white chunks and mucus fall out of my neck. First we think it’s teeth, I lick my mouth to make sure my teeth are still there. It turns out to be cornflakes.