Mannish Boy


I had a great dream last night. I went to this little shack in Riverside that was in the old part of town. 



Someone I knew lived there but was away so I stepped in. 

Then people started arriving. First it was a little boy and I was going to leave but the mother said he came here specially to be with me so I stayed with him and he sat right next to me and we drew pictures and looked out the windows, I felt intensely happy. I said this shack is really small but it has great views. Then the shack started moving and rolling down the hill till it came to rest at the seashore.

There was a convention at the house for feminists. They were planning an action and all the men were being herded into the back rooms. I was going over the book that was being published to go with the action with the little boy but then I had to stop because even a little boy couldn't be let into the plans. 

I felt very proud that the women were getting together celebrating the progress they had made and planning an action to bring more progress but I was very sad that the men were not allowed to participate.

I went to the back of the house and found a bar where all the men were hanging out waiting for this action. I was amused and started trying to sing Mannish Boy to the little boy at my table but my voice was too high and broken.

Then from behind us a grizzled old man started singing Mannish Boy with all the growl and swagger that song so often gets. He was slumped in his seat, unshaven, out of tune and magnificent. 

I went to the back yard and all these children were running into the next door neighbors yard. Then adult women rounded them up and I thought of a solution to keep the kids in. I wrapped a bare wire around the fence and plugged it in so now if you touched it you'd get a big shock but it wouldn't hurt a wood fence.

Some woman came back and scolded me for my stupidity. The children might be hurt. So I had to VERY carefully break the circuit and remove the wire. Then to make up she showed me the Rabbits and Hamsters in the shed out back. 


There were so many all nestled in and around and under a manger in the shed. She opened the back wall of the shed behind the manger and let the hamsters and rabbits out.  They fled the shed and as they moved they became a flood of water.

There were people sitting on green hillsides all around this swimming pool and the water ran over through and past them. I wondered if they minded but apparently they were from the swampy part of the Ukraine and didn't mind. 

The women had built scaffolding on three sides of the pool. The water somehow rushed down the hill and then was pumped up to the top of the scaffolding some three stories above and slowly, as the sunset and the stars came out. The water began to fall from the top of each scaffolding in a clear curtain into the pool below. 

The effect was mesmerizing and we all sat and watched the stars and water through the night.

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