[1361] in Depressing_Thoughts
Dream of the Blue Turtle
jcbourne@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jcbourne@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 9 10:55:59 1990
I had a dream last night. It gave me quite a fright. I was walking along a
beach, with the ocean just out of reach, when a turtle came up to me and
said that he needed me. So I said to him, "Do you always follow whims?"
And he said to me, "I just want to be free." I thought about that for a while
and then I gave him my smile. He tried to wear it well, but my smile soon
fell. I tried to think some more, yet soon my head became sore. Wanting to
say something true, I said, "I am sorry you are blue." And said he, staring
at the ocean, "What we need is a good love potion." While I was wondering
about that, the blue turtle became a cat. When I tried to pet him, to my
dismay, the blue turtle, as the cat, ran away. I followed the turtle for
several hours. When I finally found him, he gave me flowers. The blue turtle
said to me, with a grin, "It is your heart I hope to win." Said I, sensing
the dream's end, "It is sad, but we can only be friends."
