Midsummer Night's Dream
Jul. 13th, 2001 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueI am sitting on the balcony of an Atlanta Holiday Inn, dressed in a pillowcase and singing along with the crickets. When I was a kid, I thought the cicadas were rattlesnakes that lived in trees. I was afraid to go out at night, lest they drop on me from above.
Now I know better, or at least I think I do. The only treesnakes I fear look like humans, the unsuspected Pettigrews who hide in a moral high ground, prepared to leap on the backs of the unwary. Am I safer now, or was it better to be the fearful child?
Drinking makes me sound like a high school poet, and so I shall stop at this.
Now I know better, or at least I think I do. The only treesnakes I fear look like humans, the unsuspected Pettigrews who hide in a moral high ground, prepared to leap on the backs of the unwary. Am I safer now, or was it better to be the fearful child?
Drinking makes me sound like a high school poet, and so I shall stop at this.
