burglary (dream)

In a flat on my own. Some sort of student accommodation. unlocked door leads out to tenement passage. must be 3rd floor. unused, abandoned, even dangerous. ending in a large opening overlooking empty space and vista of grey houses. I take the old staircase upwards leading to another landing. several doors, must be the rooms of people, occupied. I enter one room. A bedroom, belonging to a student. very seedy.

2 hrs. Image: Hollow closemouth. A gap to see through to the depths. illicit. where excitement. burglary. magazines & newspapers, the theft thereof. recurring.

The following: music magazines, Q's, a pile thereof. face down. Cyndi Lauper looking like Pink. Advert on back: Black. BRMC. old. Old fanzine-style. "Post-Holocaust". Publication featuring photos of Nazi atrocities. many Victorian-style engravings. of eyes and mouths. features a poem scrawled on wall of death chamber: (i scan it)

o traveller, turn not aside

the brain is down here somewhere

...... (goes on for several more lines)

...... Death. Shakespeare.

Obviously the work of a madman. A bag of what I think is dirty washing. The cheapest British porn, say Escort, full of readers wives.

themes: dilapidated, neglected student accommodation. the neglected city. shared accom. communal apartments. urban neglect. the urban dispossessed. haunted bathrooms. the sound of a toothbrush in yr hollow mouth, changing pitch as you widen or narrow your jaw. the tenement, squatting. the squalid student: as recluse, pop-culture overloaded, isolated bohemian. youngsters clinging to the old gods: hence, rock n roll. post-post-post-post-everything popculture. the sex industry. horror as entertainment. squalid student bedroom. one-room apartment. burglaries.

poems in dreams are impossible to reconstruct:

"O dear traveller, turn not aside

The brain is down here somewhere...

(goes on for several more lines)

........ fear. shame. death. Shakespeare."

(found scrawled on the wall of a concentration camp)