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Who are The Juices of Midnight?

creative Strategy #988: Ask the right questions

Patrick O'Leary
Sep 10, 2022
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Report from The Occupied Territory

We remain on the periphery of drama

though clueless & plotless we roam

driven by the bewildering compulsions

and allegiances — give the people in our dreams

so much trust, so much guilless fellowship

Yet we retain so very little from our missions

It hardly seems worth the danger.

We walk among them

Follow their inane instructions

Adopt their bizarre customs

& what do we get for our troubles?

Bupkiss. Incoherence. Mazes.

Baffling riots of plot

& no real intelligence

that can survive the journey into waking

Can we just

please stop

& talk sensibly for a moment?

No

That’s asking too much of our dream hosts

& every night we are forced to don our faces

Make that difficult journey back

Over the steep mountain

following the moonlit path

wedging between the cracks

in the craggy cliffs wyhtyvyr

to ask again our brave & useless questions

as if we could cross-examine

the maker of Dreams himself

The Originator

or as I have come to know him

Dark Daddy in the Night Sky

the bastard who left us This

Yet we go on. We must.

We must scribble our illegible notes

listen to their smug evasions

& wriggling like a worm upon a hook

we plumb the mysteries of the night

the scrambled codes of dream fate

that seem so obvious to them

Hoping somehow someday

we might finally grasp

Why is that duck dancing?

Where does death go?

And For God’s Sake

Who are the juices of midnight?

—Patrick O’Leary

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William Shunn
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Sep 12, 2022

Love it.

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