Ninety Percent Sure (Dreams 07/06/06 Two)
Janet Kuypers, 07/06/06
it was the strangest thing:
you know how I have old computers
in my bedroom downstairs?
I keep them there
because they still run enough
that I can have images display
on their screens
when I have people over
well anyways,
I remembered being in the bedroom downstairs
checking my email
(and trust me,
these computers downstairs
don’t have the software
and don’t have web access,
so I don’t know where
this idea came from)
but I was checking my email
on my computer downstairs
and I got an email
from a friend living across the country
that I would visit
when I travel in a month
but this email sent to me
was in web format
and the type was larger
and it looked almost like
a handwriting font was used
in his short email message
the email said
something to the effect of
(in a large handwriting typeface)
“well, maybe you should know by now
that I’m like ninety percent sure
that I’m gay”
and that’s all it said
so I was trying to look
at the long list
of previous replied-to messages
at the bottom of his email
to see if there was anything
written about this before
and there was nothing
and I was thinking, wait,
this guy is married
with children
and he’s telling me
he’s ninety percent sure
he’s gay?
I didn’t know if this was a joke or not
I mean,
how are you ninety percent sure?
so I yelled for my husband
“hey, cam you come in here,
there’s an email I want you to read”
but I can’t remember
is he came in
to read the email
but that’s okay
that email doesn’t exist
and I can’t even use
the computers downstairs anyway
