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Kill the Vermin
(dreams from 5/16/12)

Janet Kuypers
5/18/12

Yesterday, a small bug was crawling along the floor
near the refrigerator, my husband usually sees and kills
these bugs, but with his back out he notices nothing now.
So this bug was crawling by the bottom of the fridge
and my cat Zach, who loves to eat bugs, just watched it
walking, so with no napkin to squash the bug I yelled,
“Zach, get the bug!” And he just sat there
and watched it walk. I looked over to my husband
who just sat there complacently looking at me.
So I turned to get a napkin to kill the vermin.
When I came back to the fridge, I saw that the bug
had just crawled under the fridge, and everyone just sat there
looking at me.

After that I got this vision in my head of being in my house
and seeing a bug on the floor. But the bug looked like a small
pink crab. Which is strange, because insects aren’t crustaceans,
and they’re certainly not pastel pink, so I yelled
for my husband to come kill the pastel pink crab bug,
and I looked down and there were now two of them,
skidding sideways slowly. So I started to panic,
now there are two of these Grateful Dead stoner
Dancing Bear pastel pink crabs on my floor,
and I don’t know how to shoo them or kill them.
After all this time my husband didn’t come to see this,
but waiting for him I eventually looked down again,
and there were now twenty of these pastel pink crabs
all slowly skittering along together in a sort of
Triangle pattern, and, not knowing what to do, I thought,
“Somebody else should really see this...” I mean,
my husband just found out that he’s not allergic to shellfish,
maybe he could tell me if these bugs on my floor in formation
are actually a crustacean delicacy to some cultures on this planet.
Because as I’m waiting there, this is what I’m reduced to
when there are bugs on the floor
and I’m left to my own devices.

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