sometimes i feel as though i am not a real writer i do not smoke i do not wake up early but i do not sleep all day either i find myself increasingly interested in dumb luck chance i've found two dimes in as many days does this mean i've found twenty lucky pennies i want you to participate you the reader you the probabilistic god of my dreams i've been having strange dreams lately i do not remember them but they leave impressions a bare foot a tunnel of hair from her face to mine a boat stranded in a living-room something warm something like the sun through my eyelids a hand with all its dead symbology my teeth have fallen out no you pulled them out with your hands threw them over your left shoulder like salt to wish away bad luck i have something to tell you bad luck follows like a dog it lets you get ahead for a few days a week a year you'll see it'll bite your sleeping face when you're not looking i've been dreaming about the future i know in my dream i am not a writer i live in a place with rain you are sunning yourself as you read this on a beach or maybe a desert let me move in with you i can cook or clean or take care of your dog while you're out i'll never have to write again i'll watch television do i want to become a writer tell me should i smoke i can sleep all day in your attic if you want become your god lose my own settle to the bottom of the bed like a boat in a river dream about nothing but furniture