Manholes

It is daytime, but the sky is overcast. Everything is gray, even my skin. A man is trapped beneath a layer of grates under a manhole. His eyes are sewn shut. His stomach and bladder have been surgically removed. He doesn't say anything, but somehow I know it.

He is starving to death. Time elapses. There is food down there but he cannot eat it. I try to get him out, but I have no way through the grates. No matter how hard I try to get him out, I cannot reach him. All I hear is a mute whine before I realize I have failed.

- My dream, December 23, 2006