The Eternal Pickle
I was a spiraling light through an inner-eye.
It felt that the top of my head, my skull
was opening out, blooming.
I thought: ‘this is it kiddo,
time for you to see if your beliefs will be revealed
in that new place for your eternal mind,
or just slip unnoticed into the no-name dark,
the endless forgetting of all things.’
When I spoke of this,
my wife blamed a bad pickle;
it had earlier given her diarrhea.
Funny thing,
Last night I dreamt of eating pickles.
A sign?
A squeezy sensation followed that thought.
I had to use the restroom
to think things over once more.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2022
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