Roosting the Dead

It’s been about five hours now and I still can’t get the image of the rooster out of my head. I’m still weirded out by the image sequence…

The dream starts with me in Pa’s car. I spied my one of favourite spots in school and it was practically glowing in vibrant greens. I never recalled it being so beautiful. Of course I had to stop and take photos there. Pa turned into a carpark next to a HDB estate to park his car, though it was pretty far away from the glade. There was a wake in the void deck behind us. I was about to get out of the car when I realised that the blue truck on my left had left his back door slightly ajar.

There was a giant rooster jammed in between the door and the frame. It was really colourful, though its beauty was detracted by its right wing suspended awkwardly out of the door, and I sat in the car staring at it through the window, observing the broken state of it’s right wing (the middle portion was stripped of feathers) and trying to determine if it was real or merely a very life-like doll- because seriously, a rooster as large as that couldn’t possibly exist. I stard at it’s half-closed eyes for quite a while, forgetting about everything else. And then the eyes opened wide, and it started to animate it’s broken wing.

Of course, after that it just made getting out of my car even harder. But I had to get out anyway, and hoped not to get battered by the injured bird.

Once I got out, however, I was distracted by Ally approaching me on a bike. Just nice, I said, and plopped Super Fatty into her empty wire basket. I contemplated hitching a ride with her, but she didn’t have a passenger seat, and anyway I couldn’t leave Pa to walk there alone. We were leaving when I turned to my right to see the rooster; it was on the floor shuffling jerkily from the bottom of the truck to under Pa’s car. I remember thinking in a detached manner that it reminded me of a combination of those ASCII 2ch characters and Asian horror movies.

And then Mum woke me up by calling my phone. I never got to see the glade, dammit! >_<

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