My friend, a mid-sized god, wryly asks me "Who gave you this idea the gods were free? Olympians rule, yes, despite serpents in the grass. But we rule within the bounds of a Power ominous." And the old Power's fallen, whipped by a New; It interviews the pantheon, tells each: "You must obey My whispered say-so." Of course I too am in line--last & least--but I run away, deny. By going inner-tubing! Bring my Nametag of Office and the Magic Squirtgun. When the New lopes after me, last & least, I shpritz the Power Behind on its Behind then dive into a world with physics secular. I land in a flowered yard. It leaps for me, in wrath, but here under laws banal, It manifests as yappy Doglet. Ha. Tyrant kenneled! Frees the gods to do as they will, and they'll do good! The choice so long denied; for the Tyrants Behind the Gods, both Old and New, "Chose strangely" as my god-friend sighed, "and most ill." Last & least, I wake satisfied, and almost well. At last at peace.

NOTES

• When I dreamed this I was: 18, sickly, with recurring fevers, and reading both Lord Dunsany and Philip K. Dick--two writers full of gods, and powers behind them.
• My trick to free the gods: my health was too fragile to fight much in this world for change, but it seems I worked hard at night to fix other worlds' problems! Foolish? Maybe. But two good rules of dreamwork are revealed: 1) Don't take shit from gods--or powers behind gods. 2) Reducing things to banality sometimes works.
• Why'd the Power Behind the Gods become a mere pet? I think it's a dream-pun. If you sneak behind GOD, look behind the curtain like Toto, you find that from the back it's just... DOG.

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