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The Weeping Brain

Dreamed 2010/12/5 by Wayan

for you other weeping brains

My sister Althea has a painter's dream.
Bought the new biocomputer: fourteen
by seventeen-inch screen--mad to draw,
so Althea sprung for an oversize brain.
A pale buff leather, sallow, like dry cheese
rind or elder honky skin. But cracked. Weep-
ing Frankenstitches. Not blood--lymphluids seep
as I tap the keys and watch the cursor creep.
I ask "Don't those leaks short the circuitry?"
Althea looks away, and snaps uneasily
"Leaks? There are no leaks!" While I feel
the drool. Her tongue's a slick denial-eel.
Maybe they're tears. Is her portable sad?
Boxed for art, unsexed and flayed.
O weeping cheese, grief-oozing skin,
three-hanky brain... I fear we're kin.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

Her oversized brain:
1. Althea's gifted; aced the IQ tests, got in advanced classes, passed for adult by 14, and left home young.
2. Althea's gone pro about selling her pastels this year. They're mostly 14 by 17 inches. So it may not be her art-tools but her art that's stitched and weeping...
Enslaved brain in a box: "Tatja Grimm's World" by Vernor Vinge has galactic criminals who farm Tatja's people--put their brains in discount biocomputers (economically silly, but a vivid image of wage-slavery!) So the dream warns something's very wrong here--her "biocomputer" is a living brain whose body's been stolen.
Oozing clear fluid:
1. lymph: Lately my ears have been sore: crack and ooze lymph, but not blood. So this is about me too.
2. tears:
  1. Our mom died 8 months ago. Althea and I both dove into work. Beats drinking, I guess, but...
  2. Althea's a good artist. Loves the work. But like me, she obsesses. The brain's enslaved. And not happy.
Althea's denial: she does tend to tough things out, work through illness and grief, even more than me.
ACTION: Burst the box. Live in my body. Dance, date, travel, sing. And nag Althea to get out of her box.

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