Losing - Gaining? - My Religion
On nights like this last one when I’m lying in bed like a steamed clam unable to sleep, I take a hot bath which sounds crazy I know but it really does push the old ‘reset’ button. After about 20 minutes my muscles all relax and when I get out,I barely dry off. Then I wrap a towel around myself and just sit there reading old Newsweeks while my body cools and sometimes, sometimes with this thermal hot-and-cold combo, I enter an altered state of consciousness which is a good thing right, like that fine day comin’ when people can have all the medical marijuana they need.In this altered state I see things as I lie there, turning myself into Terry Fricassee. The bathroom tiles, for example, start to look like as Sesame Street Segment featuring the letter ‘S’, and last night... Well last night the folds of my cast-off camisole there on the bathmat began looking like an orangutan face. A lot like an orangutan face. So very much like an orangutan face that I went downstairs and got my camera.Of course it was 3am by this time and I was so sleepy and dopey I stupidly kicked the garment when I came back in the room and spoiled the effect-Which is a shame. because it really did look like an ape face. Or the face of somebody anyway. And mighty l-o-o-o-o-o-ng lines of miracle-seekers get started over less. You put a sleepless guy out on a barren cliff in the desert and next thing you know, boom! A new religion.So what do you see here, hmmm? (Dr. Rorschach called! He says Careful what you answer :-)