"I Think, Therefore I Ant."
The
Monsters That Tucked Me In
I was always a nervous kid and
never very good with bedtime
Getting the lights turned out was bad
but even worse, was…
The Monsters That Tucked Me In
They
were blood relatives
and
friends of the family…
…When
they were sober
my parents looked something like this…
After a few,
in my eyes, they looked more like this…
MY
aunt (Millie) and uncle (Nick)
scared the living hell out of me…
Word was that Millie
had lured sluggish Nick into her web
…I believed it
ABOVE:
My babysitter, (left)
me, (centre) her fat boyfriend (right)
food from our fridge (his hands and mouth)
an unidentified cockroach (far right wall)
My Uncle Roger was
apparently a hilarious guy
he’d move his neck so fast
that I thought he had three heads
He’d laugh and wish me goodnight
then tell me there was a family
of child-eating rats living under my bed
The
drawing below is from when my grandfather
told me that if I waited until midnight
then looked in my toy box
I’d get a big surprise
So I did
and out he sprung
laughing maniacally…
…I
never opened that toy box again.
Aunt
Tilda's goodnight kiss
And then there were the others
who’d whisper in my ear
that the world was a big place
which
would crush my little dreams
Eventually falling
asleep became a real problem
The
source of my troubles
was easy enough to identify
But
it didn’t stop the anxiety…
My
fear of the monsters that tucked me in
got so bad that I started to worry
that maybe, finally, one night
ALL of them
would tuck me in at the same time!
I stopped sleeping all together…
It
didn’t take long for me to begin
experiencing waking dreams
In one of them
I saw myself in the future
Apparently, I’d gone
into the arts…
My
parents were now concerned
and took me to a doctor who prescribed
”alternatives in the world of pharmaceuticals”
Sleep
finally came…
And
when I grew up I didn’t kill myself
But instead became a mercenary
To
this very day
I still have problems sleeping
But I suspect that it’s more work related…
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