XIII. SOMNAMBULA

 

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Geryon awoke too fast and felt his box contract.

 
 
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Hot pressure morning. Houseful of tumbling humans and their languages.

 

Where am I?

 

Voices from somewhere. He made his way thickly downstairs

 

and through the house

 

to the back porch, huge and shadowy as a stage facing onto brilliant day.

 

Geryon squinted.

 

Grass swam towards him and away. Joyous small companies of insects

 

with double-decker wings

 

like fighter planes were diving about in the hot white wind. The light

 

unbalanced him,

 

he sat down quickly on the top step. Saw Herakles stretched on the grass

 

making sleepy talk.

 

My world is very slow right now, Herakles was saying. His grandmother

 

sat at the picnic table

 

eating toast and discussing death. She told of her brother who was conscious

 

to the end but could not speak.

 

His eyes watched the tubes they were putting in and pulling out of him so

 

they explained each one.

 

Now we are inserting sap of the queen of the night you will feel a pinch

 

then a black flow, said Herakles

 

in his sleepy voice that no one was listening to. A big red butterfly

 

went past riding on a little black one.

 

How nice, said Geryon, he’s helping him. Herakles opened one eye and looked.

 

He’s fucking him.

 

Herakles! said his grandmother. He closed his eyes.

 

My heart aches when I am bad.

 

Then he looked at Geryon and smiled. Can I show you our volcano?

 
 
The Autobiography of Red
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