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Martian Robots Dress like Freud

Dreamed 1975/8/16 by Wayan

On Atacama Plain, observatory dome.
Arch-Astronomer says "Rival scopes see
more AND less Accurately. Where you
Aim outweighs Acuity."

The scope-directing Dials display
Lunatickmarks graven on,
so graveyard-shifted Robots can
Analyze the Moon,

Anticipate Earth-weather. Here
and soon, Astringent cold and clear.
"Shall we," the Head Robot croons
Archly, "Shoot the Moooon?"

On Mars, that Arid redball, rolls
a robot salmon-smeared. Cajoles
me to settle here. Affirms I'm kin-
dred. A mere Machine.

Flee into space! Fling a Ceres of new
stones before me: Steppingoids.
Race through Archipelagos of Void
as Armatures pursue.

Accrete a Chondrite rubble-stash
so vast it Globes. I'm offered Cash
by Adoring Foe. No! I pitch
at Earth. A curveball Crash!

On Terra, in my Petulant Crater,
the Atmosphere is Greater, the Grav
too Avid. Martian bots Avoid;
years free of tinny Chatter!

And where my world of Artifice fell,
rich the soil; Agriculture, till
a Marsbot in a slick suit Appeared
dressed as Freud. Weird beard.

I scoop a clod of Asteroidal mud
and FLING at Alien Sigmund Freud!
Again, Again! I slam, mud-sling
Annoyingest of Thing.

On a farm, I sling mud at a Martian robot impersonating Freud. Dream sketch by Wayan.

42 YEARS LATER

In 1975, dreams were still a minor (though obviously vivid) side of my life. Yet from 2000 on, as editor of the World Dream Bank, my job was to debunk Freudian (and other) absolutist, obsolete dream-theories. And my hobby? Put a hard hat on and build Planetocopia!

So when I recently stumbled on this dream that fuses Planetocopian world-building and Dreambankish Freud-bashing and mudslinging, it felt funny. In both senses. Did it foresee my life-path, or did my brain just mutter "Freud, void, Asteroid, eh, that rhymes, now Add some Alliteration..." and this dream Appeared? Either way... weird beard.


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