i awoke nauseated

i had a dream
in which a pair of
my favorite writers
had gone quite unmad...

there was nietzsche
waxing an automobile

while baudelaire purchased
a dining room set

i would've understood
the symbolism if either were
sweeping w/a broom

or perhaps scooping
shit from the litter box

but these two acts
these blatant visions
of normalcy disturbed
more than any nightmare
of an apocalypse