Velvet Rendezvous
By ice rivers
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The surrealistic rendering of dreams does resemble the realistic rendering of hallucinations.
Hallucinations are dreams that take place when we are awake and become substituted for reality. Of course, Werner Von Braun wouldn't be shooting at Kennedy any more than the ghost of Richard Nixon would come back to life and attempt to strangle Gerald Ford. In real life, Kennedy admired and liked Von Braun. If it weren't for Von Braun, Kennedy would not have been elected president and if he weren't elected president, he wouldn't have been assasinated and Lee Oswald could have finished his sandwich in obscure, insane peace. And Disney Land might not have gotten off the ground but that's another story for another rendering about the value of dreams in the hands of someone like Walt Disney.
Von Braun, the Disney teevee star before Fess Parker, was an essential player in the space race/cold war battle between communism and capitalism. Capitalism got to the moon first (which at the time, to some if not many, meant that democracy could win a nuclear doomsday exchange because capitalism had the magic to send some wizards to the moon and start breeding all over again) and Von Braun was one of the main geniuses behind that effort along with leading the partial de-hickification of Huntsville, Alabama along the way.
Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon while Collins circled waiting to rendezvous. Has any human ever been as lonely as Collins must have been? How did Mike separate reality from dream from hallucination? The whole world watched. Naturally, some of that cosmic debris would become remnants of dreams for generations to come as our dreams often reflect the hopes and fears and triumphs of our ancestors as well as foreshadow the rhymes/resistance of the future mashed together like hallucinations except that we, like Vn Winkel, sleep through them.
Only occasionally do we rendezvous.
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