In the dream / I’m all hallways / windows where the doors should be / behind distorted glass / memories / all my shit / got miscoded / strobe light nervous system / blinking Christmas light response / lighthouse with a laser for an eye / someone came in / turned all the lights on / left them on for 20 years / the light bill came due / like an apocalypse / She was with me / in the last hallway / the one with the door / I thought I knew then what was in there / that was only th