got a thing to do ?

 

Dear Diary:

 

 

I had a dream but not while I was asleep.   I was sitting in the sun (with my big black hat on, of course) and I was buzzing along with my eyes half closed and this scene started running in my head.

 

“Well everywhere I go, ain’t got a thing to do
(I got a thing for you?)”

 

I had a reverie that I was walking out into the water with Father Durk. Feeling kind of uneasy about the water and what may be below the surface, like minnows that kiss my legs or slimy leeches and other gross water foul.

 

“Now little baby, now let me tell you what I’m goin’ to do
Now little baby, now let me tell you what I’m goin’ to do”

 

 

 

Above the surface, the sun is shining and few clouds line the sky. Falcons are flying over my head. There are no words spoken by Father until he begins the Baptism. Feeling weirded out because he and I both know there is only one Holy baptism, right?

 

 

“Oh, I need you baby
Got no time to-
I’ll do for you, I’m gonna do for you
If you do for me, I’m gonna do for you”

 

He says the same words I’ve heard many times but doesn’t ask me to denounce Satan. Once he finishes his words he dunks me under the surface of the water. I am waiting for something big; a most brilliant light to shine or something extraordinary to happen but nothing does.

 

 

“Well everywhere I go, ain’t got a thing to do
(I got a thing for you?)”

 

 

I stand up after the plunge and much to my shock and horror and without me being cognizant of its happening my legs fuse together into a fish tail.  Father Durk seemed impressed with his handwork.  Rising like sharks fins my friends break the surface of the water one by one.

 

 

So, what do you make of that?

 

 

Sin