Dreaming of the Oracle and Me

Last night I dreamed I stood face to face

with the Oracle of Delphi. I am of Greek

ancestry so that didn’t seem foreign to me.

We agreed to use English to communicate

for I was most comfortable with my native

tongue. Besides, it was my dream and I in-

sisted on having my way. Why should I listen

to you, anyway? I questioned as she gyrated

her arms in the thick hallucinogenic fog from

which she came. All the folks you’ve advised

throughout history are dead now making your

track record unreliable and questionable to me.

What do you see in the future which involves

me, I asked her? It’s a mystery to me how you

came this far in the first place, she responded.

I admitted to her, that enigma amazes me as

well. You wouldn’t be looking for an assistant

or a protege would you, I asked her? Poof! She

evaporated back into her cloud of smoke, and

three and a half millennia too late, I awoke.

Chris Hanch 7-21-19