It was 1 or 2 in the morning but it wasn't very dark. I was walking home with two people. I think I just met them in some club and they invited me to go with them. I didn't know them and I didn't know where we were going. But I thought, What the hell, I've nothing better to do anyway. And then we were in a dimly lit locker room/bathroom. There were two, maybe three rows of shower stalls with dark orange doors. One of the people I was walking with was in a corner stall; all the other stalls were empty. I was waiting for him to finish so I could shower too but he just stood there, staring at the wall with a towel wrapped around his waist, so I left him and went to the restaurant. The locker room/bathroom was at the back this restaurant, near the kitchen. The restaurant was also a club. It was dark enough and there was a dj but no one was dancing. It was a Normal club. It wasn't crowded; it was rather empty in fact. There were scattered groups of people sitting in chairs around small tables, talking. Then a good song came on and I started dancing but I was awkward and clumsy. There wasn't a proper dancefloor, just the space between the tables. I was wearing a black vest and a white shirt, maybe a poet's shirt, and I looked and felt awful. Another person also started dancing in his own corner. Then
in the middle of the song they abruptly turned the lights on halfway up
to look for something that an employee's child had lost on the floor--
and we stopped dancing. Then the lights dimmed and we resumed dancing...
but then they came back on again, this time all the way up, and the music
completely stopped. People were squinting in the light, embarrassed to
have to look at one another in such bright light. We tried to keep our
eyes on the floor.
I left via a side door. People passed me by in their cars as I walked out of the parking lot. I
was walking up a curving road. It wasn't in the country but everything
looked green and healthy. I happened to look to my left and saw that it
was a cemetery. I could see tombstones, crosses and statues, all gray and
weathered and very pretty against the green of the grass. Then I heard
children's voices. They were singing the chorus of a song that could've
been from a musical. I thought that maybe there was a funeral.
I
continued crossing the street to wait at the bus stop with other people.
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