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Dreams 02/05/06 (Lip Synch)

I don’t know what kind of show I was watching
it was like a mix between Solid Gold, or Soul Train, and Miss America
because people were competing for talent in some sort of contest

but I was watching this show, and it had to be on TV
but I wasn’t watching it though the TV screen
it was like I was there, like I was one of the cameras

and these two black women came up next to the stage
relatively short, had some weight on them
and they started talking to the people, explaining

laughing, that they always were at one of their mom’s places
and mom always bought this kind of soda
it wasn’t a brand name, and it had a ton of sugar in it

and they were thanking mom, I suppose, I don’t know why
they were talking about one of their mothers
and the cheap generic sugar-filled sodas she always had

but they ended up saying that they were going to lip sync
and dance to a number, I think the some was by LaToya Jackson

now I don’t know anything by LaToya Jackson
so I don’t even know what the song was
and I couldn’t tell you if this song was by her or not

and I was expecting a fast song, and I was expecting
they’d be dressed up, and working out a lot,
but they wore their tight jeans over their big legs

and sipper jackets over plain shirts, they were wearing normal clothes
and they didn’t even match each other
and the music started up and one of them started to move

and the music was for a slow song, it was like
they picked a slow song by LaToya Jackson to lip sync to
and remember, they weren’t singing, but these two girls

were dancing to this slow song by LaToya Jackson
and lip syncing

so the camera would come close to one of the women
when the voice started up to watch her lip expecting to LaToya,
and at one point there was a line in the song,

I think it said something to the effect of “to be together,”
or “we’ll be together,” or something
and when shey lip synced that line

the camera panned out to show the two of them, from head to toe,
now facing each other. palms touching and fingers interlocked,
each of them holding one leg bent at the knee, feet sticking out

and they each leaned in to each other, and turned their heads
to the camera, touching their faces cheek to cheek
to say this lip sync this line together, facing the camera

and I thought, this was the strangest thing I’d ever seen


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