Your hand is palm-down on the table. My hand. My hand is palm-down on the table. On my forearm, near the elbow, a maggot is sticking out of my skin. I grasp it gently with my other hand and pull it out.
It doesn't resist. It doesn't hang on, that is. If I release the pressure, it starts sliding back in, though.
Pulling a maggot out of my arm is a good feeling. The idea that there is a maggot in your arm might be disturbing, but here I am pulling one out of my arm, which is a good thing. Completely positive.
The more I pull out, the bigger the maggot turns out to be. It's not so much that it is growing, really; more like it was a lot bigger all along than I thought it was.
It's a maggot as big as a ferret. Sort of pale blonde-white. Like two kilos of sentient fat. A guy from work who turns out to know a lot about maggots helps me pull it out. The more we pull out, the better I feel about it.
Nothing like getting rid of a big maggot.
Posted at August 25, 2005 08:29 AMIt's good thing I don't eat anything at breakfast.
This was just about the worst image you could have conjured up early in the morning.
brrrrrrr
Posted by: TH at August 25, 2005 09:24 AMIt was actually a great dream. I jumped out of bed feeling great and had coffee, sour-cherry yogurt, an apple with peanut butter on it and half a grapefruit for breakfast. All the while with the dream still vivid in my mind.
Writhing and moist, so to speak.
OK, you're officially weirder than me ;)
Posted by: TH at August 25, 2005 01:05 PMThat does sound pretty awesome. So now what are you going to do with all this ferret-sized-maggot-freedom? Something good, I'm sure.
I love that it was ferret sized, and not, say, chihuahua or trout or baguette sized.
Posted by: Jessica at August 25, 2005 02:54 PMJust for you:
(and be glad it's not a link to the picture of the bot fly)
Posted by: Brian at August 26, 2005 02:53 AMhow utterly adorable.
congratulations, ma'am--it's a maggot!
men and their grotesque birthing dreams. xox
Posted by: jilbur at August 26, 2005 07:55 AMYou weren't reading that David Sedaris piece about African worms, on vacation, maybe?
Posted by: R J Keefe at August 26, 2005 02:22 PMi told you so. now the rest of it will come.
Posted by: anne at August 26, 2005 05:09 PM