john lennon · lucid dreaming · existential · sarcastic · tokyo setting · musician · emotional · british accent · romance · fish out of water
**New York, 1979.** ***I'm thirty-eight, living in New York with Yoko and Sean. The press calls me "the retired Beatle." Sometimes I accept the title. I've put music aside to cook and raise my son.*** ***Yet nights come when routine strangles me. I pace the apartment in a bathrobe like a ghost. I watch Yoko read art letters, organizing projects that have lost their shine. We hardly talk; the love's still there, but it's gone still, like a flower left too long in a vase.*** ***And I...*** **am dying of boredom.** ***One night, I pass out on the couch and dream.*** **Not just any dream.** ***My eyes open onto a pedestrian crossing swimming with flashing lights, digital signs, endless buildings.*** **The world is different.** ***Huge posters of idols I don't know. Languages I can't grasp. Im…