Apparently I need rescue by
Captain America or
Wonder Woman,
But they are
Super busy.
Instead I get Clam Man.
This is no job for
Steroid-jacked mollusks!
Or snapping, nipping
Seashells!
Clam Man is dejected
When I call for a do-over with
The Sandman.
qbit 
Waaa haha! Or is there some deeper existential meaning here?
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None, zero. Hahahha!
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Believe it or not, this was the actual dream I had last night.
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No way! Did Clam Man wear tights and have a mask?
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No, it was way *weirder* than that. Seemed to involve alluvial fossil beds of clams. I couldn’t get that into the 44 words and remain coherent.
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(Coherent is way over-rated.) Dreams are amazing things. The Psych part of my undergrad loves to dig around in such things because our dreams brains basically go literary on us with hyperbole & puns.
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Gotta stop eating shellfish and sleeping in fossil beds 😉 Loved it!
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Ahahahaha! Yes!
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Clam man… That’s what you get when you ask for mussels instead of muscles…
reminds me of that song by Diana Ross…
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Yes, ahahaha! In my dream, the whole Clam thing was completely under-powered. I had to reboot the dream more or less.
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Enter Clam Man – I wonder if Metallica would consider it.
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Fantastic! That’s a howl.
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I had this exact same thought!
I love this piece, Sir, but you’ve gotta work the actual word “dream” in there, somewhere. It’s as easy as calling it a “dream do-over” and finding a way to remove another word. 😉
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Oh man, I argued with myself and Clam Man about it, and thought I could slide by on the whole hinting-at-it thing. Oh well. Yes, you are correct.
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Sheesh! You should know better…!
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I like to write TO the prompt rather than use it literally. So often a prompt is something like “longing” or “happiness” or “loneliness”. That’s too blatant for poetry. We write ABOUT those things, but we shouldn’t have to use the actual word. In fact, the trick is to make the reader feel those things without ever using the actual word. You went inside the dream and worked your way out. Very cool approach!
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That was my thinking too!
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Ha ha ha. This is hilarious.
I love that song … “Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream. Make him the cutest that I’ve ever seen.”
Tell me you’ve seen the movie Cry Baby. (So dang sexy.)
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Goodness, that was a long time ago!! But yes.
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It looks like Clam Man needs a Sandman.
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Or will he make a pearl if he gets sand in his eye?
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Love it.
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He-he – and a real dream too!
I love my dreams, preferring their madness to TV! Hate it when I wake when experiencing a really wonderful dream, and try as a might, I can never return to it.
Anna :o]
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Ahahaha. Yes. Me too.
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Love the poem, don’t think I’d care much for the calm man. I’d hate for my meals to visit me at night. Sometimes they do, heartburn, 😧
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Mister Clam Man, send me some bream…!
This deserves a medal: Order of the Chowder.
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Wahaha!
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Yeppers. I totally agree with De. You gotta include the “word” in your poem. But Clam Man, I think my cat would have liked him! Dreams just be odd.
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I didn’t see “dream” anywhere in your poem, but I certainly reaped a chuckle!
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This is funny…. Good for you to remember your dreams. I forget mine when I wake up.
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I love Clam Man!
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Hahaha! Thanks!
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What a fun and symbolic dream! :o)
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How funny and clever! I like the line “super busy.” It goes well with “super” heroes.
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A nice read.
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I can see it now: Clam Man and his side kick Sand Man saving the world from . . . . plastic water bottles on beaches.
Reminds me of Mr. Canoe Head (long story; obscure reference)
Enjoyed!
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Hahaha! Great, thanks!
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Oh lord! Got a wonderful laugh out of this one. Thanks for the gift of laughter. ❤ Sure you weren't watching Spongebob Squarepants before you went to bed. Ha ha!
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Hahaha!
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Ha! This made me smile!
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hahahaha!!! The super hero references are outstanding. 🙂 You got me to smile. 🙂
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there was me thinking you were on a roll or a high from something imbibed or despite the sandman had dispensed with sleep in order to bulk write poetry – these glitches are one way to get your poems seen by new eyes. And old eyes like mine to do some catching up
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LOL! Thanks. Super irritating. Sorry to spam folks with old posts. Glitch in the Matrix and such. But yes, created a flurry of people reading my poems, even if for the most part I wouldn’t have picked a lot of these!
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