Rooftop of Rêveur Montréal (The Rooftop)

Have you been to the rooftop where the men walk backwards and the women have cut out their stomachs because pregnancy is unwanted, where the sky hangs so low you can poke rain clouds, popping them like balloons making all of that water release. It is at the Rêveur Montréal. Walk to the front swinging doors, golden and brown, where a tamed werewolf named Sigmond will be waiting, dressed elegantly in a red and black tuxedo on. He will say, “Hello Monsieur. Welcome to the other world. Take the first right into the ‘Rêveur Montréal’ and you will find your answer.” With the first right you will arrive at the smoking elevator doors. Don’t be intimated though, that smoke is just the dragon’s breath, waiting for you inside the elevator. I have told him you want to see the other world. The doors will open and the dragon will ask to see your new burn initiation for the other world. Show him the burn on your forearm. Ask to go to level 3000. The speed of the elevator might seem a bit gravity defying but just bare with it. When you get to level 3000, walk out of the elevator to your right. Follow the teal carpet until you get to the exit door. Walk through it and you will come to another hallway. It gets smaller and smaller until eventually you are on your knees. You come to a small black hole in the wall so climb through it. On the other side you will find a women wrapped in yellow cloth, sitting at a table with a dim light on above the table. He face will be shadowed and one eye will shine bright. She’ll say, “Welcome to floor three thousand and a half.” Tell her I sent you and show her the burn on your forearm. She’ll say, “Sit I have something for you to drink.” You drink the potion and then you can feel your body form begin to change. Dieu never warned me that I’d become a slug. It is more like a new beginning. It was excruciating pain. No pain I would deal with if I had been warned. After you drink the potion, you’ll be part of the other world. Make your way to the morphing door, changing colors from orange to pink, black to aqua, orange to red. Nudge the door.  Outside you will see animals in people form. There are women who no longer wanted babies so they removed their stomachs, men who’s legs and where there head should be, where people are now spiders. There is a clear dome over this rooftop and rooftop takes up most of the sky but no one knows that because the other world is so high up, no one makes it there. The other world will be a place where you can essentially do anything you want and no one will harm you. Sometime in the future you will soon forget about opinions and worries. All of those things you worried about in the modern world seem to go away. You can rest peacefully on the padded rooftop watching the clouds morph and litter its insides on the modern world.

But this is not what I wanted. I expected a beautiful world. 

The modern world can tear you to shreds making you ungrateful for your body. The other world brings you the curses that you brought upon yourself. You wanted another world so here it is. A world of your biggest fears, hates, dissatisfactions. You say you want something but it is always something else. You expect and want an upgrade. It is always what could be better, never what it is. The only way to make it back to the modern world is to sell your soul on the ‘Marché de L'âme’ where souls are sold and used on the market of death. The better use you make of your soul, the more your value goes up. The worse you make of yourself, he value of your soul goes down. Like Berkeley said from the modern world "To be is to be perceived." The other world is just your so called Enfer. So rethink the steps of your wishes. The world’s most beautiful people are now monsters on this rooftop because of their second chance in the modern world. Their souls failed on the ‘Marché de L'âme’ and ended up back here living on the 3000th floor. This is solitude. The punishment of the things you were never grateful for.