Airlift ruinsA Poem by Avani Chhayamastery of flight suspended in weightlessness, aboard the steel-winged contraption flying through the curtained sheet delivering the scripted performance with clayed smiles and molded gestures beverage cart in hand, moistened toilette in another caked on rouge/ lathered on lipstick/ forced in unwilling bobby pins the reused, recycled air circulating through the blue-gray, red splotched stage, caging even confinement the fourteen-hour play begins, the locked in audience hesitantly complies, choice ripped heartlessly out of their hands, thought surrendered to hierarchical order, to the solemn totem pole waiting in the midst behind clicked in and buckled plastic making a prisoner even out of imprisonment, shackling her with chains that rattle with a breathless, deathly wheezing imprisonment: the red-dressed vixen sporting dangerous black heels, known for luring helpless victims like flies befriends the caged confinement, barred behind a steel circular trap tilted, always slightly tilted/ the perfect pair of pantyhose, not even nurturing a rip/ solid-colored pumps matching the mundane solid-colored uniform with a spark of stripe act II finishes with a predictable surmise, climaxing to the heightened plot, peaking the pyramid, following the steep ascent to the seat of pleasure pleasure: not defined as the normative discourse of literary theorists, but the aesthetic beauty found in the utmost useless, the opposition of Freytag's summit the anxious twinge starts to nerve the play-goers in a fidgety, tense dance shifting from one side to the other unaware of the imaginary, stagnated melody no intermissions/ over-priced admission/ the longest wait to the bathroom the called-in attention, announced over the raspy intercom, fuzzed over with a false sweetness and muffled beneath concern no end in sight to the squeezed so-called comfort, the staged theatrical dialogue, buzzing with a maddening hum overhead
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1 Review Added on December 26, 2010 Last Updated on December 26, 2010 AuthorAvani ChhayaAboutI am a junior at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign studying English with a secondary education minor. I have an intense love for reading and writing. I want to become a more confident.. more..Writing
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