Monday, October 12, 2015

Humans Need Attention

Storytelling, live theater, real life reflected via fleshy-boned vessels with spirits, 
genetic memory, heart-humbled mostly, soul walking, purposely positioned 
to edu-tain, irritate, stir-up, trigger that very thing 
that makes us vulnerable when we want to be hard-core gangstas 
or confused when the stranger sitting near us in the cafe unloads a gesture of love, 
a formula defined as song or dance or poem or stare...
we're so uncomfortable that instead of waiting for intermission to make a camouflaged exit, 
we abruptly stand up, knocking over chairs that spill onto the stage, 
barely missing the already injured-one in our horizon-lined view 
and proceed in yelling, at the top of our lungs no less, FIRE, FIRE, FIRE 
while simultaneously hopping like a rabbit on one leg 
and throwing rose petals in the four corners of the room...accomplished mayhem...and curtain

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman

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