5/30/2010
Piercing through
She appeared all dressed in white and with the sheer intensity of her gestures brought in unspeakable drama.
It was like a slap in the face to this sunny courtyard.
To the artsy crowd,
to the feeling of hipness,
to contentment,
to the need for entertainment,
to the underlying boredom.
A quintessential bourgeois afternoon in an old square
was scratched to the halt.
Faces froze.
Shivers run through spines.
A few laughed (oh well.)
Later, she explained that
it was all spontaneous and improvised.
Just reacting to “too much sun, too much of things being right”
The performance took place in an old synagogue courtyard.
What was she really reacting to?
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