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Based on The Awakening by Kate
Chopin
Tyler Robert Batson
Sing!...
Sizzle!...
Swim!
She is condemned to
speak not
Her voice parishes
in the sepulchral of her surroundings
Sing!...
Sizzle!...
Swim!
She begins to open
up
As the
birds<<<<<<sing>>>>>>
r i s e s
As the sun ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
^
And as the
ocean.......................invites us
She is free....
Phase One:
Setting up the night
A parrot
sings a
suited song:
"Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi!"
The night
approaches....
In silence, she
sings along:
Anew she cries
Held back and bound
in chafing ties
"Getting
out!" and "Getting out!"
She runs into the
darkness
She whines
Her silence shatters
with sadness
Her
body belts out a
sudden discordant serenade
To the
song
She
dances along:
"Turning, she
thrust her face, steaming and wet, into the bend of her arm,
and she went on crying there, not caring any longer...."
She is breathing
from the inside out.....
Inhaling her
condemned feelings and
Exhaling them out
Her body is
singing along
She is growing
Phase two:
Alone and in herself
She falls into deep
sleep
She awakes as the
sun rises from the east....
....And must inevitably settle in the sea
"She
was happy to be alive and breathing....She discovered many a sunny,
sleepy corner fashioned to dream in"
Anew
she is born
Unbound
and untorn
Embracing
the mellow yellow sun
Her
psyche is re-spun
She
is breathing from the inside out....
Inhaling
her condemned feelings and
Exhaling
them out
Her
mind is clear and
bright
She
has grown...
Phase
Three:
She
has grown
Peeling
her accustomed skins
She
offers herself to the sea
She
has accepted her reality
Her
sexuality
Anew!
The
deep dark blue
Anew!
Sexuality
is no longer askew
Anew!
She
is in full view!
"The
water was deep, but she lifted her white body and
reached out with a
long,
sweeping stroke. The touch of the sea
is sensuous,
enfolding the body
in its soft, close embrace"
She
was breathing from the inside out....
Inhaling
her condemned feelings and
Exhaling
them out
Her sexuality
is sparkling
As
the sea sparkles and spins
She
grew.
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