In a men's bathroom
during intermission the back half becomes a food court.
A mother enters;
a moviegoer looks over stainless-steel urinals.
Unfortunately
many of the urinals are filled with boiling water
and black gelatin.
Day turns into night at the base of a green ziggurat.
A soccer circle
kicks a ball around. One player has two pointy elbows.
Bicycling away,
Stephen's vehicle transforms into a Jaguar roadster.
Another Jaguar
speeds down a winding mountain road with Stephen pursuing.
Descending into
a clockwise square spiral, the driver of the fleeing car
handsignals his turns.
At the bottom of the spiral is a spacious white room.
On first inspection,
besides gilded chair rails and moldings, there are no exits.
Furniture appears
softly as Steve susses to himself, "Satan's sitting room."
Another victim,
Teresa, stands. Two unlit tunnels materialize.
She mutters, "Stephen,
come sit in this room with me. There's a warm fireplace in here."
One last sideways glance
is Stephen's vision of an obsidian mannequin
silently groping
her terrified face, pulling her backwards to nothingness.
More doorways open
outward and Stephen moves through one purposefully to find
a bruised shirtless man
crying. Steve Martin, in the role of Navin R. Johnson,
wields a cardboard axe.
He slashes it at Stephen who says to the dangling man
tied to a dead tree,
"Steve Martin can't hurt me because his name doesn't match mine.
Nor Steven Spielberg."
Stephen finally hides in the top-floor concession stand
on a cargo ship.
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This intermission has been brought to you by the syllable counting game in Dr. Ryuta Kawashima's Brain Age!
