Enough Bravado [a dance]

I clomp towards you
with one high-heeled shoe
and one bare foot
rise up
and fall into a pinwheel
I stomp and my wings arc out
I turn them inside out
then fly up on a high draft.

When I come back around, it's an easy tip-tap
a flip-flop hip-hop in the be-bop old style
but it gets me tangled up into a pretzel
and then another pretzel.

I lunge away, and then lunge deeper, and then deeper
and split in half, I try to stomp
and I open up to the sky and try to stomp again
I rock like a ship
and then jump overboard
This bit, here, is all about thighs.

My bare left heel is quaking
and I take note of it
and then I notice you noticing it
I snap at it to come to attention
I snap at it
I snap
it brings me down to its level, and I crumple.

When I soar back up, I WHACK WHACK WHACK
BANG BANG BANG BANG

[oh god what have i done
this is fucking stupid
snap i look like a fool
shiver what are they all going to think of me
alright, get it together
you can do this
just puff up
puff up]

Well hello there
check out my tricep
look at me strut
yes you!
me?
him.
Birds fly? Everything is worth pointing to.
Everything is bravado.
WAM!
WAM!
BAM!
THANK!
YOU!
MA'AM!
Beepa-tappa-tappa-tippa-bee-boppa-doppa toppa-deep-a-do-bop-dop
[and then I fly]
Come on, everybody!
Beepa-tappa-tappa-tippa-bee-boppa-doppa toppa-deep-a-do-bop-dop
Beepa-tappa-tappa-tippa-bee-boppa-doppa toppa-deep-a-do-bop-dop

Oh fuck it.
You guys don't know how to play.
Fuck this.
Fuck this stupid shoe.
Meema-mamma-mamma-mimma-mee-momma-momma-momma-meem-a-mo-mop-mop
[sharp inhale of breath]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!