I'm in line to see a play. Red velvet walls with sculptures inset into niches, a formal atmosphere, a small gathering of people. I recognize a couple of girls, don't know how or from where, we make eye contact, glance away, it's a bit awkward...
They begin to allow people in to be seated, and I pop outside for a final cigarette...
I find an exit, go out, pull out my cigarettes and one flies off the balcony down below, there's a black guy, across from the balcony, hinting he's going to get it, I tell him not to worry, looking over the balcony it's several stories to the bottom, a many-storied mall of sorts, he's making some sort of to-do as if my cigarette was lit and starting a fire, so I find a route down and begin to look for it...
...down and down, inter-crossing stairways, it's a maze of sorts this, and I run into Michael J. Fox, and we're talking and walking and I'm a bit distracted, he's a pretty nice guy, or he's warmed to me because I'm recognizing him not for his celebrity...
...and then around a corner and I'm in a multi-storied mall, filled with amusement acardes and barkers, I'm obviously a bit lost because one of the barkers in the center of the mall and sees me and says "Looking for the movie - Last Exit to Uxborough? It's just straight ahead in Phase 2"...and I get that it's a burn, Phase 2 of the mall is miles away, and nobody wants to see Last Exit to Uxborough and as I'm walking past I can still here him and his friends loudly laughing, they think they've sent this tourist on a wild goose chase in the wrong direction, and I get annoyed and go back, and say..."At least I'm not working in a mall..." and now they're a bit annoyed...
...there's a couple of slender stairwells that lead up to a glass faced world-health center, by slender I mean a few inches wide, going up narrowly and letting myself in a small glass porthole, I'm lost, have missed the play, and there seems to be no escaping this mall...