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ARC: Etc: Arts: Marketing as Life: City Climbing: Scenes from a Chicago Health Club
ARContribution by George M. Zinkhan
“City Climbing: Scenes from a Chicago Health Club”
At the health club (at high noon)
suited men from Amoco Tower
come to climb the indoor wall
slanted here and there
and stretching up: six stories tall.
Formal skins are shed, spidermen emerging
with long ropes and webs
suspended from distant ceilings
The determined creatures climb high,
pausing at odd angles
with open mouths.
After climbing
there are showers and soap
and powder and hair spray
to reassemble the corporate veneer
lost (temporarily) in the curious ascension.
When the lunch hour ends
suited men from Amoco Tower
(newly coifed) run for elevators
rising toward their work desks
fifty-one stories above the asphalt.
Chicago, IL
August 1992 |