His use of the words pleated sheets, explains how he feels life suffocates its members, and theirs dreams, or stars. When someone dies in a hospital, their face is immediately covered by a sheet. Plymell s reference to a pleated sheet could mean that when an AIDS patient dies, they are covered with a different sheet than everyone else, because they were looked upon as unlike society s regular members that may be covered with a plain sheet. Plymell feels that life wraps itself around you and changes or defies your idea of existence to your bitter end. Especially, when he writes leaving party coils to the last car, which could mean life, or AIDS, suffocates you until you become plot 42, row seven.
Life is seen as a party, or glorified event.
As guests arrive in their cars, they are given odd and frightening party favors. This is Plymell comparison to AIDS, in that he feels that the party coils are given to the selected guests to deal with until their death, or as he explains, twilight s slightly twisted cane. One could also make a similar comparison with this writing and Poe s work entitled Masque of the Red Death, in which life is also viewed as party where guests are exposed to a disease they try so terribly hard to avoid. Once the party patrons are given the party coils, their life is altered until they expire. Plymell displays his anger and distaste for life in comparing it to a party gone wrong.