Dance Card
I am no dancer of quicksteps.
Not for me the sure swift
rhythms of the streets, the office
tangos, the at home waltzes.
Not for me the paso doble,
I have no way with pas de deux.
I am the sigh of soft shoe
shuffles done in doorways,
the tap of a steel capped cane.
The cry of someoneBANNED POSTleft to dance
inBANNED POSTwilderness--BANNED POSTtheBANNED POSTclink
of his ball and chain.
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