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“The Dancing at Joinville”
Old Jacques &
smooth Pierre
the ladies'
skirts riding their
thighs
heels flashing.
Pierre moves like an
arrow,
perfected
he swirls his old
black laced girl
inescapable
as a clock.
And we dance too
the old tunes blaring
over the Marne.
We eat
frites & fried minnows
while laced hems
black & purple
move to the inevitable
dance
/
this life
& that tune
its old harmony
haunting the
precise
movement
of bodies.
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