Dance Lessons Here, Real Cheap

 

I got the Blues - Ich hab den Blues 52 x 36 cm c/o Karin Goeppert

DANCE LESSONS HERE, REAL CHEAP

You’re on the run, aren’t you? Sit down here

next to me. I have more time than is good

for you but I think you will like me in the end.

Let’s start with a few dances. This one’s called

“Werewolf” and sort of resembles a tango with hair.

And the “Tonic Water Waltz” is for ex-alcoholics

who, as the story has it, are never really “ex”—

the way people who suck on e-ciggys are   

never really “ex,” are dying in fact to go back to

their corrosive old lover’s “Deadly Embrace”—the name,

by the way, of a decidedly  less wholesome dance.    

I’m famous for my “Rumba for Runaways.” This is

a dance of delicate delinquencies, of infractions

that matter only to the…infractor? None of this is easy

but I’m pretty sure you will catch on fast and stay a while

turning barefoot on this scruffy lawn for one of those

glimpses of eternity when everything finally makes sense.