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For David Mercer

I like dancers who stamp.
 
Elegance
 
Is for certain trees, some birds,
 
Expensive duchesses, expensive whores,
 
Elegance, it’s a small thing
 
Useful to minor poets and minor footballers.
 
But big dancers, they stamp and they stamp fast,
 
Trying to keep their balance on the globe.
 
Stamp, to make sure the earth’s still there,
 
Stamp, so the earth knows that they're dancing.
 
Oh the music puffs and bangs along beside them
 
And the dancers sweat, they like sweating
 
As the lovely drops slide down their scarlet skin
 
Or shake off into the air Like notes of music.
 
I like dancers, like you, who sweat and stamp
 
And crack the ceiling when they jump.

 
 
Dance Poetry
A comprehensive anthology
Edited by Alkis Raftis
Copyright 2012

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