"Can We Dance?" I Asked ... If You Won't I Will

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I asked the words

               to dance

but they were all

         wallflowers

So I had the dance

                     floor

             to myself

I owned the dance

                     floor

    I loved it and it

              loved me

But no one saw it

    or read a word

                about it

(damn those wallflowers)

   

               Because

 none was written

         And no one

 could hear my feet   

                 Happy

        as they were

               My eyes

were twice as sad

              My soul

    put up a picket fence          

   and put locks on all       

              the doors 

                   Until

the spirit moves me    

            and I visit the      

            neighbors

       I ask them to

                    dance  

 and they send me 

                    home 

                     ***

PAUL OLIVERIO  

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Footnotes

"CAN WE DANCE?" I ASKED        

     IF YOU WON'T I WILL

  is the copyrighted property

                              of LCSoL

                 I think I know why    

                                         I

                                      did

                                     this

It happens when happy feet

                     make only one

                        person happy

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