chagall backdrop

Our gang stepped lively
on cobblestones laid
by the immigrants

In echelon
choreographed

shoulder sway
from back in the day

before epaulets
and swagger

took half of us
away

before Johnny lie dead
in a rice field

before hippies lost
their hair

but still had lost their minds

city free-fall
the answer blowing
in the wind off rooftops

blonde-on-blonde
before black-on-black

© Chagall, 2013