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Lily was a dancer
you could tell
by the moves
she couldn’t make

Billy was a singer
worked the deli crowd
you could say
a counter tenor?

Weekends spent
backgammon and gins
and tonics and
nachos and sex
and gins and
tonics

pirouettes
arpeggios
and daydreams
come and go
all in a row

© Chagall, 2013