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Let’s Dance 1983

Cara Losier Chanoine

I catch a paperboy
dreaming
of pieces of machinery;
a typical mother’s son,
he trembles
like a flower.

Your heavy reputation
doesn’t hold a candle
to your high life disguise.
You were the widow
of a wild cat,
colder than a thousand years.

The world is on a corner;
god and man
waiting for the scythe.
No confession
terrifies me,
just the power
to the Charm.
The holy pictures face the wall
and pretend that nothing
really meant too much.
They get home
damp-eyed and weary.

Beneath your makeup,
I recognize your destination.
Colour lights up your face,
and if you should fallÉ
but I’m ready to throw in my hand.
I feel tragic—
it’s in the white of my eyes,
like I’m Marlon Brando.
I know a way to find a situation
but I’m standing in the wind,
like weeds on a rock face.

I’ve been putting out the moon
with eyes like burning jungle,
and—what’s my line?
It sounds like the devil breaking parole.
Even red shoes
dance the blues,
and I’m standing
on a corner of the world,
in its secret, fearful places
with this plague
I call a heartbeat,
so
what’s
my line?

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