errol miller
MAJESTIC
Today we went to a night club
with jazz
hot and cold running water
we danced for years
on a polished wooden floor
and in the afternoon
we slowly moved out in a semi-circle
like Paris in the 20's
younger, light-hearted, more vulnerable
nobody trusted the present
to launch us to the dimlit future
a gloomy time I think
we were exceptionally lonely, comforted
by the slanted eyes of servant-women waiting
of course we were neurotic
something about the coming and going
of a generation under duress
and later, after many drinks of absinthe
people were everywhere, politely chattering
living and dying, checking in and out
with the intense curiosity
typical of war
and the return of a major artist
who has come back from
the Stone Wall.
