Day Three – “Shall We Dance?”

Here is the Jim Harrison Prompt for today:

“As with dancing you have to learn the steps”

Feel free to join me in these 28 Days of Unreason as I use lines from Harrison’s Songs of Unreason as writing prompts.   Here is my poem for today:  “Shall We Dance? ”           Cheers!  Jilly

 

Careful lighting
Critical decor
She enters too early

As always;
never fashionably late

Perilous table selection

Too large
she is a part
of a big party yet
to arrive

Too small
A tete-a-tete

They begin
to float in
enter
“Unworthy”
followed closely
by “Failure” and “Botch”
All her old beaus
are here
tonight
but the question
that remains

With which demon

shall she dance;
With which demon
shall she go home?

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