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We learned to dance beneath a gazebo / in Spring Lake Park / We were fourteen
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She only knew her daddy's soft smile and rough hands across her cheeks would help her sleep and dream of a world without such struggles.
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He tapped his foot, swished his hips, swaying across the worn tile floor with an invisible partner in his arms, the batter-coated spoon still clutched in his right hand, momentarily forgotten. Nearly a decade had passed since he last shared a dance with h
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Though she is looking at me, I sense she is seeing someone else. Somewhere else. Maybe a long time ago. Her hair looks like cotton and a silk scarf is draped elegantly across her frail shoulders. Plum lipstick outlines lips almost vanished with age.
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Even if you're doing it together, there's no unity when everyone's dancing to their own tune.
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“Listen, Mother – you’re my ticket out of this burg and I’m not about to cash it in!”
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We dance on rooftop, then I fall off.You're like, "oh shit."Pale blue lobster finds me. Says, "hello." Taps me with claw, "wake up." Looks around, concerned. Shakes me with two claws on collar.Scuttles away for a second.Comes back with warm, perfect, round glazed doughnut.…
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The next day I can’t recall at all, a waste, like the flash of twenty years of my life, faces that pass you like comets in some erogenous unnamed zone of night, but they got me in some isolation room with my wrists in leather restraints.
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papa wants to dance - the future is so bright - feel good all the time baby
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He describes brushes
with royalty. Tête-à-têtes with Nixon. The time Ho Chi Minh phoned at midnight
desperate for his advice. Ah ha, I say. And Really?
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We made a plan to see each other to chat more and so we did. I went to his little house in the neighboring town and walked in to a kind of time warp. It was a large living room, made so by it's emptiness. It was stark in the vastness it seemed, but dark.
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