Shadow Dance

We're all here dancing

Down this hall of smoke…

A scant few carry a full flush…

The rest of us are broke…

Some of us are dressed in flesh…

While others are long dead…

Every voice is here right now…

Don't matter what you read…

We're all here dancing

Down this hall of smoke…

At the Hakata Dontaku,

Or the Chelsea in New York…

Burning life's wax at both ends

Sacked out at Bronson Park…

On a nonstop bender now

We ache to play our parts...

We're all here dancing

Down this hall of smoke...

A sir with eyes as black as coal

Is reaching in his cloak...

A girl drops off as glasses clink...

A knife gleams in the dark...

The words we say,

The things we do

Are causing tiny sparks...

We're all here dancing

Down this hall of smoke…

A scant few carry a full flush…

The rest of us are broke…

Some of us are dressed in flesh…

While others are long dead…

Every voice is here right now…

Don't matter what you read…

9/27/24

Bunny Villaire

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