Once In a Lifetime Ragtime Dancing
The crowd went wild.
And she swirled like spring molasses
She danced and danced and danced
And caressed the air with a honey-brown hand.
The crowd drank gin, got drunk on the blues
And she drank in the night in one long swallow
Sassy-slow saxophone bathed the room.
And they listened with hunger and tapping feet
Ragtime dancing languid with heat and spangled pop
And it went on forever and danced all night
sleeping in the morning with blues-weary eyes
And she melted in a pool of gin-crisp dancing
One foot tapped on.
And the crowd went wild.
Copyright © Ginna Wilkerson | Year Posted 2007
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