hungarian dance №5, Redux
the tune is only
a way to hide
your pain
it starts
slowly enough
(the dance
it unfolds
like a mechanical flower
opens its thin metal petals
the dance!
is not something that
can
be
taught
no chords
no melody to tunes
of words learned or forsaken
no steps to be taken
but it gets faster
so you must either
lay into turns
add gas
run through lights
or stop
let muscle memory
spasm
still and frozen
tempo will tell you
realities
chosen
in twofourths time
limbs heavy and full
while the invisible
worms of thought
bore through your skull