Fox-Trot(Dapper Dan)

Fox-Trot(Dapper Dan)

DISTRESSFULLY aware, he was employedIn dangling clumsy legs into the void,But the melancholy whistlesOf the ukulele waveredAnd a tear-drop semiquaveredFrom the music, and the thistlesWere extractedAnd his feetWere attractedBy the fleet,Neat notes ...Those tightly-fitting pairs of gloves that danceAnd beam like a Belasco starOn Broadway, where the houses all advanceTo show how very small we are.And the liquid music throbsJujubes,Crystal-sparkling thoughts in gobsAnd cubes—Flicker-snicker as a scintillating blindIn the breeze,To appeaseThe famished Coney Island of the mind.

DISTRESSFULLY aware, he was employedIn dangling clumsy legs into the void,But the melancholy whistlesOf the ukulele waveredAnd a tear-drop semiquaveredFrom the music, and the thistlesWere extractedAnd his feetWere attractedBy the fleet,Neat notes ...Those tightly-fitting pairs of gloves that danceAnd beam like a Belasco starOn Broadway, where the houses all advanceTo show how very small we are.And the liquid music throbsJujubes,Crystal-sparkling thoughts in gobsAnd cubes—Flicker-snicker as a scintillating blindIn the breeze,To appeaseThe famished Coney Island of the mind.

DISTRESSFULLY aware, he was employedIn dangling clumsy legs into the void,But the melancholy whistlesOf the ukulele waveredAnd a tear-drop semiquaveredFrom the music, and the thistlesWere extractedAnd his feetWere attractedBy the fleet,Neat notes ...

DISTRESSFULLY aware, he was employed

In dangling clumsy legs into the void,

But the melancholy whistles

Of the ukulele wavered

And a tear-drop semiquavered

From the music, and the thistles

Were extracted

And his feet

Were attracted

By the fleet,

Neat notes ...

Those tightly-fitting pairs of gloves that danceAnd beam like a Belasco starOn Broadway, where the houses all advanceTo show how very small we are.And the liquid music throbsJujubes,Crystal-sparkling thoughts in gobsAnd cubes—Flicker-snicker as a scintillating blindIn the breeze,To appeaseThe famished Coney Island of the mind.

Those tightly-fitting pairs of gloves that dance

And beam like a Belasco star

On Broadway, where the houses all advance

To show how very small we are.

And the liquid music throbs

Jujubes,

Crystal-sparkling thoughts in gobs

And cubes—

Flicker-snicker as a scintillating blind

In the breeze,

To appease

The famished Coney Island of the mind.


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