Scaredy Cat Tango

At the afterparty I watch the man who can’t see.

He’s dressed for a milonga, minus the hat.

“Did you meet him? Did you meet him?”

He wants them to go away -- those bees,

Buzzing and stinging just because

He thinks he has no honey.

Diana disguised in low cut slit black

My arrows safely hidden inside Amazonian lunchbox

Because it took at least nine lives to get here

I slink and creep over

Ready to pounce

He bows and leaps away

All I wanted was to meow

And ask him to dance

That’s the last time I pay

Sixty bucks for an evening

That doesn’t include

La Cumparsita.

(Nov/2005)

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