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[aid] => mick
[title] => Morning Dance
[time] => 2003-10-09 11:28:02
[hometext] => Breaking the monotony of an ordinary morning...
[bodytext] => It begins with a drumbeat, pounding and insistent Students shuffling to morning classes and high-heeled women click-clacking into sterile offices break into a foxtrot Heaven sends bright blissful notes earthward (somewhere, a glint of sunshine strikes the bell of a brightly polished horn sending dancing ripples of light all up and down 23rd Street) A girl in purple sweatpants grabs a red-faced man in business suit & institutional tie- they twirl together, moving in the rhythms of charleston, lindy hop, mashed potato, cabbage patch; limbs fly through cool morning air Chunky blocks of rhythm pour from some celestial guitar; coats and hats drop to the ground as rush-hour passersby succumb to the relentless beat A jittery bass line rushes the crowd along The drumbeat accelerates to a crescendo; dancers' hurried steps pulverize the pavement And then the rhythm falters, fades; the heavenly tune is lost in a whispering breeze and traffic's roar The commuters resume their frantic workday pace; the morning dance is forgotten. -March 2002- [comments] => 1 [counter] => 178 [topic] => 54 [informant] => sugarboy [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => happypoetry )
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