The Roaring Sea

"The party that professes to worry about the deficit just cost the nation billions of dollars for no reason whatsoever: WELL DONE." -Andy Borowitz

"Sarah Palin said that if a deal isn't reached by Aug. 2, nothing will happen. Do you hear that, award-winning economists?" –Jimmy Kimmel

"Speaking of the debt crisis, I read that if the U.S. debt were stacked in $100 bills, it would be as long as two football fields and as high as the statue of liberty. You know, just in case $14 trillion didn't seem like a lot to you." –Jimmy Fallon

"I'm not saying this Congress is bad at its job. I'm just saying that this Congress is equivalent to a skunk with its head in a jar of Skippy peanut butter." –Jon Stewart

I wrote this poem today after watching a exquisitely beautiful documentary about ballet.

Shivering, the embrace of the coat

Soothes.

Tangled knots and broken plastic.

words, scattered on the floor

dusty and misused.

Ice cold mirror

Chills.

Strong elastic tames unruly hair,

Shaking hands and crimson lips.

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Creaking stairs and ink black darkness.

The coat falls

forgotten 

to the floor.

Ribbon clad feet

step, firmly on polished wood.

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twirling,

faces blur into colours.

poised arms

a few more steps

and a leap.

Arcing through air like,

a soaring dove

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She dances,