Thursday, March 26, 2020

The Dancer on the Garbage Truck - poem

Lawrence Hall
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The Dancer on the Garbage Truck

He lightly leaped from the old garbage truck
Waved back at me, and sprinted to the bin
He Fred Astaired it as a pas de deux
And lifted it up with panther-like grace

The battered bin - it could have been: Ginger,
Leslie Caron, or maybe Cyd Charisse
He was a muscled young dancer who made
Even tipping the garbage a work of art

He lightly leaped to the old garbage truck
Waved me good-bye, and danced the day away

2 comments:

wk kortas said...

Why Busby Berkeley never worked with trash bins is a mystery to me.

Lawrence Hall, HSG said...

And then Gene Kelly with a broom. And a mouse.