MILWAUKEE’S FIRST DANCE
Ladies with big south side hair Spin like tops in polyester pairs. Fans overhead slowly turn the hot summer air. Conversations lite as baseball, recipes and Tupperware. Widowed mothers dance with daughters, turning gently round, The corner bar dance floor with the south side sound. 5 p.m. Saturday mass is long since past As the congregation says “amen,” and the pitcher is passed. Accordion maestro with the greased back hair Sends sweethearts and old hipsters moving - as if floating on air. Eighty year old charmer in a bowling shirt Spins his girl friend wearing a poodle skirt. Who surrender Medicare worries beneath a disco ball. Milwaukee’s first dance lives again at Sue’s Dance Hall. Written May 1st, 2001 © on Jun 02 2001 06:56 AM PST 0 • 12
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