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Image: Detail of Yvonne Rainer's Spiraling Down Photo: Paula Court

Disco-

poetics

by
Cynthia
Nadelman
1978

 

Brooka Brooka Brookalyn
swank
Yonka Yonka Yonkas' twin
diaphanous mirrored ball turning
violin tango on the wall
strobe light
flick
bite
bang door
do it on the floor
not Latin hustle listen parquet
but
heavy shag
over the mag-type
Pirelli belly
cruise on freeway
Don John fiddles with music
glide slide glide slide
Manahatta Manahatta
never been no more than roofs

©Nadelman after day job in Yonkers, NY and a night at the movies (Saturday Night Fever) .