Other Dancers
Justin Spring

Everyone looks a little silly, or stupid,
maybe because we're still hung over
from the party last night and it's early
in the morning, Too early, Art keeps saying,
exasperated, angry with me
for having missed the first fitting,
but I've never seen myself like this,
I'm kind of grinning off into the distance
but I have this hard, Don't shit me look
on my face, like I'm a second away
from hitting someone, and I suddenly realize
I'm seeing my father, the one my wife always sees,
there's that quick fist, that disgust.

ISBN 0-9624453-5-5
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