Quixotic Dancers

 

as if you were right all along

and the experts were wrong

 

DNA posthumously validates 

all your intimate impulses

 

it’s taken you this long to know

what’s certain, steady, painful, and slow

 

progress on the map 

is measured in micrometers 

 

with your shoes you tap the vodka

keeping time with your earlobes 

 

dancing to music

popular with ancestors

 

moving against the era

with the recklessness of cats