Vitamin M

Lake Forest Park in
Fort Pierce, Florida
12/28/12.
These folks rock!

Roomful of white hair, flesh thin as paper in sweaters 'cause the fan is on, because it's December. Walkers and canes, hearing aids turned down for music that's a little loud and now a group's gyrating by the doorway, 16 again by reason of verse or melody, beat that takes them
back to high school when they blushed and said
that yes, they'd love to dance. There's energy in
Music, no way to get it but to take a chance
and rise and move and hope that in the morning
they'll remember Happy Hour without regret,
muscles a might sore, perhaps,but oddly satisfied.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2012