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    Tuesday, February 03, 2004
     
    This is a poem about Evansville Dance Theatre

    The music fills the warm damp air
    The heads turn sharply
    The girls move as one to the beat
    As the teacher corrects their feet

    The studio door suddenly creaks
    A gush of cold air pours in
    Refreshing the hallway
    Someone entering the theatre

    Outside the studio, two small girls
    Greet the heater like an old friend,
    Patting it like a well-behaved child.
    It repays them with warmth

    The children crane their necks
    To see the "older girls" dancing
    They wish to be like us
    But they have no idea

    No idea what's expected of us
    No idea what kind of self-deprication we put ourselves through
    No idea that every minute we have to worry about how we act
    How we eat, how we look

    We must set the example

    In the hallway, a man jigs while reading the bulliten board
    He turns distractedly from notice to notice
    What's on his mind? We soon see
    For a young girl runs out of the studio

    To hug him
    He holds her in his arms
    Kisses her and commends her hard work
    They leave hand in hand

    The Dance Theatre
    Memory maker
    Memories that last a life time



    - posted by Jewels @ 7:51 PM
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