Night Out at the USO
Sailors went to the dance with high expectations
Loftus found a girl with black fingernails
Dancing around a boiling cauldron and
Heard unintelligible incantations bathed in moonlight
Todd tangoed with a gypsy in a candlelight cave
Covered with hieroglyphs- hovering hallucinations
Undulating unconsciously in an underworld
Kampsnieder clung to the known- a pretty thing
A blue dress with large breasts; a sweet breath
A clone of dear old mother and home sweet home
Sayre sidled up to the bar, antagonized the local
Anesthesiologist and spent a bloody night in the alley
Dreaming of dolphins in the deep sea
Williams wept at the widow’s tale- the wrongful
Woe suffered at a murderer’s whim
He made her forget in a welter of mists
They boarded the liberty launch after the bash-
All that is except Todd, who succumbed
To the gypsy’s spell and became a flamenco dancer.
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