Flora Dora girls danced
on top of the world; she
lived to old age while the gas lights                                       dimmed;
this is imported from England
w/ the sword of Excalibur hidden
beneath                                                      
                                                                ­                                     her
mink;
there were naked ladies
at the beginning of time;
dancing in hoop skirts &
colored tights;
their stockings smelling like their                                             hairy bodies                                           after hours

of sweaty dancing under hot flames;
on the pyre where so many heroes
                                                          ­          have walked through the crimson door

to her villa with the heads of stone
children of timeless beings
who walked
                       on that beach & another
for the saucers; we wait in times spiral;
until mothers return
in new bottles like old jinn