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20051202
  tiptoeing dreams

imelda
Originally uploaded by ulanmaya_deux.

sorry i couldn't come, girl. but i wrote you this poem last night in case i can't come. and i can't. and this is a bad poem. but i'm sure your gig was successful! ;-P



resa's poetry prompt:
i tippytoe across your dream each night
so as not to wake you

imelda's gig at the fairmont hotel,
dec. 2, 8 p.m.


he tippytoed across her dream each night...
so as not to wake her in fright...

tomorrow at the hotel fairmont...
they'll hear a sweet lass sing up front...

a gig free her husband is taping...
for he told her, magical was her singing...

better than just playing for free...
good enough to appear on national TV...

she mumbled, "mmm," and shifted in bed...
faced the wall and gathered her blankets instead...

he lay still on his back, studying the ceiling...
i'll write the david letterman show in the morning...

asleep, hugging their generous blanket...
she listened and smiled secretly...

the sheet was the worst pattern she had ever seen...
but he chose it, so they used it immediately...

persistently, he e-mailed the show...
until the producers e-mailed back, "our answer is no"...

but new york city with its speed and its lights...
its incessant humming and bewildering sights...

prodded a producer into calling chicago...
"send us a tape of your wife on the piano..."

"as soon as we receive it..."
"we'll watch it and consider it..."

he couldn't believe the door that was opening...
she's seen the piano and the space she could sing...

the lights, the stage, the baby grand white piano...
all at a stately columbus drive rialto...

"i can't wait to muck it up," she murmured...
but there was cost, invitations, taping to consider...

"and then we can send the tape to letterman," he said...
"what?" she said...

we'll tape it to send to letterman...
"i thought you were joking"...

he planned all this while she dreamt...
tippytoed assembled, vanilla-colored moment...

the friends came and the applause was generous...
the expectations evaporated in an event victorious...

she played "cartoons" and "safe"...
and they sent off the tape...
 
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