the little Chairman dances

                   (and as with John Adams, "dances" is a verb)

1.

the little Chairman dances.

see how he strolls along the wall

of brick and quarried stone,

a more sensible wall than the wall

winding uselessly at the doorway to China.

(and to be clear, neither wall can be seen from the Moon!)

the little Chairman, primed for bigger things, dances

through good times and bad times, through meager

familial wages and through acid fumes of leaded gasoline.

2.

the little Chairman dances the Wooly Bully,

dances the Hoochie-Coochie, buttoned-up tight

always prepared for bad weather.

there’s a long, long road to travel

for the little Chairman who dances.