Dance Party Remix
we party-hardy in the hospital
we take over your room, camp out, break
out the disco ball like it’s 1972
we shimmy-shimmy go-go pop
pop on borrowed time
tripping the light fantastic
giant linoleum squares
spread out like a picnic blanket
a makeshift dance floor bleached
of all but desire and the dripdrip
drip beepbeepbeep of sick bay
electronica pulsing pulsing
in my heart is an ant forever carrying the dead
& other crumbs
Quercitron
hem nightgown
long fingers
a dream slow stirring
a loose thread
a twitching brushing
long fingers reaching
a grazing of skin
half awake tangle of sheets
a swatting a sting
sleeping prick
drunk bee a death
ankle a tumescence
velvet body crushed
tube of gold paint
squeezed flat
a stillness
Georgia Bellas is a writer, artist, and filmmaker whose current obsession is balloon animals. She and Dan Nielsen are the Wisconsin-based duo Sugar Whiskey (https://sugarwhiskey.com/), a post-minimalist art band. You can follow her teddy bear, host of the award-winning weekly Internet radio show “Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon,” on Twitter @MrBearStumpy.