‘Burlesque’

‘Burlesque’ timothy r gates, 8/29/2010 for Minsky Malone

This way, that too
without a peep it’s a beep
awakening those only wanting to holler,
‘That’s not right!’
Taboos makes you go zaboo-boo-doo-boo-yah,
when lovers allure rather than pounce
calling out to one another, liturgically,
‘Oh, G---d!’
One o’clock, two o’clock, three o’clock
rock – happy to dance round the clock
under her moon, under my moon,
under the light of the silvery moon.
A tease of Gypsy Rose Lee,
with low kicks, a pucker without any licks,
a dip and then just before full sight, a tip –
Burlesque find’s its Lao Tzu.