Last Dance

ALOHA, Donna Summer

 It was a time,

what a time it was;

New Liberation

and no AIDS yet,

or even GRID.

Dancing was freedom

Dancing was who we were,

what we were about.

Night after night,

every night

of the week.

The "General Public"

knew nothing of it!

 It was a secret,

on the back streets.

There was

NO RAINBOW FLAG

as yet.

But there was 

DANCING.

Hip people

can roll their eyes,

but back then,

before John Travolta

or the BEE GEES

heard the beat,

it was

ours.

The "Club Kids"

and the "Rave Kids"

didn't

invent

ecstatic dancing.


We didn't invent it either,
but we 
re-discovered
and lived it!

It goes back

to the beginning.

Every Gay Bar

in the world

wrapped up the night

with Donna Summer's

"Last Dance."

I'm sure many still do.

They will tonight
for sure.

Tonight

in Heaven

a LOT of people

dear to me

who died TOO young

are dancing their

 ASSES OFF!

Get me a drink friends,

cause I'm gonna rip it up

when I get there!

Thanks for stopping by 

the wake

YOU are my friend

and YOU

are 

APPRECIATED! 

Fondly, cloudia