You dance,
body propelled by bossa nova,
across the lips of a warm Corona.
The buzz of rum,
hot on your breath -
you whisper to yourself, lost
in the Spanish cantations, the quick taps of the electric piano.
You fly unevenly (sometimes
in loop-de-loops) through the night
on tattered wings
that carry you from drink to drink
samba to samba
finding happiness only at the bottom
of an empty bottle.