All God's children do the Code Blue Waltz! So come on, wallflower! |
She went code blue at noon ranks hurried to their roles, sober healers bustled performed a dreary show. I hope they gave a shove through death's open door, and didn’t keep her back she’s nearly eighty four. Did we want her to die, multiple times? I sob with sheer abandon behind my smoky shades. A fully grown man crying all eyes turn away. I don’t know what to do I don’t know where to go, floor nurse, she say, “Call the Reverend Shay.” So I call the Reverend Shay, He say, “I’ll be there right away.” An hour slowly passes and then a little more, I pace with aimless purpose just inside the door. Finally, Twixt pavement parted oaks there comes a Polo shirt, through sunny Autumn rain of leaves upon the earth. A cell phone to his ear he commits a social sin, forgetting the occasion he chuckles coming in. Inside the special room he puts away his phone, assumes his business face and shifts to solemn tones. “All is well my son no need in feeling sad she’s up in heaven now, waltzing with your dad! One two three One two three…” “But Reverend Shay, they were too ashamed to waltz. And that’s but one in many of their fear driven faults. “My suffering son release to God your strife, everyone is whole in the afterlife.” “But they were dumb as cows, so how can that be?” In heaven I won’t know them and they won’t know me.” All of a sudden up he did jump, shaking his hands and protruding his rump. He shimmied round the room with a "Soul Train" strut, one hand in the air one upon his butt. “We go-dee go-dee goes till we ho-dee ho-dee halts, everybody got to do the Code Blue Waltz. Now Eva and Adolph* that’s a whole other show, they burn baby burn down in “Disco Inferno.” He boogied through the door and out into the hall, I listened for the echo of his final funky call: “We go-dee go-dee goes till we ho-dee ho-dee halts, pick your self a partner for the Code Blue Waltz. All God’s children do the Code Blue Waltz. One two three One two three…” *The Hitlers wed in a Berlin bunker shortly before committing suicide. |