I COULD SING TO YOU

I could begin my seduction

With a gyro undulation

To a spicy salsa rhythm

Or, with my loneliness

Circling you, smoky-throated

In the slant of blues and jazz

Then, too, my so brief happiness

Glittering on the air might dance

With ragtime syncopation

Perhaps my sorrow dragging

Across the air or your soul

Might wail in a minor gypsy tune

Yes, I could sing to you.

But would you hear?

Would you care?