they placed ten pin bowling *****
into the backpacks of the ballerinas,
strapped them on their backs,
and made them dance,
lightly on wet cement
and if they made a single mark
then they were  sentenced
to choose between
a thousand lovers without a single
love
or a thousand loves without a single
lover
and if any of them could not choose
then they
were buried alive
underneath a new round
of wet cement
for the next group
of uncertain ballerinas
to dance upon,
lightly.