Casanova's Bossa Nova

The dance shoes, seduction

and coercion, owned by male feet,

roam floors that beg for chandeliers.

In search of flat-footed beauty

and a bed, where ever they might be,

the handsome conversation attracts

female followers trading on the smiles

of curves. The next steps are dizzying

and leave dresses dipped and hung over

with a purse and heart opened at

their tops. The wallflowers can't say

when the tango with the rag doll began,

but witnesses toasted a conga line

of would-be brides that transcend

a retirement community in Florida,

each giving up their precious moments

on Earth to fandango's flimflam.