Fred Astaire

He tosses things
in the air while
doing the two step
dance of the fearless.
His inability to fail
seems like a miracle.
His two step dance
is the dance Joshua
danced when Satchmo played the trumpets.
It's clearly
an American dance,
invented in the invincible land of the free.
It is the dance of sales
and enterprise, risk
and freedom.

Fred Astaire has a way with a smile
which absorbs
even the deepest
of desolations
transforming them
to situational
jokes. Women
give him their hearts
and he upends them,
open-eyed and alert.
He plummets face first
along the current, shouting
what wild heros shout,
"yahoo!" Never doubting.