the dance I didn't attend

lights flash / bodies bend / like the minds behind the bathroom stalls / polished tile instead of varnished gym floor / soles (souls) unfit for dancing attempt to replicate that short they stumbled upon last night / dial of pressure cranked to red / while she focused on the back of his head / meanwhile: feeble silver light reached a pale hand / through shuttered windows / I lay there in bed / without worries of a text I didn’t send