febrile

we dance
revel in sybaritic abandon
swirling in a sweaty seething mass
a shoal of bacchanalian bodies
moving in discordant choreography

the sharks
dart in
to devour
the beautiful
the innocent
the drunken
easy targets
dragged off
to dark corners
for dark deeds

but we, we swim together
in this narrowing gyre
a sanctuary made of multitudes
in a vortex of spastic rhythm
all febrile
and feral
and fabulous
pulsating
matching our heartbeat
to the electronic thump
of stereophonic waves
rising and falling
and we 
shimmering in scales of
spangles and spandex
ride them