Dancing My Way Out Poem by Margaret Alice Second

I worked from home, Covid 19 of course,
then turned sixty and retired and at the end
translated a text with an index and tables and
could I do it? NO, I could not, did an index once,
years ago - tables beyond me - never used them

In Interpol messages and agricultural documents:
so what did I accomplish? - I do not know, at least
I left my African colleagues with joy, playing the song
Jerusalema loud on my cell phone, the whole world
singing and dancing with Africa - me singing and

Dancing my way out of Government Service also…