The Dance Sign Poem by Paul Hartal

At the blue end
of the blind alley
the sign said: DANGER!

The letters were painted
big and bold in red,
on a black surface.

One day
a small man,
dressed in green,
stopped at the sign.

And then
from his yellow toolbox
he pulled out
a white airbrush
and began to spray
with black paint
the sign board,
until it erased
the letter R in red.

Next, he targeted
the letter G.
However,
he sprayed black color
only on part of the red G,
turning it
into a letter C.

So now the sign read
in red on black: DANCE!

Then the small man,
dressed in green,
put back
the white airbrush
into his yellow toolbox
and he quietly
left the scene.

A few days went by and
nothing much happened.

But then by and by
more and more people
came to see
the new sign in red
on a black background
that said: DANCE!

And many of them,
men and women,
some old, some young,
followed the instruction
and they began to dance.

And in the end
at this blue end
of the blind alley
a jolly music band
also appeared and
it played wonderful
crowd pleasing
popular pieces
from the morning
till the small hours
of the night.