When its Work is done
a brain will try to dance
Even if it hears nothing
and has not for some time
Even if it knows nothing
of what is current among other dancers
Even if its legs are broken
and it appears to be in pain
over its failure to dance what is now
fashionable or at least acceptable
A brain will try to dance
when it has cast aside its Work
even if it knows it will be forced
to go back tomorrow and once again
heave itself into hard labor
No matter how reluctantly it rises
No matter if dancing itself
led it to this shattering
a brain will dance after Work is done
even if only for one night
or one second before it becomes dead
lying there with broken legs and its Work
left inevitably as incomplete
as whatever it was trying to dance
Dark Matter 
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