Courage

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... I could show my prowess --
Be a lion not a mou-ess --
If I only had the noive.
-The Wizard of Oz

Went out to K2^[1] yesterday evening.

Dorothy: Your Majesty, If you were King, you wouldn't be afraid of anything?
Lion: Not nobody, not nohow!

Went all by myself. Asked people to dance.

Tin Man: Not even a rhinocerous?
Lion: Imposserous!

And got asked to dance. More than once.

Dorothy: How about a hippopotamus?
Lion: Why, I'd trash him from top to bottomamus!

Even after they saw me dance with other people.

Dorothy: Supposin' you met an elephant?
Lion: I'd wrap him up in cellophant!

Sometimes even after they danced with me.

Scarecrow: What if it were a brontosaurus?
Lion: I'd show him who was King of the Forest!

Stayed until midnight. Had a good time.
Know now I can go back there when time permits.
Not the best follow there -- perhaps still "worst" --
but yet not all that much worse, either. Go me!

If I were King of the Forest...
Not queen, not duke, not prince.
My regal robes of the forest...
Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz.

^[1] For those not familiar with the DC swing dance scene the K2 Dance Studio (Rhode Island Ave., College Park MD) is THE Cool DC Lindy Hop Dance Venue on Wed. nights. The floor is unbelievable, weird little panels of what looks like a horribly bad fruitwood veneer, or faux wood pattern shelf paper smothered in polyurethane - but underfoot it's like wearing satin slippers on glass covered with butter. Slidy!