My verses cannot comment
on your immortal moment,
or tell you what you mean;
only Balanchine
has the razor edge,
and knows that art of language.
(Photo right: Arthur Mitchell, George Balanchine and Suzanne Farrell rehearse "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," music by Richard Rodgers. Mitchell instructed the usually formal Farrell to "sex it up," for her part as the jazzy Strip-Tease girl to Mitchell's Hoofer. She had trouble dancing full out in rehearsal but once the curtain went up, her "uninhibited performing nerve" took over. — sdh)