The Basketball Dance

Do the basketball dance
round an alley hoop,
street-college ball
- let's go loop-de-loop.
A down-town shot
in off the rim,
time-out for car boosts
with your brother's shim.
A pick-up with your bloods;
nothing on the game,
pirouette and dribble
- and the shimmy ends the same.

Do the Basketball dance,
'til the dream just dies:
no-college boys,
with dead-letter eyes.
Do the basketball dance
it's a moving violation,
a one-way ticket
to the Po-lice station.