What do these lines of lyric poetry …

At first, I was afraid, I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side …

… have to do with these lines of lyric poetry?

Desire itself is movement / Not in itself desirable;
Love is itself unmoving / Only the cause and end of movement …

The answer, to quote another great line of lyric poetry, is this:

Absolutely nothing, uhh …

But that didn’t stop me, when I was a newly declared English major in college, from thinking that they were connected – that, in fact, everything was connected – from disco queen Gloria Gaynor to the great modernist poet T.S. Eliot to Motown singer Edwin Starr, belting out his hit song, “War (What Is It Good For?).”

I wrote a story about that year – the year I spent reading Shakespeare by day and hanging out at the disco at night – and naturally, I called it “Disco Desperados.” I’m so grateful to The Writing Disorder for publishing it in their journal.

To read the story, click here. And if it makes you want to get down and boogie-oogie-oogie, please pass it along to your friends!