Strauss Waltz

STRAUSS WALTZ

They meet by accident
in the Viennese restaurant
with the lilt of Strauss behind
and six weeks later are wed

now four more souls fully formed
looking like he, like she -
talking like she, like he -
dine with them at this table
with the same gestures
with the lilt of Strauss behind
all because she turned in at a door
and he fancied apfel strudel

too banal to be false
the same old human waltz