Ode to poi-spinners, fire-wielders, and people on boats
Oh, fire-spinner!
Your spinning attracts a crowd
Even people on boats!
Boats with booming sound systems
to provide a soundtrack to your art
Daft Punk
Darude
Benni Benassi
And the oohs and aahs and hooting and hollering
Faces lit by both the fires you spin
And the art you give
It happened in a park, surrounded by towering machinery, rolling hills, and a clear view of the downtown area behind the water. From dusk until nightfall. Seeing friends that I felt like I hadn’t seen in months. Someone mentioned that she thought I’d dropped off the face of the earth.
I tell you, there ain’t nothing like dancing like a salmon trying to jump upstream, with the music blasting from the boat of a curious spectator, in front of a couple of people laughing their asses off. With a guy twirling a fire staff a few feet away.
And the view was breathtaking.
