From a More than Occasional but Less than Regular Marble Bar Performer
(Relive the '80s for more on the Philly music scene.)

1. The Rooters’ Trip to Baltimore, 1980
2. New Wave: It’s All About the Lyrics
3. Dancing: Pogo or Slam

4. Where’s the Sex?
5. Not in the Dressing Room
6. The Ending Begins
7. The Audience, Not the Band

Jumpin at the Marble Bar

by Tom Roller
For Marilyn, Don and of course Reesa

In a time when,
In a world where
The only logical choice
     Is suicide

I find it harder
And harder
     To cling to illogic.

What is it about a long
     Lilting skirt
Lifts me with such dizzy
     Facility
To something like sanity?

I want to die
     On the dance floor,
Jumping so far and high
     From my mind

My heart forgets its pumping.

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