Pavane pour un infant défunt   (Pavane for a dead infante)
(For the gay men still being executed in Iran.
after Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte)

dance
the
pavane
as we mourn
another young prince
a scared blind-folded infante
his final humiliation displayed in public
he'll die trussed and lynched from a rope
the noose on a crane
crowds down here
alone
up
there