check into a shabby hotelscold my wife for being stupid on our left for some minor faultan unpleasant blast of cold airgo from one table to anothersit down at a tablepress one of the small flowers flatlean overstraighten upin one quick motionbeat the keys with magic handsnod his head in rhythm in time to the musicbeat rhythm with his fork against a bottlecall for champagnemake the roundskiss each of us on both cheeksreleas the love and joykeep time to the Christmas carols