I must be a musician after all
I don't remember the dance troupe
or the routines
but I do remember
the dapper Mr Cage
sitting off to one side
at a card table
and while the dancers broke
to change their costumes
he kept up a light patter
telling jokes and every now and then
he'd pop the cork on one
of the champagne bottles
set down beside his chair
the corks would fly
some thirty feet straight up
into the air with a clear popping sound
heard throughout the hall
and every time he'd waited
just long enough to make it a surprise
he wasn't even drinking the champagne
just using it to make a kind
of chamber music