Nadia Comaneci

from The Drone of Love by Kurt Chaboyer

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Democracy is Nadia Comaneci



In 1976, a fourteen-year-old Romanian gymnast earned seven perfect tens at the Montreal Summer Olympics. Nicolae Ceaușescu was the Cold War Romanian dictator from 1967 until he and his wife were executed on Christmas Day, 1989, a month after Nadia escaped the country, thus putting an end to my dream of helping her defect myself.


1985

The black dot above your lip,
the way you swing your little hips
around the bar.
Put on your heels,
put on your make-up,
slip on your hot pants,
and we’ll slip the guards.

All dressed up like just another
couple on the subway
to disguise our blood
run wild like the rain,
for if the son of the dictator
thinks we’re late now,
he’s got no idea how long he’ll be waiting.

I understand
that it’s not easy
to be the man who
wants to understand you.
Neither is it easy being free,
less I’m free for you.


Gymnast of my dreams,
let’s not go to the beach,
we were not meant to lay down in the sand.
Till that mean man
swings from a tree,
we work on our routines.


December 25, 1989

It’s not out of reach,
It’s just that
perfection’s resting,
you had your tens,
you will have them again.
Can’t trust them judges,
they’re old and senseless,
they’re beneath beauty,
but above the defenseless.

Gymnast of my dreams
makes it look easy,
Nadia in command.
When at last we see
on State TV, his vessel empty,
we’ll go dancing.

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from The Drone of Love, released January 22, 2017
Music and words by Kurt Chaboyer, baritone guitar by Ed Tapceanu, bass and Hammond organ by Tom Mennier, drums by Bucky Wheaton, arranged by Tom Mennier, back vocals by Emma Frank, Dorianne Lanoix and Joelle Lanoix. Recorded and mixed by Tom Mennier, Montreal 2015.

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Montrealer Kurt Chaboyer came from Vancouver via NYC for good times and to make music.

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