I don't understand poetry, can someone help me to decipher what this means?

[gonzo09]

Liars' DanceThe myth says, he left three women,three children, his family; his best friendhe left to die alone, so he was lonelyand unloved to the bitter end.We live far more in fractals than in grids. His fourth wife was a Chicana, a widowwith four children who had a housein a good section of the L.A. hills.Of all his wives and girlfriends,she alone resembled our mother--small, dark, busty, flirtatiousshe smiled easily and lied,as well as he did, but not to him.She was Spanish, an old colonial family; he was French.They were passionate to be proper.Their house was papered with geneologies,an aristocracy of Oz, detailed as the papers of a prize schnauzer,a past elaborated, documentedwith zeal of federal marshalsprotecting a star witness.maybe I should simply see itas a mating dance, two cranesstepping about each other transfixed,the ritual of two hot loversin bed pretending to be childrenor Klingons or dogs-- extendingthe role for thirty years.Like lovebirds in a cage,they did not tire of the mirroror each other.

[KevinS4741]

Don't feel bad...this has all the trappings of "intellectual" inflation...where someone in literary circles says, "hey, this poem is fantastic", when others might say, "hey, what's the big deal". Frankly, I'm unimpressed. However, your assignment was to "understand" the poem, so I'll give it a shot. It appears the poet is trying to show parallels of situations that reinforce the title, "liar's dance". The one good line in the poem is "we live far more in fractals than in grids"...other than that, it's a poetic narrative that appears more pretentious than insightful. The last stanza tries to tie it all together, saying "maybe I should see it as a mating dance", referring to all the misc. items that have gone before, especially "she smiled easily and lied, as well as he did, but not to him", meaning that the both of them lied, but not to each other...to each other they merely danced around things in a sort of courting ritual...for thirty years.Personally, I don't get much out of this one that isn't obvious and obtuse...too many words to say too little...yet the images are vivid...you'll probably never see this again outside your class.