Formerly my Fridays
With “the girls”
Now, part-time
Poet
Teacher
Vain fool
Driving home still
The same
Wine-happy two glasses on
The edge a lonesome reality
Truck cab filled with
Some inane tune
Not Aretha, Stones, or Hendrix
Those here-to-fore
Post-cultural anthems
Not even Motown’s
Grooved soul strong invoking
Memories of sweaty
California nights
Dancing on perdition’s
Edge – no
This impractical
Tune made me glad
For winter & windows
Up sparing others
The sound of my voice
Emboldened with spirits
Singing from a seat on the
Fringe of bedraggled dreams
Twenty-two miles
Before I engage
Sobering cold
Doors
Reality’s reluctant usher
Our “Livin for the Weekend” days have long gone leaving in its place fond and not so fond memories of our youth !
We could hang On Fridays til the dawn. Saturday the same thing! Wow, I remember those days and nights!
Rhonda Sent it from her iPhone.