Friday, October 11, 2024

when the thrill is gone

you go to hear
the rock
band
because you've been
buying
their music
for fifty plus years
and you
know every word by heart.
you've
purchased
their records, their cd's
their 8 tracks,
their cassettes
with all the same old
songs,
most in boxes now
inside
a closet. you loved
them.
but then
the lead singer starts
the show
with a twenty minute
sermon
about politics and who
we should
vote for.
preaching his own version
of the gospel
of democracy.
it's so disappointing.
making you leave before
the first
guitar lick takes place,
or drum gets hit.
born to run, hardly,
the thrill is gone.

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