Revised Poem WHY I HAVEN’T SEEN THEM IN YEARS

 

Didn’t want to be single at 50

Complaining all the time about change

Didn’t want to be around people

Pronouncing the word “multicultural”

As an obscenity that begins with the word “mother”

Didn’t want to hear the phrase

“violating the natural order of things”

If I objected to bigotry and transphobia 

Didn’t want to hear further justifications 

For Donald Trump’s vulgar greedy warmongering 

Didn’t want to be hushed up

If I said I liked certain new movies

Just as much as Old Hollywood classics

Didn’t want to hear discussions at Bob’s Big Boy Burbank

About Alan Ladd being superior to Leo DiCaprio

Didn't want to remain single at 60

And have women steer clear of me

Because of spending decades

In the company of aging men

Who preferred to remain boys

Mike Love with The Beach Boys: The Final Shows (Video)

From last night, where a clearly ill, barely sentient Mike Love sits center stage and is bathed in memories of better days via the current touring Beach Boys and a video screen showing, on occasion, Mike’s past as an active frontman from previous decades.

After Fun Fun Fun ends, John Stamos and another band member help Mike to his feet.

The soundboard plays Bill Conti’s theme from ROCKY over the venue PA.

https://youtu.be/DvMHEH807aw?is=732lTFhsIvjcrtG2

New Poem: STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE TRUMP BLUES

 they erected the Plexiglass dome

 herded the diminishing faithful inside

 talked about America and lied lied lied

 not realizing that many people outside 

 are sick of high prices and unasked-for war

 as the gaslighting and denial lights up the dome

 where the faithful regard Donald Trump and Tommy Tuberville

 as Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great