Simple Song
The are girls already settled
by the stage when I get there –
Hey, didn’t expect
to see you here, Mandy says.
I wanted to see the new Metro.
I wave, to the rest of the girls
cramped between the stage and the wall,
and Dave and I broke up.
Well, it’s good
to see you. Sharon hugs me.
The pit
begins to stir as
Bedford breaks through to the stage.
Mandy kisses me on the cheek
Pass it on.
I turn to Sharon,
hesitate,
everyone down the chain giggles,
waits
for the kiss to get to them.
First chord
incites : months
of pent up energy
explodes.
Thanks for having us,
for this first show at the new
Metro. It seems like we haven’t
seen your faces in ages.
Voices scream out
titles of favorite songs
and ones they haven’t
played in years.
He forgets
most of the words
letting the crowd fill in the
blanks.
The pit stops moving.
No one
climbs on stage to sing along
no one stage dives.
Everyone stares as
Bedford plays through the motions,
of what a set almost
used to sound like.