do you see the poetry of me?
the sad arc of time
the death of music
and the heartbreak
of the abandoned muse

do you get the joke of this
that the delusion lasted this long
that it took
decades
to see that life
is all that it is
and not what it seems
in songs

well, no matter.
the poetry joke stands
and the longer i'm sober
the funnier
it all is