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Todd Cirillo
The Best Time For Country Music
 
No bouquet of flowers
will fix this break,
nor any amount
of wine, whiskey
or new women.
 
Only
the road,
Waylon Jennings
and you
 
singing,
all the places
must be better
than the ones
we’ve left behind.”
 

 
Stranded
(if poets were cannibals)
 
I’m so hungry for love,
I swear,
I’ll eat the next
woman I see.

Night Moves


Walking these familiar streets;
the town is preparing for Christmas,
music comes from outdoor speakers,
decorations hang
on the same steps,
streetlights
and bars
where I was once King.
Now, I’m a tourist
stopping in for a drink,
a look at the old house,
keeping an eye out
for ex-lovers
on a mission,
sitting down alone
with only a beer
and Bob Seger
singing,
Ain’t it funny how you remember?”
 


My Booking Agent Bill
 
He asked me to check out
a new gallery in town,
as a potential gig;
walk around,
get a feel for the place..”
 
So I went,
it was the official opening,
gorgegous,
all class, pomp
and circumstance
with lots of expensive art,
beautiful women
and free wine.
 
I had a wonderful time.
 
He called
days after meeting
with the owners.
 
Told me,
It went pretty smooth
until I mentioned your name.
To put it politely,
they remember you....
and it seems they are
all booked up
for the foreseeable future.”


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