I Love You All the Same

the frontman sings
with his eyes closed
visibly affected by the lyrics

he wears
a beard and a moustache
the colour of
chestnut, what I'm trying
to say is that he's
handsome, the way

he holds the guitar
and the main stream
of attention
at the microphone

meanwhile
the other guy
plays the guitar with his eyes
half
open, he came through the

back door, maybe, I wasn't
there when the song had
started

on his eyelids he's wearing
dark grey
eyeshadows

he also used a black
eyeliner to make
the borders obvious
to the crowd

what the song is not about
is a story within the story

that's what I'm after

poem writing

Once upon a time there was
a fixed set of
images and notions

tirelessly rearranged
through time
by yet another
fixed set of fingers

the images will keep
on meeting the notions,
they'll keep
coming back

in a novel combination
sure

to be
dismantled

as another newborn poet
is waiting
in line

the concert

the band's performing for a
U Tube audience
in a sepia brown
room, in kind of a castle

or a castle image

there are rabbits
walking on the floor
in vain search
of a bite
of grass

the Sun has agreed
to shine through the
window straight
onto the stage

one of the rabbits

is going to write the third
stanza, I'm going to
press

play again

(12:52)