When We Are Rock Stars

i have a friend

a respectable women

a good wife and mother

who lives in a bastion

of knowledge and wealth

she is kind

of heart and deed

sometimes she comes to see me

AND WE LIVE

LIKE ROCK STARS

there is no limit to our decadence

we eat the richest deserts first then

dinner with heavy sauces

of dairy and drippings

DRINKING WINE

from the bottle without wiping

it's near escape

down our chins

WE SCREW

with reckless abandon

committing unnatural acts

in elevators of hotels

where we are not even guests

we drive to delta riverboats at three a.m.

and play blackjack and craps

I SHAKE DICE and

SHE BLOWS

on them making points the hard way

AND WE DANCE

early or late in clubs with pulsing music too loud to stand

still

AND WE DANCE ALONE

skin touching skin with no music at all

save what is in our hearts

and then after

THE FINAL CURTAIN

we are ourselves again

the homemaker and the hobo

until the next time that

WE ARE ROCK STARS