Rocking

Originally posted 11/16/2012.

I am rocking out to music 
that once upon a time
I would have said sounded
like a series
of mistakes

Must be getting old
rocking out 
sober clean cool
tweed up
flannel down

I can rock out to anything
now that no one’s looking

Rocking out
in my empty living room
Rocking out with this
whatever its label
However many strings it has
However its hair looks

Had hoped once to die
before I got old
What a damn fool I was
I would have missed
rocking out
to a series of mistakes

I would have died afraid of mistakes