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user-inactivated  ·  3603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: Put on the Music

    Not always, but sometimes, when I put on some music

    I save the world

    Even though it didn't need any saving.

    Sometimes when I put on some music

    I wonder what it would sound like

    If I were a different person.

    Or how the music would sound

    If I was the musician

    Playing myself

    Or itself playing me

    I can't be sure.

    My music isn't made by long haired men

    With assorted guitars of different sorts.

    I can't get nostalgic about "those days"

    On the field with a girl that I don't know

    Sitting in a car I don't have

    That I can't afford.

    My music, however

    Let's me strut into any room

    Like a peacock with dark feathers

    But one that shifts uncomfortably on the bus

    Wondering if anyone heard.

    I hope not.