Lifestyle

A song without words
is elevator music:
Just ask Grieg
or Bill Haley.
Yet a monologue without words
speaks a thousand truths
in some ancient Buddhist tradition
perhaps

James Joyce would
have been an enemy to the state
had there been one
He,
to the best of my knowledge
did not involve himself in 1916
but I'll let you do the research
if you'll pardon the name-drop
of an author I've only skimmed
like a Hollywood pool.

Last call
overdrawn
overdrawn
Like that episode of "The Twilight Zone"
which I am damn sure
is a metaphor for how we live our lives today;
I won't question whether we live
since I am trying to be upbeat
as a favor
for a long-lost love
who had great respect for Buck Mulligan
and rhyme schemes
and deadpan immortal
and putting the life in lifestyle
and putting the style in lifestyle
hence the long-lost