“What are they called?”

[normalise writing poetry at gigs]

They’re all trying to make it

A terrible thought launched to the forefront of my mind

A thought I can’t shake, as I stand behind-

The merch stand, show a little bra to sell more of his merch

The sound guy by me is in a bit of a lerch 

Bassists gone flying into the drums

Chaos rehearses itself,

a soundtrack for ambition.

They’re all trying to make it

“You know Roze?”

I know Roze “how do you know Roze?”

Funny how a name becomes a meaning,

passed around in dim-lit back rooms.

But ironically this is how “the way things go”

They’re all trying to make it

I’m trying to ‘make it’

But for now I’ll stand by the merch stand

Hoping these T-shirts would sell out

The guitarist on stage has a kink for barking

He’s in the green room hopes still sparking

Wishing his dreams weren’t stitched to mine

God I hope his merch sells

He’s just trying to make it

We’re all trying to make it 

But for now, I stand here, battling Zettle

We’re all just clinging to the same threadbare hope—

that maybe, this time, the someone notices.








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