music ends next week
radios will look dumb
jukeboxes impossible to explain
colored vinyl pretty but mysterious
tell your kids that justin timberlake
was a famous chimneysweep
lady gaga a soup
that prisoners ate
michael jackson a disgraced army general
compact discs the leading killer
of dolphins and octopi
instead of happy birthday
we squeeze our faces and moan
that piano an abstract sculpture
guitars turned in like guns
people will be sad for a few days
but they’ll get extra money
to put in their leather pouches
and look at
any time they want to
sometimes people will try to remember
what a song was
but it will feel impossible
to shape the air like
something that could make you cry
Note: When I looked up the plural of octopus, it said it is acceptable to use octopi or octopuses.