here's what music can do

waiting long, outside the gate, I told a keyboardist
"your music has helped me write many english papers"

and he replied, "if you help one person write a term paper,
you've helped the entire world get a PhD, it goes something like that."

another night, I quietly held a pen towards a guitarist, who asked,
"what exactly do you want?" and he laughed.

"I like to make people ask me directly for an autograph,"
then he signed "yo! -TL" and we shared a sense of victory.

if I drank tonight, I'd drink too much—for the other, empty end
of a booth, for the headache, and for the music.