this is you

wire-brushing your air conditioner filter
into the bath-tub
wearing jean shorts and an old DEVO album shirt
(bulging prominently at the gut)
singing Jewel's panned millenial album
in such terrible falsetto
middle-aged white male fat belly cool

no Tom Cruise Risky Business
sexy mess teen swoon slick sick alien science
singing Bob Seger in his shorts
on the blockbuster screen

this is you
this is passion
this is real
this is life, man
halfway to the grave
and Friday night dreaming
laundry in the washer
burning the midnight candle
and a weekend full of recovery meetings
ahead