Bearded Ballads 20/30: MILST

I now know

how you feel.

This is worse

than being asked

to play country music.

Ironic,

after covering

“Story of My Life.”

Or Springsteen

considering the last three

were his

you just failed to pay attention.

“Downtown Train”

Tom Waits, not Rod Stewart,

sung to a bunch of doctors

who have yet to notice

we’ve repeated the same line

ten times now.

No.

Being begged

to play “Wagon Wheel”

three times

by three different women

in under an hour

gets old the first time asked.