billy joel > elton john by John Grochalski

i am drunk
and i am tired
and the world has had
its way with me again
 
sometimes i type things
into the internet void
just to see what happens
 
it’s like fishing
 
sometimes other people will bite
 
they’ll yell at me
i’ll yell at them
they’ll yell at each other
 
tired and drunk people
who the world has had its way with
 
wasting their precious hours
of personal time
 
when it dies down i’ll write
 
oh yeah, but billy joel
wrote his own songs
 
then they’ll yell at me again
i’ll yell at them

they’ll yell at each other

ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS 

until it’s time to go to bed
and pass out
 
wake up to a world
that’ll again have its way with us
 
wondering what in the world
we were all so pissed about

last night.

 John Grochalski is the author of the poetry collections, The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out (Six Gallery Press 2008), Glass City (Low Ghost Press, 2010), In The Year of Everything Dying (Camel Saloon, 2012), Starting with the Last Name Grochalski (Coleridge Street Books, 2014), and The Philosopher’s Ship (Alien Buddha Press, 2018). He is also the author of the novels, The Librarian (Six Gallery Press 2013), and Wine Clerk (Six Gallery Press 2016).  Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where the garbage can smell like roses if you wish on it hard enough.