Back when I played
a cover of a Def Leppard song
in a band in a bar, it was funny to tuck

one arm inside my shirt and cop the groove
one-handed. People laughed (which
makes them complicit).

Whereas now I’d be
cancelled – what’s left of whatever
it is I do and whoever it is I think that I am

might be cancelled right now just for
admitting this (that’ll give me
the chance for a sleep-in).