KAROKE
(…for AJ)
It took a thousand men to get him to the Mic
And Mike, he stood on the table dancing for joy
Though it would have been better if he had danced
To his heartbeats seconds before the men conquered.
(And Tom, my beloved coward, he shook like a sewer rat in winter.)
Sweet Caroline has one thing with Elton John but
The male couple in the next table will most certainly disagree.
We are talking here of a man who had walked through landmines in
Kuwait before travelling to Cairo to take a stroll under the sea
(See, in his eyes when he is drunk they once saw a dragon spit)
Saying it is as much fun as shooting with his AK47.
And he killed it, killed the next one too
Like he stood on his toe and did a Michael Jackson
Till East Lansing came back to life and love and congratulatory hugs
He even ignored the screen and the lesbian DJ hugged too hard
But we were grateful for the dawn,
For the buckets of beer and for the echo of laugher.