rocking too hard

rocking too hard --
doing business with ghosts
paving your dreams
with sweat and cocaine
taking ghosts to the minimall
under cover of night
to shop at the dollar store
tying scarves to the
proverbial microphone pole
under a hair cover
signing ghostly autographs
at the virgin autoplex
carving symbols of virility
into your face
under cover of drugs
under cover of dreams
ghostly fills
shadowy licks
wailing, hardcore wraiths
look:
you can live the dream, kid
the ghosts are real
if you rock too hard