Rock On

A boy at the library
Facing shelves and shelves of books
Books
books
boookS
Reading and browsing
Title after title.
He turns
Off the record.

I wrote a folk song about Irving Berlin
A little jazz rock
Bee bop
Different than your pop rock or thump thump
Boom pow.
June blues about who's Who.

In the library
with the beep beep
creak creeeeak
More books and songs and
He's still there
Browsing and reading
Title after title.

But I know that off the record secret.
An un-produced cut
Song he wrote
just between us
The secrets of folk in the library.