It's 2026: Mike Love is on Tour, Paul McCartney was on Chicken Shop Date, & The Rolling Stones Released a New Album
all your heroes die
deaths of over
exposure or scattered
obscurity, even the ones
who made crossroad deals
with the devil in the pale
moonlight; they die doing
what they love, their fans
old & sad & grasping too hard
at past straws, the groupies
now throwing support bras
& popping arthritis pills,
riding home on mobility
scooters soon to be abandoned
in empty parking lots & yes,
sometimes the singer forgets
to move his lips to the lyrics
but that's a small price to
pay for glimpsing a memory
well past its prime & still
the music lives on even
after the flame flickers out,
no one no longer hoping
to die before they get old