Disco Baby Lemonade

shag carpet swims across the room and a thousand reflections of Me dance, arms up, shoulders swinging opposite of hips, chin high and nodding to the trumpets...feels so good...feels so good...night and morning blend in purple and teal, the hours stealthily passing while the music breathes around the party...

and tumbling downward toward the stairs i wake years later with this memory held above my head, of a rock star life that once was led