.
Behind the scenes
he’s every bit as much
the gentleman

you’d find in Soho Square,
who raises his hat to an empty bench

which isn’t really vacant
but cram-packed with Still Life
and Sunny Day Real Estate --

Circle Takes the Square
and Jimmy Eat World.

Face to face with a 2008 audience
he shits and spits; some reckon him,
some don’t. And the empty bench

makes room for whores
who aren’t really whores but Grey Matter
and Swing Kids, Portraits of Past.