Burt, Hal, Dionne

and anyone else who

performed your music through

the 1980s-

Two words for those fatter royalty checks:

You're welcome.

And thank you for the soundtrack

which saw me through a hapless life.

And for being there  when my heart was breaking.

You see this guy?

I wish I would have played

that song.

That's how it was in February, but August?

Just the odds and ends of a beautiful affair.

Why did birds suddenly appear

Every time she was near?

One year, close to you,

the next in different home rooms

What's it all about, high school?

The last of the happy love songs.

You'll never get to heaven

(tell it to the banker),

Always something there to remind me

(travelogues at the Shrine?).

there was one of those girls

the Blue Seas music men

could never put in my mind

the look?

Her grin turned me on,

but she was too innocent,

A Girl Scout.

Someone else wrote a song

about her since  I knew her with

those sand and shovels.

"L" is for the way 

you look at me,

Sorry, wrong Burt.