I wake up humming
a song from 1984
I sing later in the shower

flashback to
Lauper’s orange hair
& brilliant eyeshadow

rasping my ears
like a happy
raucous parrot

girls just wanna have fun

I guess I still do

though now I claim jazz
& classical
as favorites

the intellectual flights
& pauses

hide old vinyl
in the back of my closet

where it belongs