Room Service

Room Service

there are riffs in the carpet

the shag is stained and dripping

red from a perfectly halcyon ceiling

the beat goes on

but the drum beats

become rapid percussion

and the guitar starts to sound out of tune

then a mum expression

before cowboy boots retreating

nearby planes accelerate

like the bodies falling

or scaling walls

this will never become a live album

the screaming fans within the vinyl grooves

would definitely cause the CD to skip

and skip

and skip

the maid waiting to clean the room

as heaven waits 

tapping its feet.

erin-cilberto

10/4/17

Reviews

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

“As heaven waits..tapping its feet”..Your words sad, tragic, vitriolic all at once. “ This will never become a live album”-stunning, deeply moving. Inter-woven Imagery of music and slaughter. Profound memorial to Las Vegas victims. R.I.P. “When will it ever change?”...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, Annette.
j.

[Sami Khalil]

A sad tragedy and massacre of the worst kind. It affected and still affects the thousands of people. All prayers and good thoughts are with them. An excellent expression on this event, sir Jacob.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Sami...it is just horrific what happens much too often these days...such senseless acts.
appreciate your kind words.

[Sami Khalil]

All true. God help us. You are welcome.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

I now deplore the sound of news casters on the tele these days. I cringe and shutter like their cameras..a world gone mad...lives gone wrong...all about controlling hate....I sit here daily and try so hard to love but my heart just cries instead...Great work J!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Queenie...and i feel the same.

j.

[BBP]

Nice tribute J.
So sad when senseless deaths occur.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, BBP----

j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I feel the regret of Las Vegas as the country and western fans are assaulted from a hotel room which ordinarily might see a different sort of action. The rapid percussion now haunts us as we hear it on the newsreels and understand the confusion that allowed carnage to continue so long.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, John.
j.