Music Makes Me

When I hear

Putting The Dog To Sleep

play on the radio,

I make

whimpering sounds

while hiding

half of who I am

deep inside

my kitchen cabinet.

I'm always in the kitchen

making love

to bread that never rises,

listening to sad songs

on Spotify

while crying over

recipes that didn't work.

When I hear

a car pull up, I get antsy-

press play

on my boogaloo playlist-

run hard

into the other room

where the guns are kept.

Grenade fever, FBI.

Songs to die to.

I wonder, do others

love music

the same way I do?

When I hear

choir girls sing,

I stop

everything I'm doing

and look up!

At the light bulb

I forgot to change

last week.