Sing Me A Song, You’re The Piano Man Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he’s talkin’ with Davy who’s still in the navy
And probably will be for life

Billy Joel is not a real estate novelist but he loves making love to tonic and gin,
Or Scotch or Bourbon.
He had a difficult time being married, he is single again.
Billy will take a shot from a liquor called loneliness.
Maybe he was hooking up with some waitress that contributed to making him stoned.
I wonder if Joel ever paid for his drinks till this day,
-or does he get them for free?
I guess there are Johns around.
Who knows?
I saw Billy in concert,25-6 years ago, if my memory holds up well,
When I wore a younger men’s clothes.
My partner Joe and I used to perform your song on many of Saturday nights,
And the manager would give us a smile,
For he knows that the crowd was coming to see B and R* for while,
When Joe and I wore younger men’s clothes.
So Billy you had better straighten up for your kids and yourself,
Because, if not, I’m afraid that you would shuffling in on a Saturday night,
Into a bar, and ask the piano man to sing a song,
Because your too drunk or catching the eye of an eighteen year old waitress,
Who you want to meet.
Would you say, “I’m not really sure how it goes
But it’s sad and its sweet and I knew it complete”…..?
It’s like writing your own destiny.
Has your music become your navy?
Elizabeth Weber (9 years) , Christie Brinkley, (9 years) ,
And at last 5 years with Katie Lee.
Maybe you can write a song “They’re always a Woman to Me”,
Or maybe they could conspire and co-write a tune,
“Just the Way You Aren’t”
“Honesty” is what you weren’t!
They would say.
“You’re My Home” is what you can call your house.
If you ever get home without killing yourself after you had hit a tree.
Let there be no doubt,
You’ll in fact be leaving this world because your soul would be “Movin’ Out”.

(6-18-09)
*the writer was from the group Borkowski and Rosochacki. ‘B and R’ entertained audiences for twenty years in the Metro-Detroit area, from 1981-2001.