J.J. Campbell

at the hotel california

you’re the one 
that put the dead 
head sticker on 
a cadillac
 
ironic at best as 
you always hated 
don henley and 
never cared to 
stay at the hotel 
california
 
of all the assholes 
in this town
 
you only wanted 
to be the coolest 
one
 
the kind of guy 
that peaked in 
high school and 
missed that stage 
of life where an 
early death creates 
a legend
 
now, only a footnote
 
a funeral that can’t 
be made to on a 
tuesday night