Jukebox Requiem

ANGIE, that last slow dance in smoky haze— you slipped UNDER MY THUMB like twilight’s ache. The Rolling Stones crooned fate through tangled days; I tried to PAINT IT BLACK for mercy’s sake. But YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT—truth stings— just loaded TUMBLIN DICE in neon towns, chasing HONKY TONK WOMEN on borrowed wings while WILD HORSES dragged dreams to thorny grounds. O RUBY TUESDAY, ghost in sequin sheen, your laugh a roulette wheel’s bright, spinning sound. The jukebox plays what might-have-been, where every win was loss, and lost was found. Stones still roll… but honey, in the end, the house takes all. Even diamonds bend.