The club went out of business
The audience stopped showing up
They talked throughout the acts
They sat at the bar in ignorance
They didn’t applaud the end of the song
They doom scrolled the night away
Outside there was no line
Outside the walls were clean of posters
Outside there were no bouncers
Outside there were no ticket scalpers
Outside there was no illegal merch touts
Outside there were no marquee lights
In the community we all grew isolated
In the community we sang only to ourselves
In the community we distrusted our neighbours
In the community we had to go it alone
In the community we forgot how to harmonize
In the community our melodies grew discordant
The club went out of business
The audience stopped showing up
The wind carried a song
no one remembered
From the prompt “The wind carried a song no one remembered”
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