Friday, May 17, 2024

Music for breakfast? April 16, 2012

  



 

Most people don’t keep pianos in their kitchen

Though with her it waits for her to cook up a tune

Some cover by somebody I wouldn’t know

It was not the Beatles, and if I wanted Beatles

I wouldn’t dare make light of the instrument,

I’m jealous, wishing I could have a piano in my kitchen, too,

(I have one in my bedroom) where I fiddle with the keys,

Desperate to come up with anything remotely musical,

An inspired love song, or at least, a song I could hum

While I walked to and from work each day.

Music gets into people’s blood, they say

And anyone who keeps a piano where they eat

Must ingest musical notes like vitamin pill

Until their blood boils over with something close to music,

I wish I could make a meal of Mozart or Choplin

Or some other great artist, where I might get a bit of them

In my blood the way she clearly has.

 


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