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Music: the art

        of love of beauty of smiling
        to the world your story your
        vision your finger
        print

of organizing

        dance steps and pictures and
        administrative meetings and
        lost socks to find their soul
        mates

tones to produce

        darkness to produce stars to
        tell that special girl how
        her hair glows like wheat
        to produce a house to raise
        her kids in and produce my
        dinner

a coherent

        rhythm fall of words
        rain the ships at
        port and bells churches
        voices in unison hands
        clapping

sequence of sounds

        sequence of faces in a
        crowd sequence of numbers
        to tell the world lights a
        sequence of memories that
        fade a sequence of words that say
        love

intended to elicit

        wine and glass dinners
        in a rented tux and
        her momma's old wedding
        dress to hear some old
        guy's last wisdom and ice
        sculptures

an aesthetic response

        a dim response a yes
        response back up in my
        crowded musician's pad
        crowded with score sheets
        and a big piano on
        top

from the listener.

        from the birds from the
        landlord on the first of
        the month from the credit
        card companies from the
        orchestras the fake
        singers and her
        parents

Rhythmic,

        he's a charming
        boy they'll say
        classy

melodious,

        
        like her laughter
        and the fountain
        in the park where
        sleek boys chase
        pigeons

harmonious

        on the piano
        again the chords
        muffled for thin
        walls and paper thin
        splattered with my
        dreams

or dissonant.

        like the fading evening
        candles stuck in
        bottles that once
        drank five-dollar
        wine



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