New story next week!
Life as a Movie
Every life needs a soundtrack,
I thought.
Charlotte Bronte:
Haydn's concertante
for oboe and bassoon
Allegro and Andante
with a spare meal at noon
Profusion of foreplay
from sad, obelisk strings
Short-lived, yet hopeful
climax soft sings
in B-Flat
and that's that.
Jane Austen:
Don Giovanni
or The Marriage of Figaro
Teasing melody
Romance and Rondo
vestal maidens
in the thrill and thrall
of gentrified satyrs
at the country ball
in Edenic fervor
with astute observer
Me:
Mahalia, Percy Sledge,
Mingus and why wait?
Sinatra, Ray,
& Bonnie Raitt.
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