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    Ode to the Musician

    A deaf girl hunches over
    A splintered piano with no cords.
    Close-eyed head sways to the liquid
    Music streaming from her silent fingertips,
    Only she can hear.
    Only she can feel.

    A pair of footsteps dancing to the tango
    Of lust chasing resistance becomes
    Drowned ambience beneath the healing
    Strums of boy's thin soul.

    A single note wavers,
    Weeping for her companion
    That lay mute a bow's length away
    Resting on a fleshy pillow
    In a hardwood violin case.
    Perfectly tuned.

    So now I stand here with a pen in one hand
    And a pick in another.
    Looking out the cigar-tinted pane
    That frames the bulletproof windows
    Of the buildings that house bulletholed lives,
    And I ask myself;
    Why aren't I sad?

    But I just smile.

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    Should it not be 'why am I not sad'? Rich images, the world of senses... a great illusion, I tend to believe.

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