Cassandra dips into Brahmsian tunes
Focuses piano fingers
Grinds in hymns and lullabies
Homogenates them
Ignites gas piloted furnaces
Juggles cantaloupes
Kennels up the dogs
Loses sleep over money
Mops floors in memory of Helios
Questions foreign policy to Brahms
then
Resting her head upon my shoulder,
She sits naked on piano bench
Wrangles moderato
Underscoring sections of her journal while
Venting frustrations, most notably: me.
she writes,
“Will this fool cease his obsession with Bach?”,
X-out his fixation over Joh-whatever Sabastian?
Yes or no?” To her I am a, “Philistine Xenophobe”
The Zero hour is now.
So tonight I will be learning my Brahms.
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