If I could have attained artistry early in life, on an instrument
I think I would have led a life of music, and married
A viola, or flute, or even bass-viol player
As it is, I am grateful to have learned piano
(better late, than never)
I learned up to seventh hand position on cello
And was in the Junior State Orchestra
I never claimed to be a virtuoso at all
no Pablo Casals or Yo-yo Mah
(When your instrument is neither German, nor Italian
But a four hundred dollar “Kay”, carried around in
A cheap cloth carrying case
Its hard to think of your next career move as music fated.)
I’ve studied music from a score,
and have even waved a baton, in a conducting class --
Though conducting in front of a Panasonic
is not quite the same thrill, I’m sure.
Of leading the Bolshoi opera or ballet, or even the Philarmonic.
Nonetheless, I freely admit, writing music is the most
Beautiful thing I’ve done with my life, and with that I am elated.
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