LONE QUEST 1972

A MAN AND WOMAN ON HOLIDAY WITH CHOPIN'S GHOST IN 1972

It's Chopin
Abela
informs me

the music's
from the old
radio

in our room
some foreign
cheap hotel

hark! Benny
just listen
to this part

(I was just
about to
undo her

plentiful
brassiere)
I listen

the pianist
(I don't know
who it was)

has stopped me
in mid play
listening

as the sound
of fingers
on keyboard

bring to life
Chopin's ghost
my pecker

has neither
ears nor eyes
doesn't hear

and stirs still
like some lone
seaman there

upon his quest
in rough seas
unaware

the crew's left.