Beethoven is for the Birds

Beethoven is for the Birds

So this bird outside my window,

is an aspiring musician

The evidence is undeniable

FOR EXAMPLE....

Upon overhearing the

Appassionata 

(That's spanish for passionate sonata)

he metered his song

in an unnatural

common time

Practicing these illusive regular rhythms

over and over 

obsessively 

purposelessly

you! who defy gravity

galvanized by a melody?

child in the treetops

homesick for tonality?

Dopesick for a cadence?

He will never build a nest

out of his hard-earned do-re-mi

but he's my favorite modern composer

if only for his sincerity

we are both up late

because neither of us ever cared much for 

the taste of worms

Author's Note

noted for reviewers