San Jose Symphony Reception

Narrated by Bill Wolak

New Jersey

SAN JOSE SYMPHONY RECEPTION 

(Flagrante delicto)

 

The bald man in plaid playing the harpsichord 

stopped short and sidled over 

to the sideboard 

and copped a piece of Moka 

on a silver plate 

and slid back and started playing again 

some kind of Hungarian rhapsodate 

while the lady with the green eyeshades 

leaned over him exuding 

admiration & lust 

Hall notes danced & tumbled 

out of his instrument 

exuding a faint odor of 

chocolate cake 

In the corner I was taking 

a course in musical destruction 

from the dark lady cellist 

who bent over me with her bow unsheathed 

and proceeded to saw me in half 

As a consequence my pants fell right off 

revealing a badly bent trombone which 

even the first flutist 

who had perfect embouchure 

couldn’t straighten out