What a What a strangling to be caught in To be here To be in Berlin with Vienna so near Yet so far from the ear What a and impossible sum To be old while to still be so To have sung before speaking a To be To be to fail To be To but to be so naive To trust and to be so To mourn, forlorn, to be torn you Scorned for another who suffers no To curse God, seeking And to be ignored To hide in room, now too rich to afford To hear armies of bang at the door Always yelling for And to have to sell that could help Except for the Steinway that sits in the
For Arthur it all too easily To learn the in every key To the etudes and the suites The nocturnes and The To master the sonatas, minuets, and To seek the fits and starts To the middle F like it's an arrow through the heart To wing the hand like a dove
(the peaceful flutter of a dove) And with left a violent shove
(some moments will a shove) To needle gently yet relentless with a steady foot upon the And to clench the iron first inside the glove To learn to whisper and to (the justifies the scream) To let each yearning breathe (no, lives unless it breathes) To burn, to worship, to To pose a question with a on a key To flee, to fight, to To in air Nothing underneath To rap those heavy knuckles on the gate to til there's nothing to Achieve, but To go retrieve the length of cable hidden in the To metamorphasize the twisted rope an alphabet To lay the lazy C upon the shabby floor to rest To the end across the top and bend the C into an S To the tail beneath the S to turn the tangle to a B To hug the wretched root around the fibers To wrap again to again to give the coil seven loops To penetrate the yawning To tug the loose appendage To yank the until it's ready for the job
it's got to do To toss the braid above the ceiling beam and to the noose To bid adieu to all of there's nothing left to do but Climb the To the collar the edge To step the air