red booth
review
issue s16een
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Beethoven's Birthday
Beethoven's birthday today
but there's no
music in this city,
only the rumblings of trailer
trucks, the hissings
of smokestacks spewing soot.
No robins chirping or children
playing;
no wolves howling or
water splashing; no notes rising
from violin strings.
Only this wind
rushing, like a jilted bride
from the altar,
through the leafless trees
blowing dirt and dark clouds
into heaven, and sounding
like it might sound at the end
of time.
- Michael Estabrook
| Michael is in his mid-fifties and just
got his first tattoo! So now there are two romantic red roses (drawn by
his wife) nestled in a bed of green leaves perched on his left shoulder. |
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