Contrary Motion by Mozina Andy

Author:Mozina, Andy [Mozina, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-03-07T23:00:00+00:00

He gives me a crooked grin.

I smile, but not too much.

“Would you play me something?” he asks.

“Sure,” I say. “Whatever you want.”

“Surprise me,” he says.

I bring the harp in and take a look around the room for clues as to what he might like. His windowsills are filled with plants, and there’s an antique lamp on his nightstand. Next to the lamp, there’s an autographed black-and-white head shot of, if I’m not mistaken, Paul Lynde, the snarky, barely closeted center square on the old Hollywood Squares show. There are other homey touches—an afghan thrown over the recliner, a chalky portrait on the wall of someone who very well might be Michael, an old movie poster for The Poseidon Adventure that has a prominent image of Shelley Winters swimming in her bra and panties.

I take him at his word and play the unexpected “Don’t Fence Me In,” which makes him smile with half his mouth.

“I am surprised,” he says, and he nods.

The picture of Paul Lynde sends me deep into my collection of cheesy pop. I play him some Partridge Family—“I Think I Love You,” which gets Michael moving his shoulders slightly, as if dancing in bed.

I try a classical piece, Handel’s Harp Concerto in B Flat, and he seems to like it.

“How about some opera?” I ask.

“Don’t I have to love opera?”

“No.”

“Well, I do. I love everything. That’s my problem.”

After I finish the Overture to Verdi’s La forza del destino, which is on the St. Louis list, he brings his fingertips across his lap and pats them together.

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