Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins

Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 978-0-307-43174-5
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

4

I am doing my scales,

the familiar anthems of childhood.

My fingers climb the ladder of notes

and come back down without turning around.

Anyone walking under this open window

would picture a girl of about ten

sitting at the keyboard with perfect posture,

not me slumped over in my bathrobe, disheveled,

like a white Horace Silver.

5

I am learning to play

“It Might As Well Be Spring”

but my left hand would rather be jingling

the change in the darkness of my pocket

or taking a nap on an armrest.

I have to drag him into the music

like a difficult and neglected child.

This is the revenge of the one who never gets

to hold the pen or wave good-bye,

and now, who never gets to play the melody.

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