Sy Roth’s most recent poem to appear here was Even the Dark Night Sings the Shiva Song (July 2013).
Dumbfounded Notes
By Sy Roth
Dumbfounded Notes
By Sy Roth
Never could figure out a B flat from a C sharp,
Ear lunker that I am.
Strings to be played ape Tarzan’s yodeling cry
As he swings from branch to branch pounding his chest.
Ear lunker that I am.
Strings to be played ape Tarzan’s yodeling cry
As he swings from branch to branch pounding his chest.
Musicality raises a bedeviling head.
Like fingernails on a chalk board,
Tongues hurl discordant, lemon-sucking distaste at those notes.
Ice crystal chords that tinkle haphazardly from a frozen eave.
Then I listen to Stevie.
Fear plucking the strings again.
A Nelson Riddle not to be solved.
Perhaps biting the strings might be a better solution.
Plink or plunk.
Was that a B flat?
No one can be sure.