Sunday, November 16, 2008
I took a great notion and a military pass
Bussed from Aberdeen to The Berbus
Music School in Baltimore. Kindly Mr.
Berbus show me a chord or 2, bemoaned I
had no practice piano. The Enlisted Men’s
club had one but I wouldn’t dare, though
I had sneaked there for breakfast.
(As basic trainees we were forbidden
to leave our area. I just placed
myself in the field between, moved
a few times like a chessman…
eventually digging into French Toast.)
Mr. Berbus had given me a paper keyboard.
I laid it atop my footlocker, practiced
for the first and last time, due
to the small crowd which gathered.
Bussed from Aberdeen to The Berbus
Music School in Baltimore. Kindly Mr.
Berbus show me a chord or 2, bemoaned I
had no practice piano. The Enlisted Men’s
club had one but I wouldn’t dare, though
I had sneaked there for breakfast.
(As basic trainees we were forbidden
to leave our area. I just placed
myself in the field between, moved
a few times like a chessman…
eventually digging into French Toast.)
Mr. Berbus had given me a paper keyboard.
I laid it atop my footlocker, practiced
for the first and last time, due
to the small crowd which gathered.
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