Sunday, October 4, 2020

Broken Keys



The city traffic keeps going like a bicycle chain, and the clowns in the circus walk on giant
beach balls. I never look out the window, but it makes no odds, the thing keeps going.

Whoa, she played till the keys were flying off the piano like slates in a hurricane;
avalanche of blades in dust; will she be there when it stops, I wondered; she was, picking
crystals from a lunar landscape that, for all the world, were bits of her broken surface.

That night a meteorite, flashing across the sky, stopped above my house to wonder
where it was headed. In that few seconds, it lost its momentum, the flame went out
and I saw it no more.

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