#NPM2018: Prompt 20

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1. Your fingers run lightly
   over the keys, a Sonata
   in C, I believe, as passersby
   hear but don’t listen.
   I sit, outside your frame,
   watching your body
   sway in time to the rhythm
   of some long-ago memory,
   a postcard wrapped up
   in song.

   — Kevin

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2. Piano Lessons

   I never got piano lessons.
   save for music videos of
   rock stars banging
   melodies.

   I never got piano lessons
   save for a keyboard at Christmas
   that I used to learn what
   Bossa Nova means

   I never got piano lessons
   but in a pinch
   I can play three chords in
   busted rhythms.

   I never got piano lessons
   though my steering wheel bears the scars
   of all the finest piano rock
   played at high volume.

   At a fork in my quantum self
   there’s a me with three/five/seven years of experience
   playing and trying and exploring and
   being a piano guy.
   I’m third shift at all the places
   I never get to go to anymore.

   I forego the tip jar and just play from the heart.
   On my steering wheel
   three chords
   in busted rhythms.
   And it’s enough.

   My daughters get piano lessons.

   — Bud Hunt
   April 21st, 2018
   https://www.evernote.com/l/AAGTyKtCHLxJqJ2DbY0xQqAQDLHikgNrTCg

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