[Choir] Beethoven

[Bronwyn Fryer]

Dear all, 
I thought of you today when I read this on the Writer’s Almanac. Hopefully we’ll be able to do our Music Sunday plan next year. 
love to all
Bronwyn

What Beethoven's Music Will Do to You
by Bill Holm

Listen long enough,
you'll go stone deaf,
your body grow squat
from eating only
fish and brown sausages
washed down with hock.
Christen your sister-in-law
Queen of the Night, then
take her to court. Break
all the piano's strings,
howl and mutter and brood.
It'll do you no good.
He already wrote this music,
made it into the mirror
that always shows you
the back side of yourself
that you only imagined before.
Now you'll want to write
King Lear, paint The Last Supper,
rebuild the Parthenon.
That's how it always goes—
nose to nose with magnitude.

 
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