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The Thirties, Bartok Plays the Piano,
Attila Jozsef is in the Audience
by Otto Orban
silence music
silence music
silence music
melody
f i r e s t r i n g
between
sound and sound and
sound
in the center of a flood of light
on a piano stool
his fingers run up and down on the keyboard
thunders and whispers
the dumb howl in response to the act
the ecstasy
the suffering
the instinct
the mind forest builder
fidgets and trembles invents the plummet
a swishing tree branch with a ruler cunningly
the sun's panther-like patterns measure up god's light beams
feverish lava on silky fur robs the master
shiver he also builds a heavenly dome
behind locked up from rock and choir
crushing eyelashes from organ point
he is the one who can ride the demons
the soul
the smoke
without him
the empire of space theory would collapse
cannibals dance around the fire
ladies and gentlemen
it's not the piano that rumbles,
but the earth shaking sensing her end.
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