Verse of the day: The pianist upstairs
mainFrom Erika Funkauser’s poem, in The Atlantic:
The world’s at war and he breaks into Brahms
tonight—an intermezzo one might hum
to lull a child or coax to life numb
nerves after a round of deafening bombs…
… Read the full poem here.
And send a copy to your elected representative.
A rhymer. Picture’s more poetic than poem.
I wanted to disagree with you, so I read the poem.
Turns out you were correct all along.