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The Actress and the Pianist

February 16, 2011
By Cotillion_Reject GOLD, Germantown, Tennessee
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Stage lights beam down,
pelt you with attention.
Isn’t she gorgeous?
No one disagrees.


You don’t play piano
but your fingers move over the keys
with false familiarity
I stop the tape and you put your hands down
Let me play you a better song.

© Cerys W., Marblehead, MA

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