2025. június 20., péntek

Adam Wyeth: Silent Music

People paid money to watch
someone seat himself
by a grand piano
without playing a single note.

The musician, as if in deep meditation,
didn't even lift the piano lid.
Then after nearly twenty minutes
he got up and left.

But somebody else
had already done the same thing.
Thus he sued this composer
for plagiarising his piece of silence

and won the case.
So as I sit here this evening --
the light low and everything quiet --
I listen to the silence

that plays all around me
in my room, wondering
if I've heard this piece before --
and who it belongs to.

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