<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420192" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Axe Concerto</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grandfather John, my mother's dad, <br>remarried later on in life.<br>When he passed on his vast wealth<br>passed largely to this second wife.<br>Thus did her children benefit<br>from the bulk of his estate.<br>My mother and my Uncle John<br>relatively little, sad to state.<br>Sometime after the internment date<br>a piano was shipped to our home.<br>A piece Step- Grandma didn't want<br>She didn't play and lived alone.<br>When my mother was a child<br>living up in Marble Hill<br>She'd learned to play the instrument<br>that now she merely wished to kill.<br>In mortal rage she grabbed an axe<br>and like a batter swung away<br>It was a fair bit of exercise<br>(She had played baseball in her day.) <br>Such sounds that spinet then produced<br>were likely never heard before.<br>such atonal melodies<br>as she ripped and smashed its core.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Axe concerto was concluded<br>when only splinters still remained<br>She went and stored the axe away-<br>After than she never played</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420192" data-title="The Axe Concerto de John F. McCullagh" data-description="Grandfather John, my mother's dad, remarried later on in life. When he passed on his vast wealth passed largely to this second wife. Thus did her children benefit from the bulk of his estate. My mother and my Uncle John relatively little, sad to ..."></div> </div> </div>

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