<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Musician's Wife</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between the visits to the shock ward<br>The doctors used to let you play<br>On the old upright Baldwin<br>Donated by a former patient<br>Who is said to be quite stable now. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all day long you played Chopin,<br>Badly and hauntingly, when you weren't<br>Screaming on the porch that looked<br>Like an enormous birdcage. Or sat<br>In your room and stared out at the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You never looked at me at all.<br>I used to walk down to where the bus stopped<br>Over the hill where the eucalyptus trees<br>Moved in the fog, and stared down<br>At the lights coming on, in the white rooms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And always, when I came back to my sister's<br>I used to get out the records you made<br>The year before all your terrible trouble,<br>The records the critics praised and nobody bought<br>That are almost worn out now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, sometimes I wake in the night<br>And hear the sound of dead leaves<br>against the shutters. And then a distant<br>Music starts, a music out of an abyss,<br>And it is dawn before I sleep again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Weldon+Kees">Weldon Kees</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=535740" data-title="A Musician's Wife de Weldon Kees" data-description="Between the visits to the shock ward The doctors used to let you play On the old upright Baldwin Donated by a former patient Who is said to be quite stable now. And all day long you played Chopin, Badly and hauntingly, when you weren't Screaming..."></div> </div> </div>

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