Echo from the Basement

April 18, 2016 — #NaPoWriMo, home, poem, poetry, sounds

the ‘Burgh in fall

basement, childhood home

The player piano gave everyone an entertaining head start on talent and poise

Peddling the notes through the coded chads any pianist could master the score

Paper teleprompter on the rolls fed the lyrics to the sing along crowd that enjoys

Cocktails, 50’s style appetizers on toothpicks, formally dressed couples took the floor

Party people full of stories, laughing hard at my father’s jokes while my mother annoys

The intellectual, conversational, suburban, name dropping group always trying to score

Her lack of guile and singular style in party planning and in life, showed her taste

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