Divertimiento

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Divertimiento

Miserable little woman

in a brown coat⁠—

quit whining!

My hand for you!

We’ll skip down the tin cornices

of Main Street

flicking the dull roof-line

with our toe-tips!

Hop clear of the bank! A

pin-wheel round the white flag-pole.

And I’ll sing you the while

a thing to split your sides

about Johann Sebastian Bach,

the father of music, who had

three wives and twenty-two children.