horn music

Horn Music

In the late forties and middle fifties 
horn music and military marches tunes
were often parlayed in the town's park 
and we lived nearby and bore the brunt
of this noisy music
to complain was not easy as the music
was seen as an expression of freedom 
chasing the German army out of our 
cherished country, admittingly with 
the help of the Russian army, the 
British took the credit
Horn music is simply horrible to enjoy
the noise one has to be unmusical 
one would think the noise had stopped
with the arrival of modernity, rock and roll
and Elvis Priestly, but no
I was invited in the eighties to read a poem 
in Oslo. When my turn came to read 
the horn orchestra struck up.

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