Musical Depreciation

If you have time on your hands
and nothing much to do
(no plane to catch or appointments to keep,
perhaps stuck in a small motel room
on-route to nowhere special).

Then allow me to recommend listening to
a Mahler or Bruckner interminable symphony.
Your whole life will unroll before you
yet seem but a fleeting minute of purgatory.

You will have climbed a mountain in your mind,
a peak which was probably too high
and not worth it.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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