Russian Composers

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    Russian Composers

    Shostakovich is too;

    just like that other

    bombastic.

    Why do Russian composers

    compose unharmonious explosions?

    Like Japanese manga and animation;

    there is too much light

    and too much dark

    for me to not see

    brutal heartstrings being pulled,

    mechanically.

     

    But they do trill well

    and that is worth a lot of pennies:

    sometimes the trill is worth it all.

     

    I like them. And like to write about them.

    The losers. And a bell sounds in the distance.

    A cannon goes off.

     

    Prokofiev I love you.

    But I still think Tchaikovsky was a hack. A lovable, bombastic hack.

    Alack.

     

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    Poetry is what is lost in translation.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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