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<DIV><SPAN class=046540218-26052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Garrison Keillor read this on his his radio program "The Writers Almanac"
just last Wednesday. Hear his wonderful reading of it here:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/05/21/#wednesday">http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/05/21/#wednesday</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=046540218-26052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>--
Geoff Sykes</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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Assoc. Los Angeles</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Annie Grieshop<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 25, 2007 11:45 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Pianotech List<BR><B>Subject:</B> A bit of poesy (was OLD
PIANO)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=328363718-25052007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>A friend just sent this to me -- seemed appropriate for the Old
Piano discussion.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=328363718-25052007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>by Howard Nemerov, past U.S. Poet Laureate</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=328363718-25052007><STRONG>To His Piano<BR><BR></STRONG>Old
friend, patient of error as of accuracy,<BR>Ready to think the fingerings of
thought,<BR>You but a scant year older than I am<BR>With my expectant mother
expecting maybe<BR>An infant prodigy among her stars<BR>But getting only
little me instead–<BR><BR>To see you standing there for six
decades<BR>Containing chopsticks, Fur Elise, and <BR>The Art of Fugue in your
burnished rosewood box,<BR>As well as all those years of silence and<BR>The
stumbling beginnings the children made,<BR>Who would believe the twenty tons
of stress<BR>Your gilded frame's kept stretched out all this
while?</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=328363718-25052007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Annie Grieshop</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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