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Saturday, July 30, 2011

"Teresa" The True Poem

"Teresa" The True Poem

Antidotes.

We met in a classroom.

She was older than me … Hell, she was older than my mother.

She was an accompanist

and before that, a concert pianist from Juliard

Even played Carnegie Hall at the age of eight

She never cared about her accomplishments.

Such a wild spirit!

And why that hand was perpetually raised that day was a mystery

She’d always blurt out of turn anyway.

Loud and boisterous, her shocking voice could jolt the dead.

Already wise, she was a

Geyser of enthusiasm to learn

She reached out to me, no…more like crashed into me,

demanding my number and insisting I come to her place for pasta.

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