IMPROVISATION# 107
ON MOZART'S BIRTHDAY

We did not expect
an extended invitation
to party
on January the 27th
to celebrate Mozart's birthday
and now a new month
is here
we are watching BZ's play
of the same name
drinking but never thinking
of the less than cheerful
dreadful Salieri
as BZ had three such persons
to reveal in his life
merely to ignore
or deal with
after all their secret strife
in a finale and chorus
forming lines
from the theater hallways
to be concealed from us
with their tragic
and forbidden regrets,
for genius has to share
only his soul in a hidden root
he always laughs them off
as in "The Magic Flute."