AT THE ACADEMY CONCERT
Last night we heard Beethoven’s
“War and Peace” sonata
(Or so I choose to call it):
Brief interludes of harmony
Give way to the clash of arms.
And then the “Blitzkrieg Waltz”
(Though he himself denies it):
The dimly heard Valse by Ravel
Drowned out by war’s alarums.
It seems this new generation
Of promising high school students
Does not expect peace in their time.
And those of us in our nineties
Suspect that they are right.
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