The Song Museum

Poem

Here are the rooms of the ones
that moved you.
Across the hall,
The Gallery of the Catchy
But Not Crucial.

The guards' coats,
sprinkled with tiny guitars.

Here a screen shows,
for each of us,
where we were, what we were doing,
the first time we heard
particular numbers.
A sign reads
>>KEY IN TITLE>>

And the conversation--
that low melody--
surprising how sorrowful
it often is:

When she left me
it was so bad
I couldn't stand
to even listento the radio

The Hendrix Room
is silent.
Wood benches,
where we sit wondering.

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