18. 21st CENTURY MAN AWAKENED BY 18TH CENTURY MUSIC

21st CENTURY MAN AWAKENED BY

18TH CENTURY MUSIC

There's something disconcerting about that -

like a video repairman wearing armor or an

astronaut wearing spats : nothing real precise

but something like that.

We probably should wear our own times like

a well-fitted suit, shoulders in place, arms just right.

Yet, so often, it doesn't happen - great-grandma

in ill-fitting clothing from forty years before :

the style was high and the look was right; but

that was all so long ago. Now, rubberized reasons

contain our every fault : we must fit today's cloth

as a razor fits a face. The alternative is nothing at

all - be laughed at, perhaps, like a cow in a sheep's

stall.

When dawn rose up, the music came on.

I knew it from when, but from when was gone.