The Piano Has Been Trying to Kill Me
by Logan K. Young
When I wasyounger,
I was sore afraid—
petrified of the
piano.I lived in constant fear:
A
string would pop,
it ’d recoil back towards me,
and I would be decapitated.Instantly!
Even now ,
I refuse to sit at an upr ight…
and I’ll only play a baby grand if the lid‘s fully
clos ed.
About the Author:
Logan K. Young is editor-in-chief at Classicalite.com. A student of Thurston Moore at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, his poetry and criticism have since appeared in 3:AM, Proliferate and Cormac McCarthy’s Dead Typewriter. Young’s newest collection of verse, I(<3)U!: A Factorial Chapbook, is out now.
