music for an abandoned warehouse by James Morehead
July 3, 2011
music for an abandoned warehouse
by James Morehead
a splattering of applause and a low rumbling subway train drift about a recovered warehouse alcove hints of streetlight sneak through water-spotted panes mixing with filtered stagelight and settling silent on paint-speckled floorboards discordant jabs of sound fly from a frantic swaying clarinet player's squeaking feet that criss-cross a boxy platform a lonely photographer tip-toes casting tell-tale shadows his tripod carefully carried clunks while pudgy fingers focus click the shutter shuts freezing a paused spotlight a finale not released its echoey voice disappears in plastery cracks shifting floorboards and a whirring reel of tape two rows of battered buildings stand silently outside scarred by exhaust fumes flame and vandals huddled close and cold ignored by passing headlights hidden behind tattered curtains in a burnt out room lifted four stories above the alcove an older man holds his eyes to the stage tempted by a trickle of music squinting determined following grimy distorted shadowy mimes and patiently tasting his bottle of wine
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