This Music Bites
Its Strident And Crude
But Wakes Up A Body
With Its Atonal Tunes
It Scratches
Like Knives On A Board
It Cuts You
Into Segmented Seventh Chords
It Hurts You
It Chills You Inside
I Like That I Feel It
It Takes Tears That I Cry
Its Alive
I Detest The Classics
With Their Soft Violins
Their Smooth Stillborn Strings
With Their Perfect Parallel Wings
I Deplore The Viola With Her Velvet Vibrato
She Puts Me To Sleep
In My Soul Nothing Echoes
I Hate Her Voice With Its Bel Canto Feel
I Hate Her Fond Formants
They Crinkles My Ears
I Detest The Clarinet
Which Gives Me Regret
With Its Vanilla High C’s And Its Creamy E’s And Flat B’s
Give Me The Strident
That Which Gives My Soul Guidance
When Anguish And Languish Are Residents Of A Soul
Then That Which Is More Vibrant
Is The Song That Brings Soul-
Lace’d In Bitter Cacophonous Tunes
The Serial Sequences
Bring Me Home To The Pews.