Giuoco Piano

Where I once drank coffee gratis
I now watch a televised performance
of my friend the puppeteer

Knowing I didn’t go to school to learn
to play chess, pot plants, renovate
my house or weave a web

The band’s playing Ástor Piazzolla,
I’m sitting at a fustic table, intoxicated
with a tulip in my hand,

I knew how to write, spell, read and drive
long before hearing a note of L. Cohen