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Requests for Toy
Piano
By Tony Hoagland
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Play the
oneabout
the
of
ducks
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where
the
ducksgo
down
tothe
river
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and
oneof
them
!thinks!
thewater
willbe
cold
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but then
and like it
they in anyways
and splash around.
jump
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No, I must
playthe one
about the
nervous man
from Palestine in
Row 14
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with a
brown bag
in his lap
in which
a gun
is hidden
in a sandwich
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the one about the
handsome man and woman
Play
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standing on the sTePs of her apartment
and how
the darkness
and her perfume
and the beating
of their hearts
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to
make them feel
like leaping
from the edge
of chance.
conjoin
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I should play
the one about
the hard rectangle
of the credit card
hidden
in the man’s
back pocket
No,
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and how the woman
spent an hour
plucking out her brows,
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and how her perfume
was made from the destruction
of a hundred flowers.
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Then Play the one about the
flower industry
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in which the migrant workers
curse their own
infected hands
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from tossing sheaves of
roses and carnationsinto the back of
the refrigerated trucks
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No, I MUST
play the one about the
single
yellow
daffodil
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standing on my kitchen table
whose cut stem
draws the water
upwa
rd
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so the plant
is flushed
with the conviction
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that the water
has been sent
to find
and raise
it up
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from somewhere
so deep insidethe earth
not even
flowerscan remember.