(from a collection of poems on how to drive a child insane)

(from a collection of poems on how to drive a child insane)

He was playing the organ, or at least

the keyboard made out of cardboard box

his stepfather had brought him in place of a real organ.

His stepfather forced him to perform

on that cardboard box for months. 

When the organ finally arrived,

it was as if he were insane.  The sounds that came out

of that hellish machines were nothing like

the sounds he had practiced.