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Below you can find some quick links to some of my writing and other interesting places.
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Poetry
Salieri's secret
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote me an opera;
The jealous lesser musician
Puts paid to the marvellous Mozart;
Great story - treachery, tragedy,
An enjoyable score of disharmony.
History reads differently;
No evidence of malevolence.
I applauded his performances it's true
And wouldn't you? I love music,
Was I jealous of how she loved him?
The film was best, we all went mad;
Mad Amadeus, bad Salieri,
Both of us dangerous to know.
My word, it was sad at the end
Me round the bend and him dead.
I'm enjoying my posthumous infamy;
Can you tell where I am,
Am I speaking from heaven or spitting from hell?
Salieri's secret you won't know
'till you meet me below - or with Mozart.
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