John Cage Has Died | Rose Mary Boehm

He would like to be remembered
as an empty book left open
for the wind,
as a tone-less symphony
waking the listeners
to their very lives,
as a poem never written,
never read.

As a silent presence
on a stage that has
been taken down
last year.

John Cage died a disappointed
inventor of aleatoric music for
which he invented a string instrument
that had to be played by one tall person
with four hands.

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