Walking the dog, then rushing to rehearsal 
in traffic slow as slugs, exhaust from cars
 making him gag, the place as far as Mars,
 to play Variations On a Theme of Purcell 
might seem to some a big ordeal, for what? 
It wouldn’t have been so terrible had he 
made sure to read the call sheet. For you see, 
after he got through walking the small mutt, 
he took him home, then headed for a city 
which wasn’t where the orchestra was meeting. 
When he realized, his brain cells started beating 
him up. But it was not such a great pity, 
for then he raced and got to the right place. 
It would have helped, though, to have brought his bass. ______ (Appeared in Light)