Instruments to produce very fine art

Are sometimes made of other parts

Than oak, mahogany and cherrywood

For music can come from so much good



Sometimes it's available in fine verse

At times wordy, but very often terse

And the strings which create sound

Are of the voice - so much around



Which can be used in ways adverse

When folks do not use it to rehearse

Things they choose to say in advance

And so hurt - with spears and a lance



If only they would take tips from masters

Then exchanges would be more lasting

For they would use strings made of catgut

Just as craftsmen did, long before their cuts



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

6:42pm Monday April 13th, 1998