We are still living with Mozart,
down the hall, third door on the right,
third-floor walkup behind the KFC
on the corner of one street and another
we remain unable to leave him.
He follows us home when we stop visiting
and waits on the back porch for handouts:
water, a sandwich, sheet music, that baby grand piano
we always meant to learn to play.
He sits and he waves to the neighbors
and he waits, a stray cat we adopted
without meaning to, we have the heart neither to
keep him or give him away. He will not stay
in the attic or in his apartment, but.
He plays so nicely. He plays our strings
like a cat's cradle of violins and w