Rain (Charles Bukowski)

Bring the Symphony Orchestra there is a thunderstorm you're playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats under the trees and run inside to the pavilion women giggling the men pretending calm wet cigarettes being thrown away Waggener plays on and then they are all under the pavilion the birds even come in from the trees admitted the pavilion then it is a Hungarian Rhapsody number two by Liszt and it still rains but look one man sits alone in the rain listening the audience notices they turn and look the orc mr. goes about its business the man sits in the night in the rain listening there's something wrong isn't there he came to hear the music I wasn't there but a friend of mine you