The Journal of Alfonzo Veneto, Self-Described Last of the Pianistas

Page 189

Right now just trying to make it through the week. I

remember

a

little

of

what

happened

yesterday. I woke up early again after a night of dreams and wanted to write them down.

I

couldn't

find

this

book

and

searched the living room for a pen and paper: I could only find an old pad of sheet music and only a few pages. I got it in my head to write everything in order so I took the eleven pages that were left in the

notebook

and

tore

them

into

eight

pages and laid them out on the kitchen table. It looked like I might have left some olive oil on the table so some bled through. I tried to clean it off and lay them out. I started to write down all of the years of my life in order and had begun with 1872. But then I began to think my mother was wrong that maybe it was 1871 or maybe I could have been wrong this whole time and I will just be 87 in December. I tried not to think about it but laid out the sheets with dates and some of the facts I could remember. But a window was

a

through,

little and

open began

and to

167

a

breeze

blow

the

came sheets


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