, when composers of social tunes

                                    advance and approach the choir

            with slovenly smiles pasted on

                                                sweaty and greasy faces,

they have an off pitch accapela to intone.

                                    choristers with sore throats,

            aching from years of singing wrong tunes;

                        exhausted conductors confused from

reading volumes of tuneless measures,

                                                sweat from brain aches.

                                    then the master composer

                        standing at the pewter

            conscious of his mouth odour,

                        tunes the song in pitchless notes.

 time signatures come in reverse;

              rest values decrease with increasing tempo;

  a tie and a slur meet in mid song and the