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The Metrist at the Operetta

By tuning somewhat low the second violins

And somewhat high the first, the two-faced Viennese

Attain the sound of sugar, just as, hurrying

The second beat, they CPR three-quarter time.

Exactitude is not a way to animate,

And, although honesty may be a policy,

It’s not a beat to dance to. Face it: in the arts

It is the tricks that are the trade. The firm head snap

That holds at bay a ballet dancer’s vertigo;

Perspective (false perspective being no more false

Than any); make-up and impersonation; trope.

A metronome confirms clockmakers’ art, not this.