Last night, a major piano concert was interrupted at the WormHole Square Concert Hall, when a homeless man, emerged from inside the piano, and demanded silence.
“I was trying to sleep,” said Curtis Fletcher, 52. But it’s really hard to do so with all this goddamn Sir Elton-type clanging going on! I’m a vet, and I could sleep better in a foxhole on the shores of Normandy, for Christ’s sake!”
Pianist, Sergio Pastore, was midway through Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #17, when Mr. Fletcher pushed the lid open wide, emerged from the Steinway grand, and asked Mr. Pastore to keep it down or he would be forced to call the landlord. Mr. Fletcher was promptly escorted out of the venue. On his way out, he was reportedly heard asking patrons for spare change to replace his 4 dead, pet salamanders, still inside the piano, with new ones.
“I had been living inside that music box for six months now,” Fletcher said, from the sidewalk in front of the concert hall. “It was the G sharps that did me in. Those G sharps fuck up my circadian rhythm big time.”
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I love how the homeless man comes out of the piano and the pianist looks at him with such curiosity in the middle of his concert.
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