Alternatives to Harmony: TRIOLET with CAGE refrain

 

Triolet

 

 

Today, Elee sent me a line she thought might be good in a poem.

“I no longer consider it necessary to find alternatives to harmony.”

 

Earlier, my friend Donato suggested I try writing a triolet.

So it was good that Elee sent the line—it’s true: it’d be good in a poem.

 

The line is a quote from the composer John Cage.

And it’s hard not think how it might apply to everything.

 

For instance, it’d be harmonious to end with Elee’s good-in-a-poem line:

“I no longer consider it necessary to find alternatives to harmony.”