Mozart Was Buried Outside the Walls of Vienna Adam Henry Carriere Ended lives leave the city Under lime and indigent pine, ended lives leave the city drawn by tired horses and hungry peasants who, if they could read, would realize the terror of being uninvited to whatever salon was to play the prettiest music. The Friday eternal the mortar of Hapsburg palaces the single-step, one-child waltz is all that's left, between the malaria of age and death's rapture. The Salzburg corpse knew this long before his song did. |