Poem: Knowing The Score

Some time ago when I was 10 or 11 or maybe I was 5 or 6, music hit me and I’m glad it did.  I felt no pain, only joy,

sorrow of course, when the music told me to feel that way – and thanks must go to Mark Knopfler for his soundtracks

of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Local Hero and Cal, thanks to Danny Elfman and Wendy Carlos and Bill Conti and many others

(Tho…