October 2010: Villainelle

A redundant cadence of song
Fills up the center of the room
Droning on too painfully long
 
Other voices that can be strong
Hushed in a stifling tomb
A redundant cadence of song
 
The band is right, the solo wrong
The performance projecting doom
Droning on too painfully long
 
Discordant notes that don't belong
Lead to merciless sonic boom
A redundant cadence of song
 
Quickly nobody plays along
Their  fugue now turned into fume
Droning on too painfully long
 
With a final crash of the gong
The crowd empties draped in gloom
A redundant cadence of song
Droning on too painfully long

(For all my friends and colleagues in English departments around the world, the mis-spelling in the title is intentional!)