The Sound
The sound of the heating
The hot tub and the fridge
Fleeting though it may be
All produce a hum
An individual interval
From arpeggio into chord
Music can always be heard
In the sound of laughter
In speaking and sighing
and crying and trying
To converse
We are a musical people
And none are tone deaf
Listen to the wind
And hear how it sings
To you

Thoughts
I am sat in silence but the sound from the appliances is deafening. We live with such constant background noise that when we actually tune in to it, it can be like a building site. Try that with the sounds that people make. Even the most familiar will yield music.
Old school street entertainers in Paris at the turn of the millennium.
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