Yesterday I was as relaxed as I've been in the seventeen years I've been in America. So I went to the University Sanctuary to play the piano. To really play like I used to when I was nine years old, at Queen Afonja's house, while the girls did bad things playing outside on the lawn. I used to play for three hours, get lost in tropical sounds, as the birds mimicked. So as far as harmony, theory and melody, I'm hip. However, I keep catching that man on Channel 19 playing at this Conservatory gig... and wow... that's what pianists do... they make the piano play... so being of mild strength I decided to try and make the piano play...
I did... I can play like that man, the head of the Conservatory... however it is an anomaly since I don't practice, so all I have is form.. .so I improvised a classical piece and did a concert for the UB Honors society (National)... they thought I was a famous world class pianist... so when I began packing up my laptop I answered their quizzical look by saying "I'm a world class programmer... but it's boring to watch, hence the piano"... they still seem(ed) unconvinced... anyway, during the show, at the point where I got it, I hallucinated into existence a young lady who I am convinced exists in Spanish Documents by the name of Adeola Cortez, a piano prodigy from Ilesha... how on earth she got to spain and how we were able to continue the conversation is not unusual for someone reaching that plateau in piano playing... I didn't see Glenn Inanga, and I've heard him play... he might be better... but onlybecause he practices...
Immediately after the psychologist asked me, as though for the first time, how I feel.. and I was excited about getting to meet Deola... and her peers... but I was also a bit... scared..? Don't know why... it's like standing on top of a mountain... if you fall, you can possibly roll down all the way to the bottom... I'm not eager to play like that again for a while... and frankly I see no reason for it... except, perhaps, for security reasons from time to time
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