Chopin

Variations On A Theme By Ray Carver

Just when he had given up thinking

he'd ever write another line of poetry,

she began brushing her hair.

And singing that Chopin Polonaise

he liked so much.

The one about George Sand, whose

real name was Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin,

the Baroness Dudevant.  "She repels me"

he'd said at first. But then he

changed his mind on Mallorca.