The Man in Unit 4-C

He is composing his opus, his overture
as he snips the piano wires and stretches animal sinew

across warm wooden bodies. Like his neighbors,
he has always wondered what inhabits that other side of the wall.

Curiousity devours each resident's mind, eventually, and
they can't help but wonder What is he DOING in there? What

IS all that noise? Thin walls of the complex make their question
a defining aspect of the space itself, and it's almost cannonical

for tenants to move in next door or across the hall,
as if proximity would let them make sense

of the screams.