Autodidact

Just show me the basics

-where my fingers go

-when to wait for the laugh

and I’ll tinker away

fashioning my own

version of it.

No technique

but to listen

for my own voice.

I’ll hack my way

through the jungle

of formal training

and come out

with some weird

twisted mutant,

one with a reassuring

resemblance

to myself

and whatever it is

you call

this.