Serenade
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg
With a grotesquely outsized bow
Pierrot scrapes on his viola.
Like a stork on one leg,
He plucks a doleful pizzicato.
Suddenly here's Cassander -- raging
At the nighttime virtuoso --
With a grotesquely outsized bow
Pierrot scrapes on his viola.
He tosses the viola aside,
With his left hand delicately
Takes Sir Baldy by the collar --
Dreamily he plays on his pate
With a grotesquely outsized bow.