THE CHOCOLATE BALL BOOGIE

It's Friday...and the two women
    are practicing duets
on the piano
    as they are wont to do.

BOOM-CHICK...CLICK, CLICK
    BOOM-CHICK...CLICK, CLICK
BOOM CHICK...CLICK, CLICK

They are learning "When I Was 64,"
    but strange things--unknown sounds
are coming from the depths of the
                 piano.

What's this "CLICK, CLICK.?"
     They asked each other.
Veteran pianists, and they didn't 
    recognize this "CLICK, CLICK?"

It was weird---almost like a picayune
    player, a dwarf. hiding in the
piano and helping them!

    Stymied by the strange sounds
and unknown rhythms...
    They raised the lid, checked the 
damper pedal, the other pedals,
    hammers---everything, and all
seemed okay.

So they sat back down and began
    playing again...
BOOM-CHICK....CLICK, CLICK!
    BOOM-CHICK...CLICK, CLICK!
and suddenly they caught a new
    feeling of rhythm--clear 
into their bones...to their toes!

YES! They had it now, going big time!
     They were "swingin' and swayin'"
as the saying goes...
    with the help of that dwarf
hiding in the piano!

"Away we go!" 
    BOOM-CHICK...CLICK, CLICK!
BOOM-CHICK...CLICK, CLICK!

About that time, a very strange thing
     happened. A long-lost and forgotten
almond chocolate ball, just bounced out
     from wherever it was lodged and rolled
out from under the piano. 

The two women dropped their hands
    into their laps...and
simply looked at each other....

And about that time, the husband of one
    of the pianists (He-- a skilled musician
"in his own right,") came in and said:
    "That was absolutely marvelous!
What's it called?"

The two women, seated at the piano, 
    looked at each other...
and without missing a beat,
    SAID IN UNISON:

"IT'S THE CHOCOLATE BALL BOOGIE!"

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BY MIL
6/16/14
(Based on a true event, with a modicum
of literary license.)