Kinshasa Symphony
By day: a porter, a hawker, a single mother, a barber, a jobless pilot.
In moonlight: a violinist, a trombonist, a flutist, a tenor, a conductor.
Bicycle brake cables for violin strings.
Out of raw woodwork the cello and double bass.
Violist the sentinel of floodlight and power generator.
Open air rehearsal amidst noxious dust and diesel fumes.
Music in adversity: "It's like a staircase. You go up, and up..." None deters.
