They Told a Ten-Year-Old to Leave the Station Piano Alone — He Set Down His Backpack and Sat Anyway

Just wait, he had said.

They had waited.

Then the afternoon continued, with a train delayed on track four, and a boy who caught it, and a line that got cleaner, and a house where the dishes still needed doing, and a woman who had bought a keyboard for fifteen dollars because a child had put one finger on a key and not moved.