Apartment sounds

How quickly the oblong voice of a father is replaced, in the echo from a different apartment, with a woman's tears. Is this what new dads do while at home with the baby, mimicking cries and singing along to Mariah Carey? My apartment is a chamber with a skylight and a cactus garden. Sometimes there's music from the school for the blind next door; other times, it's the baby who keeps vampirish hours or my roommate playing Beatles songs on his accordion.