brief synposis leading up this aria: peter kang, a college student, is working on his music hum concert report, a six-page paper that is due the next day. he realizes that he has nothing intelligent to say about the opera he saw a week ago. after agonizing for over five hours in front of the computer, he feels compelled to take his own life. therefore, an aria before the act.

PK
Thy keys, computer, blankness tires me,
On thy screen no words exist,
Try I would, but Death invades me;
Death is now a likely choice.
When I am found breathless,
May my teacher say
‘Perhaps six was too much’;
Remember me, but man! forget my grades.