I'm learning a short piano piece by Erik Satie, entitled Le Flirt. Satie's pieces mostly have subtitles in the scores - he called them "fragments" or "extracts" and they were not to be read out loud during the performance. Le Flirt's ones go like: "They say such nice things to each other, Up-to-date things." The performance indication starts with "Agitated."
Satie and I share the same motto: "Keep it short." He never wrote a large symphonic work or an opera and his true model was the business letter: "You have something to say, and you say it." (sounds a bit like John Cage, "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it).
I also purchased the English translations of Satie's writing (I have them also in French and German) and it is a really nice edition A Mammal's Notebook. The Writings of Erik Satie, with a quote by Jean Cocteau on the back cover: "The smallest work by Satie is small the way a keyhole is small. Everything changes when you put your eye to it."