Friday, March 6, 2015

fifty shades of boredom

some books bore you by line ten
no matter what the flattering blurbs
have to say, or what seductive photo
is splashed on the cover,
so you quickly skim through it,
fanning the pages, then turn to the end
to see exactly where this
thing is going. you only have so
many hours on the clock to read,
and the movie about the book
is already on cable tv.
sometimes you go and other times,
the book becomes a door stop,
or a gets shelved never
to be touched again
except when you need paper
for the bottom of your bird cage.

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