i can't read this

some books you can't read.
it's a long list actually
starting with anything with
the word dragon
in the title.
Ulysses is another. a
sleeper, a heavy book
best used for a door stop,
as is War and Peace.
any shade of grey
will make you gag
and throw it across
the room towards the fire
place.
Michener bothers you
as well. dry as a bone
history lessons that make
you yawn.
you try so hard to plow
through Harding
or the Russian writers
that are worshiped as literary
gods, but you can't.
you can't get past
the names, the multiple
plots, the endless
pages of descriptions
of snow. Chekov is fine
though. he keeps it short
and sweet.
as is carver and
Hemmingway. toss salinger
into the salad
along with flannery,
lorrie moore. season it
with some poets.
which is most of them,
except Mckuen.