Saturday, August 6, 2022

read me one more page

the words
come fast, then slow.

a perfect read.
you lie back and listen,

the speaker turned up
on your little

phone.
you listen and imagine

these people, hardly
disguised

in the Bell Jar.

it's a beautiful book,
a painful book.

you know the end
before the end,

but it doesn't matter
doesn't ruin things.

you want it to go on,
for her life

to go on.
you want to read what

she would have written
if she hadn't

taken her own life.
but you are glad

for what she did leave,
glad that she was born.

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