Thursday, May 2, 2024

they talk at night

do books
on the shelf know who
they lean
against?
Darwin
and Billy Graham.
Freud
and Didion.
Bukowski.
Plath and Salinger.
Chekov
and Mickey Spillane.
do they have a clue
as to who
they share the room
or floor with?
do they talk
into the night, all these
poets
and writers,
self-help gurus,
psychologists and chefs?
what lively
conservations they must
have when the lights
go out,
and i stumble off to bed.

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