Buzzworthy
Saturday, March 25, 2006
ReadingAnd there I was again,
Sound, soft,
Pressing with headlights into
A conversation with someone
With whom I did not want to have
A conversation.
“do you like to read?” she asked.
Before I answered, I tried
To imagine
What literary works had already
Polluted her pointed question,
And,
Before I answered, I imagined
Why she had read such garbage.
I imagined her self-help books
In a heap by her bed,
And wondered if she had taken the time
To actually finish one.
Namely, the one I imagined
sitting closest to her pillow,
entitled Your Attention Span and You.
Through which she’d only gotten
About halfway.
I tried to imagine if she read in
The bathroom,
As I did, and do,
Since it makes for such
Quiet concentration;
(I decided that no,
she didn’t. She thought it uncouth. )
She was still gazing,
Waiting
For an answer to her absurd inquiry,
But I was stuck on imagining
The bejeweled bookmarks
She would make for herself instead of reading
The books to put them in.
After I felt my silence had suitably tortured her, I
Cleared my throat and
Relayed her question,
And said, “no.”
As I had suspected,
She began to ramble
And recite a long list of
Names she had memorized,
None of whom I had heard before.
I was going to ask in what part of the
Self-help section I could find these masterpieces,
But instead, let her continue to talk.
She played with her pinky fingernail
As she spoke.
I lost track after the
Explanation of
The third author’s lifestory,
And began to envision her
Messy kitchen, that
Held a
very expensive food processing unit
that was sure to please
any company that would behold it.
Her final inquisition was
What had snapped me back
To attention.
She had written down one of the
Author’s names for
Me to research later.
I did, when I got home;
I looked him up
And browsed his published works,
One,
Eerily titled,
a deeper look into attention span.
I ordered a copy; it arrived
Last month. I have yet to start
Reading.
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Just found this one again. I rememeber my delight when I first read it, and like the best poetry, I love it even more upon this second look.
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