11-08-2022, 10:16 AM
The Great Divorce
When we were first married
we bought books
faster than we could read them.
Garage sales were godsends;
every week you'd come home
with a dozen classics
for less than a buck--
some of them leatherbound.
In the separation, she didn't want them
and my one-bedroom apartment
looked like the Library of Congress
twice smart-bombed.
I saved the signed Burroughs,
the first addition Steinbeck, the Rabelais
and a couple C.S. Lewis...
(Kerouac's "Safe in Heaven Dead" pocketbook
was and is non-negotiable)
but the rest
I'm almost ready to part with.
When we were first married
we bought books
faster than we could read them.
Garage sales were godsends;
every week you'd come home
with a dozen classics
for less than a buck--
some of them leatherbound.
In the separation, she didn't want them
and my one-bedroom apartment
looked like the Library of Congress
twice smart-bombed.
I saved the signed Burroughs,
the first addition Steinbeck, the Rabelais
and a couple C.S. Lewis...
(Kerouac's "Safe in Heaven Dead" pocketbook
was and is non-negotiable)
but the rest
I'm almost ready to part with.