Sunday, September 23, 2012

Books

Books

death covers me with a fine dust.
i love fat used books. they are
like used fat bodies coming out of sleep 
covered with fingerprints and shiny 
snail trails.
i wish to read the way i love:
jumping from mirror to mirror like a drop of oil
father and farther from my death.
but god gives us fat books and fat bodies
to use for different reasons
and less a metaphor i cannot say
what haunts me

- Andrei Codrescu

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