In the library, the student
reads the dailies all the time
when he should be reading thick
hardbound books, reams of unbound
photocopies and scented paperbacks.
He better understands things
with headlines, pictures, quotation marks,
sidebars and captions—color, conversation, movement,
height, weight, breadth render flesh to abstractions
which are as vague as the next day,
blur like his significant other,
and seem the Sahara and Atlantic.
How come he prefers to devour the fish smell
of the cheaper pulp to the soft,
or hard covers which seem more edible
with some coffee-in the-table?
Inside the library, the student
each time finds a character immersed
in every day’s color, conversation,
movement, weight, breadth, depth.
October 2003
reads the dailies all the time
when he should be reading thick
hardbound books, reams of unbound
photocopies and scented paperbacks.
He better understands things
with headlines, pictures, quotation marks,
sidebars and captions—color, conversation, movement,
height, weight, breadth render flesh to abstractions
which are as vague as the next day,
blur like his significant other,
and seem the Sahara and Atlantic.
How come he prefers to devour the fish smell
of the cheaper pulp to the soft,
or hard covers which seem more edible
with some coffee-in the-table?
Inside the library, the student
each time finds a character immersed
in every day’s color, conversation,
movement, weight, breadth, depth.
October 2003
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