The Book Man
(an anti-hero's lament)


Taking off her half-moon spectacles
becoming part of her story

but you're not all Mills and Boone
Book man, I'm thinking gory

Stephen King, Barbara Cartland
Under a blood-red moon

What's it all for, old Booky,
What's your backstory?

Girls sometimes
like to be a little scared;

Oh, book man, you read too much
into it.
book man, you've had your fill
of it;

When will you shut the book
and find closure?