Plath and Bukowski

I have Sylvia Plath's "Collected Poems" and Charles Bukowski's "You Get So Alone..."

The former borrowed from my sister a year ago, and since I've no plan of returning it, it's mine.

(Anyway she just lives in the next building and may "borrow" it anytime.)

The latter I bought from National Bookstore a month or two ago --

with money my wife thought better (and more humanely) spent for our little daughter's milk.

(One afternoon I found them lying on top of the other on top of our plastic bedroom drawer.)

I believe reading them both is good for my, ah, "poetic education"

and mental health. 

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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, everyone! 

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Searching for nothing in particular at the bookstore

Upon entering I find, neatly arranged lying on a table,
among other books, "Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult,

About a daughter searching for her mother.

Then going around a little, shelf to shelf, checking on others
on display, I pick up "Son" by Lois Lowry
(with who could be The Doors' Jim Morrison on the cover),

About a mother searching for her son.

Now is the perfect time to leave the bookstore,

to find money to buy the books, then the time to read them.

This blog is sponsored by Limitado

phone nos. 09167840522/ 023588753

and S.P.R.A.W.L.-MMA

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