A list of books to read tells its own tale within a pocket’s story One of suggestion, direction, and desire Dovetailed with constraints of time, restriction of funds, resistance to conformity And fantasies tinted with regret’s patina Fuzzy gray lint from disguises and garments once worn Mingles with white sand grains from the ocean’s edge home Of the beach glass worn down and worn smooth By the water’s perpetual motion folding and rushing onto the shore The tide empties its pockets with each receding wave Leaving its trinkets exposed on the beach Only to be collected again and again
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