Because because is such a quaint word
by reason of interest being
but a table cloth
for dinners with friends at philosophy circles
Hence book fixations in price and binding
tickle nostrils of leather, stitching,
green cloth and paper glue
training trusted upon by memories draining
There lies a book of laughter on mid-summer
as one’s waking is an other’s night’s dream of Walcott
and poetic note taking
of said non-seasons and the likes
gently hearing that chain-link fence
as a museum ornament around the gathering
of being on the fence, fencing off advances,
fancy a drink in polite company
Circles drain
the likes of seasoned polite company
into frantically composed collecting
points of common interest, just because
just by reason books are fixed until mended.
—animasuri’24Triggers
Dr.WSA. (2024, June 21). fyi because you seemed to be … online: email. And, thank you.
M.C. (2024, June 21). The price isn’t right. Fixing books’ prices, Michael Rosen’s illustrators, J. R. Ackerley’s prize. Online: Times Literary Supplement (TLS). https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/nb/the-price-isnt-right/
