Took 287 South
to a Borders
Goin Outta
Biz Sale.

Books may be
anachronisms,
relics from
yesterdays
analog age,
but literacy's
bankruptcy
does have
advantages.

Take an
additional
30% off on
any orphans
pleading
release from
the discount
racks.

Snooping down
the literature isle
Samuel Beckett's
somber face
arrested my
roving
eyeballs.

A stern stare
printed across
5 spines of
his shrink
wrapped
oeuvre
commanded
my arm to rise
to liberate the
face from the
dismal shelf.

In mid flight
my reach
was hijacked
by a Kris
Kringley red
snow flaked
trim tome
standing
open face
next to
earnest
Beckett.

It was "The
Christmas
Sweater"
by NYT
Best Selling
Author, Glenn
Beck.

Clasping at Beck's
book, it inflicted
a nasty paper cut
to my ring finger.

My mind recoiled,
thinking, "serves
you right. Like
Martha, I shoulda
chosen the better
thing."

I'll never
make that mistake
again.


Borders Books
Riverdale
2/20/11
jbm