An open book waiting to be read,
A wrinkled orange waiting to be thrown away;
The book waits,
The orange waits,
For the reader who walked off to get some snacks.
An open book waiting to be read,
A wrinkled orange waiting to be thrown away,
And the reader who never comes.
He used to exists
And he could have come back.
But
He walked into the library instead of the kitchen.
He picks up book after book
And reads the blurb behind each.
He picks up book after book
And feels like he's read all of them.
But he doesn’t remember
That one book on the bed
With that one wrinkled orange.
He doesn’t remember
That one book on the bed
Whose blurb he did not read.
He never returned for it
And his knowledge remains incomplete...
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