THIS IS A POEM ABOUT WHAT YOU MAY ALSO LIKE 6.16.17

6.16.17

I went to Barnes & Noble and purchased four books. At the bottom of my receipt the following text appears verbatim:

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE…

Babbit (Barnes & Noble Classics Serie…

by Lewis, Sinclair; Krauss Kennet…

You Get So Alone at Times That It Just

by Bukowski, Charles

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short F

by Conrad, Joseph; Matin, A. Micha…

Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writ

by Irving, Washington; Norberg, Pe…

I want to call customer service and tell them what I really like: A nice cabin on a mountain lake, with minimal human company, and large magnum bottles of wine and coffee in the morning and several burning fires with several different kinds of wood and a short happy life of endless perfect winters.


Written at 11:53 at night, in my office, in Agoura Hills CA. 

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