I'm Booked

If I ever run out of things to say, I'll print a blank book.
I'll promote it like a Bible, walk around with it like a handbook.
Invisibility is an ingredient; bet you didn't know that I can cook.
Everybody can look and it'll still leave man shook.

Draw a macaroni on each page and call it a MacBook.
Five years was the first. That's how long that took.
I write on anything now; everything's a scrapbook.
Mental illness really, is how that looks.

Biblioklept; yes, I'm that crook.
The internet is a message from God; I'm hooked.
Busy swimming through these pages, I'm booked.
The type to read an entire novel in one look.

I'll write a book on my favorite artists and call it a fan book.
Include air conditioning on each page and still call it a fan book.
Write it by the seashore and call it a sand book.
Write a book on musical instruments and call it a band book.

I appreciate the company of people who understand books.
It doesn't have to be new; give me them ruggedy secondhand books.
A good book doesn't discriminate, no matter how your hands look.
Even after death, the heart still beats within a man's book.


- LUMARVENS ALEXANDER
poet, author
SATURN: Fantasy Poetry

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I quite like this poem.
a MacBook...ah yes...
easy book to memorize.
actually i like all the blank pages which will let the poetry fill itself up.
poetry seems to write itself for the most part.
all we have to do in the end is put on the page numbers, the index, and maybe write the foreword.
j.