One Book at a Time

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What's it like

to read one book at a time?

is life smooth and serene?

do you go out dancing every night

and fall into bed,

drifting easily into an exhausted happy sleep?

do you wake

in the morning

with a dewy simper, a cup of tea

and plan your day frolicking

with carefree friends

and an obedient puppy?

do you discuss politics and life

religion and astrophysics

with a disconnected comfortable self-satisfaction?

do you have time between social gigs

to polish the toilet to a sparkling sanitized shine?

is your laundry clean, folded, stacked

and arranged by color in your organized closet?

is there room on your tidy desk for a single

to-do list

with  solid check marks in an orderly row?

are your library books actually

free

–returned on the due date??

Tell me what it's like to have dustless, clutterfree shelves

and thoughts that march in manageable logical succession.

After you tell me what it's like to read

one book at a time,

do let's have brunch

and you can detail for me a life wherein

you write just

one book at a time.