Anti-Reading Song

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Lily DeBell

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Oh, little sister, do you still read the lines
Of the poems you stole from the carefully alphabetized
Bookshelf of mine? Such tempting design
The Roethke staring you dead in the eyes

Or are you too old for his American verse?
Now it's Nabokov when you feel bad, Woolf if you're worse
Seeking practical subjects, no flowers and trees
Performative gambling games and personal calamities

Don't stay up too late reading again

The coffee stain on the page is as significant
As the protagonist's coming-of-age
The novel, hidden in your suitcase in shame
You thought you'd have time to start it on the plane

Build a tower of books, twelve feet off the ground
Crack all the spines before you knock it back down
Scribble your initials on the inside,
Fold every corner, ignore the late fines

Please, please go to bed

Learn not to question what the author intended
He was probably drunk anyway
Call it practice or cultivated automatism
You get good at something if you do it once a day

What a curious game we play to be understood
Obscuring our meaning, not saying what we really would
The truth only proferred from character's lips
And they don't know anything, 'cause they don't exist

Don't stay up, go to bed

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