never tell someone to love! I fixed myself up,
fox yourself up. I like to take inventory too much
I found this old green gridded journal for officing
so when someone would borrow a book, they could check it out
from the library, bc I even have one of those date stampers
it can stamp any day between 1992 and 2013
I don't know what will happen in 2014
maybe we'll stop reading by then
god I hope so, I have too many books lugging around
So the lendee would sign the book's inside cover, and I'd stamp it with a due date
a date we'd agreed on
a date before 2014, sometime
and she let her old boyfriend borrow one hundred years of solitude
and she'd forgotten she'd done that, so it was about a hundred years late but is back on the shelf
along with all of the other Márquez I've never read
save for the novelette about the president
that I read aloud to bruce over a lantern
at the reservoir while he poured vodkas
I wonder if I will ever read one hundred years of solitude
I keep thinking I will
the other books haven't been returned... I stupidly in romantic fever lent a lover's discourse
to some ex-girlfriend of my friend's ex-boyfriend, so-
I lent it at the bar, too
I had my stamp & my logbook & everything already with me, the bar library
but that was last summer
and she unfriended me on facebook
but I know she couldn't have digested that
but I ingested it so I guess I hope she passes it along
I lent light in august which is one of the two Faulkners I've done
I started it one August
and finished it the following August
am I a slow reader :/
nah, I was reading linguistics texts
and postmodern short stories
remember? I was trying to be in COLLEGE again, whatever
I lent light in august to andy, but then of course he broke up with me
and I told him to finish it and give it back
and then I told him I just wanted it back
and then I told him he could burn it if he wanted, that I never wanted to see it again
yeah, I think I'll go take some inventory
inventorying is relaxing
