Alone on a Shelf
by Adam | Sunday 8 April 2007
Alone on a Shelf
we’re almost a story
not for fire fuel
nor for the lists they have
for required reading
not quite a story
lacking principles
and constitutions
like the countries
surrounding us
we’re completely unfinished
like everything, literally
everything else around us is
like the subway cars
in between halves
in their circles
our autonomous casting
the agnostic atheists
doesn’t sound like
something that would get
past the editors
we don’t have to make
the review to have a
warm corner alone, to linger
the unguent for dry binding
for starters
we have this whole shelf
to ourselves.