I Love To Read, by Sonya Sones
I Love to Read
But my life better not turn out
to be like one of those hideous books
where the mother dies
and so the girl has to
go live with her absentee father
and he turns out to be
an alcoholic heroin addict
who brutally beats her
and sexually molests her
thereby causing her to become
a bulimic ax murderer.
I love to read,
but I can't stand books like that.
And I flat out refuse
to have one of those lives
that I wouldn't even want
to read about.
-- Sonya Sones
This is from a Sonya Sones book, One Of Those Hideous Books Where The Mother Dies. Sones writes teenage novels in poetry and, while they don't always say great things about the state of the universe, every now and then they do; and they make me want to write, for some reason. Even when she's writing about banal silly things I like the way she writes. Anyway, I picked this particular one because I think it's accessible without the rest of the plot of the book, and also I couldn't find the one I really wanted to post. :P I like it a lot anyway.
But my life better not turn out
to be like one of those hideous books
where the mother dies
and so the girl has to
go live with her absentee father
and he turns out to be
an alcoholic heroin addict
who brutally beats her
and sexually molests her
thereby causing her to become
a bulimic ax murderer.
I love to read,
but I can't stand books like that.
And I flat out refuse
to have one of those lives
that I wouldn't even want
to read about.
-- Sonya Sones
This is from a Sonya Sones book, One Of Those Hideous Books Where The Mother Dies. Sones writes teenage novels in poetry and, while they don't always say great things about the state of the universe, every now and then they do; and they make me want to write, for some reason. Even when she's writing about banal silly things I like the way she writes. Anyway, I picked this particular one because I think it's accessible without the rest of the plot of the book, and also I couldn't find the one I really wanted to post. :P I like it a lot anyway.