Selecting a Reader -- Ted Kooser

[aimlesswanderer]

Selecting a Reader
by Ted KooserFirst, I would have her be beautiful

Comments

[rushh_aa]

"For that kind of money, I can get
my raincoat cleaned."
And she will.

hehe... :) I once found 'Let us Compare Mythologies' at a bookstore.. They had imported a few copies and for me (student, broke) it was a sky high price.. and I did the same..

"she will thumb
over my poems, then put the book back
up on its shelf."

[leda_swanson]

god this is beautiful

[statues]

Thanks for this.

[thewickedtongue]

I think I used to find this poem cute once but now when I read it, the image of this beautiful woman wearing a raincoat is so fetishized sounding to me it makes me wonder how he really feels about women and also it really sounds like he's about to jump out behind the book shelf and rape her, because it just sounds predatory to me, even if its a made up reader/character.

[angabel]

I got a creepy sense from this the first time I read this (and still do), which lead me to write a really scathing imitation of this.

So yes, you're not the only one.

[thewickedtongue]

That is so awesome.