"pagina dos" by prefuse 73
this song inspired the prompt: books: which inspired 2 responses
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- by Melinda Farrar
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his is how i love you best-
waterlogged, worn
pages torn
my illegible scrawl
on the last few pages
numbers with no names and
a hastily scribbled poem
that needed an emergency home
i love when i leave you with
whole pages underlined
the ink smudged and running
from that time i took you in the bath
a few stains from that other time
when i spilled my coffee
i love when your pages have
been fondled by fingertips of friends
i love to think of them loving you
just the way that i do!
i love you in cabs and on the train
and getting to know one another
in a coffee shop while hiding from the rain
i love you discreetly between classes at school
and sometimes i can't stop thinking about you
no matter what i do
i started loving you when i was just a kid
your memories all tangled up with mine
all month spent anticipating my next fix
and i swore i could taste it when i'd walk in the store
before i saw that big cardboard display
and the fate of those suburban preteens sat right in my hands
so the world would be okay
(I was always Dawn, but anyway)
you smell like excitement when you're new
the crispness of your pages makes me swoon
opening you like biting through a juicy apple
still i like you best loved to missing covers
my books velveteen
minus the quarantine
i will always be a book lover
- by Jenna Strauchen
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