subway talk

Is that a kindle or is that a nook?

I've seen them, but I think they're not for me.

I like the physicality of books!

The musty pages and the lock and key

of tarnished silver; ink that flowed from pens

of monks long dead; the covers leatherbound

in something (human skin?) that moans; a lens,

that helps you trace the whorls of runes around

the thousand maddened faces scribed within,

suspended by a ribbon. I don't think

that e-ink shackles words that shriek their sins

to damn the heavens quite like standard ink.

Yeah. Reading books has always been my passion.

That and Satan. Guess I'm just old-fashioned.