September 11, 2017 | Occasus | Issue 7 | Poetry
Get Out of My Bookcase
I
I used a thin book
as a bookmark for another book, a bookception that must have made the book marked book feel separated and the book marking book feel used. It amazed me how easily the anorexic book was swallowed. Her words becoming his words. Her presence dissolving. II
Books are not meant to be
inside of other books, no matter how good you tell me it feels. III
I've been pulling titles off shelves
and reading between the lines, climbing through the gaps I've created to burrow my way into your future chapters. Tearing out old lovers, past failures, and opinions that don't match my own. IV
Are you one of those romances?
A thriller? A murder mystery? At the end will we find out whether you killed me or I killed myself? V
Wash your pages, please.
I don't know who has read you. |
ELIZABETH SAK is entering her third year of university as a duel major in Honors Specialization Creative Writing & English Language and Literature, as well as Business.