.
She stopped reading "The Count Of Monte Cristo"
around the time she dumped me
and started reading "Eat, Pray, Love"
instead
my favourite book
is The Count of Monte Cristo,
is why I gave it to her
an archetypal page-turner of a novel
swashbuckler story of adventure
intrigue
revenge
and the limits of justice and,
it is
by now
a very old story
one you may have heard
or seen
elsewhere before.
I hear
"Eat, Pray, Love"
is a beautiful book
Oprah Winfrey said so
guess it's all just comes down to
personal preference
defining your reading taste
I remember reading
this girl's last letter to me
presumably written before
she started to read "Eat, Pray, Love"
explaining, Dear John, to me
already
the characteristics
of the next relationship
she wants to have
one much more stable
more supportive
more accepting
more genuine
a more less-contradictory
more-better-at-listening
or something
sort of thing
and it is
by now
a
very
old
story,
one
you may have
heard
or seen
elsewhere
before
_______________________________
-Peace
.
1 comment:
I hate that mawkish, pseudospiritual, air-brushed, condescending, wind-beneath-my-wings, Oprah-endorsed, Julia Roberts-starring cosmic puke of a book too, Randall. I haven't read it myself - had to put it down as the cloying curd caught in my throat - but my wife, the lovely Jo, has. The comments are my paraphrasing of hers, so you're in fine company, my friend.
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