"Ex Libris" (National Poetry Month poem-a-day) Day 25
Written by Bruce A.
Pandolfo
4/25/2017
The Book Thief felt
like The Master Of The World,
he was The Man WhoLoved Books Too Much.
who could disappear
like David Copperfield,
like an Invisible Man in Invisible Cities
with a Heart OfDarkness.
The social Sphere
of book collectors and dealers'
and decided it couldn't
Carrie on.
So, like SherlockHolmes, they set about to solve It.
Through emails,
teamwork and Persuasion
they caught Gilke,
something of a Kite Runner,
fishy work kiting checks,
they found many of
The Beautiful andDamned books he Kidnapped
at his Bleak House
on Treasure Island.
But this Jailbird
experienced no Metamorphosis
from his Crime andPunishment when he was briefly Walden.
It turns out he's a
dishonorable
collector with GreatExpectations, an Old Man And The Sea
of books he swam
miserly in.
With such a collection
and obsessive head,
it's a wonder he doesn't
scramble them all up!
Thinking crazily,
taking inventive inventory of his
fabled storage
container looking fused like...
“Welcome-To-The-Monkey-Paw-House”
by Kurt Vonnegut and W.W. Jacobs
“Tender-Is-The-Midsummer-Nights-Dream-Catcher”
By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shakespeare and Stephen King
“Uncle-Tom-Sawyer's-Cabin”
by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain
“War-And-Peace-Of-The-Brave-New-Worlds”
By Tolstoy, H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley
“Doctor-Zhivago-and
Mr. Hyde”
by Boris Pasternak and Robert Lewis Stevenson
“20,000 Leagues
Under The Sea-Wolf”
By Jules Verne and Jack London
“The Witches Of PickWick Papers”
by John Updike and Charles Dickens
“For Whom The
Bell-Jar Tolls”
by Earnest Hemingway and Sylvia Plath
“The
Time-Line-Machine”
by Michael Crichton and H.G. Wells
“Sailing Alone
Around The World In 80 Days”
by Joshua Slocum and Jules Verne
“To The
Lighthouse-Of-Leaves-Of-Grass”
by Virginia Woolf, Mark Z. Danielewski and Walt Whitman
“Five-Patients-In-A-Balloon”
by Michael Crichton and Jules Verne
“Into-The-Call-Of-The-Wild”
by Jon Krakauer and Jack London
“Monday or
Tuesdays with Maurie”
by Virginia Woolf and Mitch Albom
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