Friday, October 27, 2017

We bond

For Danuta, the woman who comes every two weeks and tells me she has stacks of books everywhere, too. Both of us know books and movies are not the same thing.

We bond,
Know books and movies
Are not the same thing.
The stories we tell
In our imagination
Are not
The stories
A screenwriter
Imagines.
They are
Different.
The plot and characters
Have some semblance
Of sameness
Yet
They are not
The same.
Read the book
Go to the movie
But don’t figure
They are the same.
We bond.
We are readers.
We know books and movies
Must be digested
As separate things.
I say
One
Or the other.

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