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.