Don Quixote

Sometimes I try to imagine this world 

without books: could I 

survive an airplane? 

Perhaps, in deference to other needs 

I’d find time to master a new art, 

learn how to paint in braille; 

mill flour from the sun, or 

bake muffins while squeezing out sparks from an accordion. 

Life could be like that. 

Then the crisis will pass. 

All the avoidable people 

I’ve been trying to avoid 

will suddenly fall into the void …

and I can start again.

Ken e Bujold

Reviews

[D. Mansfield]

A lover of books I related to this as well. "mill flour from the sun" loved this. thank you for this

[Ayvid N]

I read constantly so it would be very difficult for me to survive an airplane, especially a long haul flight. Loved the list of things you thought up to do. If there were no books, I'd sleep a lot, perhaps dream of books. I enjoyed reading this poem so much.

[W. Barrett Munn]

Nothing better than feigned intrigue to keep the world at bay until the sun sets.

Winston

[Ken e Bujold]

genesis from a book i am reading at the moment: The Written World. History of the arc of storytelling through time. The opening line of this came from a jumbling up of a sentence there, about if no literature, what would he do on airplanes? I thought, yes indeed. Then somehow it connected to my thoughts of late about DQ and voila

[W. Barrett Munn]

amazing how connections come together