Choose the Better Thing

Borders Books Going Outta Biz Sale

Took 287 South

to a Borders

Goin Outta

Biz Sale.

Books may be

anachronisms,

relics from

yesterdays

analog age,

but literacy's

bankruptcy

does have

advantages.

Take an

additional

30% off on

any orphans

pleading

release from

the discount

racks.

Snooping down

the literature isle

Samuel

Beckett's

somber face

arrested my

roving

eyeballs

A stern stare

printed across

5 spines of

his shrink

wrapped

oeuvre

commanded

my arm to rise

to liberate the

face from the

dismal shelf.

In mid flight

my reach

was hijacked

by a Kris

Kringly red

snow flaked

trim tome

standing

open face

next to

earnest

Beckett.

It was "The

Christmas

Sweater"

by NYT

Best Selling

Author, Glenn

Beck.

Clasping at Beck's

book, it inflicted

a nasty paper cut

to my ring finger.

My mind recoiled,

thinking, "serves

you right. Like

Martha, I shoulda

chosen the better

thing."

I'll never

make that mistake

again.

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2/20/11

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