Expensive Wretched Book

in the middle
of the book
simple arithmetic
when I look
to 
the end
twice as long 
from where I began 
story weak
patience lost
took the book
forgot the cost
threw it up 
then it fell 
BOOK be gone 
I yell
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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