Lending Out Books, by Hal Sirowitz

[shampooboo.livejournal.com]

    You’re always giving, my therapist said.
    You have to learn how to take.
    Whenever you meet a woman, the first thing you do is lend her your books.
    You think she’ll have to see you again in order to return them. 
    But what happens is, she doesn’t have the time to read them. 
    And she’s afraid if she sees you again, you’ll expect her to talk about them. 
   And will want to lend her even more. 
    So she cancels the date. 
    You end up losing a lot of books. 
    You should borrow hers.

Comments

[groupie-supreme.livejournal.com]

Hah. I like this.

[42shadesofgray.livejournal.com]

That's very funny, and true, and unfortunately describes the last relationship I was in to a T.

I still have to return that book.

[riddley-walker.livejournal.com]

lol, yeah that's good.

[shampooboo.livejournal.com]

eek, I appologise for disrupting the theme of the day.
And this poem is me, absolutely.
Exept change all the feminines to masculines.
I always lend out books, oh goodness.

[plooie.livejournal.com]

auch! i love this poem!

[plooie.livejournal.com]

(and by "auch" i mean "augh". makes a lot more sense that way.)

[pyralid.livejournal.com]

Excellent.

[kementari2.livejournal.com]

Hmm yeah, after a while I just stopped letting people lend me books because I knew I wouldn't read them, and so on...

[degram.livejournal.com]

oh heh. heheh. heh. he. um.

yeh.

[nerak-g.livejournal.com]

I can't count how many books and cds I've lost that way~ because they're gone, but also because, to make matters worse, I have a librarian's attitude.
Well, not about the fees, sadly.
hehe