A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Which is which?

Two identical stacks of books, 
side by side on the cabinet top: 
all the same titles, edition and nick.
Ordered identically start to stop.  
One stack is straight, though uneven
in size: all of the angles are neat
as pins. The other's haphazardly 
balanced and skewed. It sits 
solidly, with a crazy grin. 

One of these stacks has been read 
straight through. Every page has 
been turned and explored. The other 
was printed and stacked and sold, 
yet every letter remains unpoured.  

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