To Die as a Reader Is to Abandon Many Worlds

“. . . after all, you’ll have three works of fiction going, a collection of essays, a folio of poems, a fat graphic novel, a theological tome . . .”—Claire Bateman

Speculative Friction

By Claire Bateman

GREENVILLE South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—11/3/2014—

To Die as a Reader Is to Abandon Many Worlds 

. . . because, after all, you’ll have three works of fiction going,

a collection of essays, a folio of poems,

a fat graphic novel, a theological tome,

not to mention the crossword, a galaxy of its own,

and all your old notebooks; you often peruse them as well.

Let them wander, poor strays. Like the renegade slurped by the whale,

you’ll await Judgment Day in a dim kind of liminal station

with the rest of the currently dead—strangers and near-relations.

Will you pine for your books in that place without morning or night,

or will narratives flutter like numberless pages in flight?

No one knows how it goes once you’ve burned out your reading light.

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