crooked as corkscrews

1. Donʼt see him. Donʼt phone or write a letter.
2. The easy way: get to know him better.

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.