A LESSON IN GEOMETRY

Yesterday I went to the library
To pick up my reading material
For the Spring semester:

Bukowski, Ceravolo, Stein,
W. S. Merwin, I dropped my
Library card on the clerk’s desk,

“Do you still live at 12818 Barranca Ln?” he queried.
“Mind your business,” I said.
“What’s that?” he asked, puzzled.

“You have to have patience with
novels,” I retreated. “Everything is like that.”