Bibliophiles

They met in the library
but it wasn’t a date,
it was a chance encounter.
She, looking for Romance,
had her head in the clouds
and scouted many volumes
searching for Mills & Boon.
He had asked at the counter
where he could find Adventure
and yet, after being told,
he was none the wiser;
he could not find the place.
With both of them being lost,
it was not surprising
that they came face to face.
As they looked at each other,
they immediately knew
it was love at first sight.
He’d found his ideal woman
and she her Mister Right.
We better draw a veil
on what happened in the aisles
of the Erotica section;
it’s sufficient to say
she turned a new leaf
and was proud of herself.
She didn’t want to be a spinster
and be left on the shelf.

© Luigi Pagano 2011