That is to say, ten good reasons.
- Most of it’s thin
- Your friends will think you have taste.
- It gives you something else to think about.
- Buying it’s easier than writing it.
- There’s room in the margins for lists and doodling.
- It doesn’t answer back.
- Look in your kitchen cupboard. I bet there’s no poetry in there (yet).
- It has no best-before or sell-by date.
- It makes the author happy.
- It makes the publisher even happier.
Buying chocolate-coated poetry is even better, cos it releases endorphins while you read it!
Actually I forgot to mention reason 11 (which you’ve just subverted, Stephen): poetry isn’t fattening.
A signed, first-edition poetry book makes a very economical, personal Christmas present.
Also, it’s satisfying to know that someone formed it with their own hands and decorated it, either before or after firing.
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Oh so sorry, I thought we were talking about buying pottery.
I think it’s time to have poetry in the kitchen cupboard….
Pottery isn’t fattening either, Reno. However, there is [i]some[/i] of it in my kitchen cupboard already… 🙂