Across my path last night you flew:A cocksure, giggling, half-drunk messThe smokescreen of a hidden you,unstable in your awkwardnessI grimaced as you spilled your drink,and played the slack-jawed sort of blokewho likes to say, but seldom thinksand jabs his way...

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Other people’s lives are brighter than my own.Smart people tell me I shouldn’t think that way, but it explains why I scavenge in secondhand bookstores. Finger with care what someone has once read. Foxed pages, awkward inscriptions, a journey bookmarked...