Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Bible, King James Version
Nancy Drew Mysteries by Carolyn M. Keene
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery,
The Source by James A. Michener
I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
Gray's Anatomy by Henry, F.R.S. Gray
Cat in the Cradle
a poem by Carol Burkhart
HEY, you over there, dark, recoiled
Watching, waiting, smirking
Dancer, player, manipulator.
Replenished? Fulfilled? Sadistic popinjay
Bloodless, torn locus of pain, preen thy soul and puke the poison
Time punishes hags and Mammon.
Sound the alarm. Friend or vixen approaches
Appearances deceive. Victim, traitor or troublemaker?
Careful, now, empty chalice. Stand back, observe the snail.
Don't be piper for little cats in the cradle, old children.
Go. Mix with the lambs across the footbridge this night.
For life's candle burns low on the wick
Brittle trust mending by degrees of unbrokenness, uncoiling.
Amateur image seeker, lay your traps
Knowledge rusts from disuse
Daggers cannot penetrate a shield scarred by the green sin.
