margaret imbert
barnes and nobles is the perfect place to
fall in love
cross-legged, water bottle, nonfiction section
Smithsonian
teenage angst melting away like marshmallows in hot chocolate
I look up when
people pass me in my cubicle
a scruffy beard, two large breasts, shadows of
heavy North Face Jackets
the woman with the book i couldn't find.
books
like: Creative Writing, A Literary Life will tell me she's a dreamer.
I
always end up thinking about falling in love in a Barnes and Noble.
the
music's always on. We could sit in the cubicle, read until someone laughed
aloud
and had to explain. We could look out the huge window at all the people
walking
walking to find love
and explain why we chose Barnes and Nobles
over Borders.
