precious infidelity (bibliophilia)
he fell in love for the first time
really fell deeply in love
in high school
(but this is not about girls
or women
with those love happened
much earlier and spontaneously
and has failed each time
or at least he has failed them)
this is falling in love with books
and it is the plural that is precious
he often reads two or three books at once
and he never has to hide his cell phone
or pretend he is reading only one book
and he carries them all together everywhere
this book holds his heart as others have and do
and there will be more and more and more
this orgy of unbridled reading and touching
each page where he underlines and highlights
this bibliophilia is absent jealousy or possession
although paper pales against bone muscle and skin
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