Prompt for Hour Seventeen
Books and people are nearly the same.
Books just like people have lots they can claim.
Turning a page is like asking a question.
A person like a book has a secret confession.
Reading a book’s like listening too.
But reading is better cause memories misconstrue
A friend is a book and a book is a friend.
Book friends keep their words right up to the end.
A story can change when the truth seems too deadly.
A book keeps its story ironically, readily.
If I were to need to make a choice between two.
A book I would choose, cause it needn’t choose you.
Text Prompt
Use one of these quotes as a jumping off point.
“I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” – Natalie Diaz
“I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it.” – Hanif Abdurraqib
“Books were safer than other people anyway.” – Neil Gaiman
Great interpretation of the Gaiman line. And, yes, “Book friends keep their words right up to the end.” Some of my best friends are books!
Thank you!