Thursday, April 21, 2005

No Books

When I got on the bus this afternoon, it didn't take long to notice there was something wrong. Something terribly, terribly wrong:
Nobody was reading a book.
A bus full of people and not one of them reading a book. Maybe I had just stepped into the Twilight Zone. Maybe it was the first day of the end times. It was disturbing. It disturbed me. My head spun, mouth went dry.
A bus full of white wires and microscopic telephones.
No books.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm surprised you've been observing as many readers as you have, especially of books (and not newspapers)...
i hope they bring back literature to yr bus though... it's a good soapy thread!
"What's the next chick gonna look like?"
"AND WHAT THE HELL IS SHE READING!!!"
I GOTSTA KNOW?

Anonymous said...

-sorry that meant to be a ! at the end and not a ?... the ? suggested that i was debating the importance of it all (which i assure you i'm not!!) see, double !