Margaret Forgive Me For I Have Sinned

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Lock me

in that Nunnery

so those

who have none

will have one

 

Allowing

REALITY

to intervene:

in this image

I am reddened 

with guilt and shame

 

Here's why:

I had read 

almost 150 pages

of this book

within two days

and 

was totally enthralled

by the story

 

The following week

I read no more than

six pages,

doing more 

head-scratching

than reading

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I put the book aside

with Page 153

highlighted

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NOW:

Let me say this

about that

 

Atop

the book image,

I underlined

"Worldwide Bestseller"

and I hope the author

made a gazillion dollars

as a result

 because

 in my opinion

no one alive today

—writing in English—

is more talented 

than Margaret Atwood

 

When you read 

a dozen books

by the same writer,

you have enough 

mental lumber

to build

such a conclusion

 

Novels, short stories, poetry,

and social criticism:

 

Margaret does it all

with such ease, wit, 

wisdom, shock value

—and best of all—

very dark humor

 

She writes 

like someone

whose next book

can be written

while the author

is blindfolded

and the result

will still be

wonderfully 

brilliant

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 My favorite title is

"The Edible Woman"

(1969)

and 

Penelopiad

(2005)  

is an updated version of

ODYSSEY

written from

a different perspective

 

The original version

was written by 

Homer

and his tale is told

over the course of

one thousand pages

Not until I am locked away

in a nut house

would I attempt to read what

the first modern novelist

penned 

almost

 ten centuries ago

 

Penelopiad

is 224 pages 

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Margaret Atwood

is 86-years-old

but sometimes

she can pass for

a 33-year-old

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My secret hope

is that 

between the time

you read this page

from top-to-bottom,

Margaret Atwood makes

another gazillion dollars

+

and hires Mrs. CarPeo

to do the artwork

for her next

book 

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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

 

 

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