Right now I’m reading Dr Zhivago
Well not right now (that’s artistic licence)
And next I’ll read some Edgar Allan Poe
Short stories (since I hate happy endings)
The last novel I read had some suspense
Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame - that dame
Was certainly a swinger by the end
The Mayor of Casterbridge almost the same
That tragic protagonist’s mortal flame
Blown out, like Rebecca, or Saul Bellow’s
Humboldt, the tortured poet. Innocence
In a sense, in these works, finds man to blame
And also woman. Inspiration’s so
Easy to find for our eyes and our pens
Thanks, Wu Ting Ting....
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