My grief is my grandmother,
who falls asleep with her
mythology book in her hand
and wakes up with rage
if she doesn't find the book
in her hand, with her
forefinger right in the page
she was reading.
She knows where she left the story,
she also knows she'd fall asleep.
Yet she yells for her book, with that selfish love,
for the same story she already knows
the way it would end.
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