A funny thing happened while I was reading some poetry
A funny thing happened while I was reading a poetry collection today. Some of the pages had gotten reversed when the book was put together, and so the end of one poem was attached to the beginning of another. I read the first, and just thought the poem was either badly written or else that I missed something. Then I started reading the next one, and realized the ending I'd just read fit better with this beginning. Suddenly I noticed that the pages weren't put together properly.
I managed to remove the wrongly inserted pages and turn them the correct way, but the experience made me smile. It kind of made the poem I first read, when it was oddly put together, seem like a surreal piece, with oddly pasted together images that hinted at something more than what you could quite put together logically.
At the end of the day, even the oddly put together poem wasn't the worst piece I'd ever read. Just goes to show how a well constructed piece of verse can make the reader think twice before assuming that there is something wrong with the poem.
