A Novel Way to Live

A preferable existence
Would be to be a reader who
Loves novels, lives novels, lives them
But never finishes a one.

Every story starts, bright or dark,
A new life in another world,
And not one story ever ends,
Just breaks off into a new one,

And no matter how difficult,
How obscure, how disappointing,
How tragic any story is,
There’s always another waiting,

Which is what the novel reader’s
Life could be, if you could live it.