Heartless Books

          Heartless Books


He spiralled through erotic books complete
With spelling errors, and Church Latin ones,
Complete with telling errors, sneered at sweet
Tales “read by grandmothers” but not their sons.
He even leafed through little children’s books
But not because of Paul’s deserted boy.
Rimbaud refused to give the slightest looks
To sheets that gave the bourgeoisie their joy.
“I owe my own superiority
To having no heart.”  The boy should have told
Poor Paul that fact.  Inferiority
Has been his fate because those ribs were cold.
..If there had been two hearts that felt the flare,
….Their verses could have made a helix prayer.