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stuck

Patrick Fealey

it’s Sunday
my head hurts
I have to review
A book
Before I review it
I have to read it
It’s Sunday
My head hurts
I might feel better
If I could write
My own thoughts
But I have to review
This book
I’ve read 14 pages
And it sucks
Like no toilet paper
It sucks like turbulence at 30K feet
It sucks like finding your car
Has been towed
It sucks so bad
I can hear the trees mourn
But I have to review
This book
It’d been published
By nepotism
And so I am required to review it
I guess I should go now
And read it
If I lie
And say some good things
There’s a chance the publisher
Will look at my work
The words I don’t have time
To write
But I won’t do that
Because whoever published this
Sucks shit out of the brown eye
I will read it and it will suck
I will worsen my headache
Carefully writing a negative review
Without saying
Anything negative
Like it sucks
And the publisher will complain
And the writer may complain
And my editor
The author’s friend
Will pay me
And more books
Will arrive
In Monday’s mail

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