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The Book
I have always been an avid reader of books
Ally types, all genres, fiction, non-fiction
I love the smell and atmosphere of book shops
Especially the mustiness of the second hand
It is good now and then to find something
So different that I buy it without reading the blurb
Or even opening it for a sneak peek preview
So it was with my latest purchase
A book in a plain glossy grey sleeve
Absolutely no text, title or pictures
I was intrigued to read its contents
Sitting in my comfy reading chair
I opened the book in anticipation
The first page entitled ‘Forward’
Only that as a title no other text
I turned to the next page agog
‘Chapter One, Marked ‘Page 1’
The rest of the page was blank
Page 2 blank, page 3 blank and so on
Empty page followed empty page
16 chapters, 423 pages in all
I read it cover to cover, waiting,
Waiting to get the point of this book
On the back inside cover
Appeared three lines of text
‘Written by Jenny Watson who passed away on 23/11/2014
After a long battle with brain Cancer and Alzheimer's
These are her memoirs’
Ally types, all genres, fiction, non-fiction
I love the smell and atmosphere of book shops
Especially the mustiness of the second hand
It is good now and then to find something
So different that I buy it without reading the blurb
Or even opening it for a sneak peek preview
So it was with my latest purchase
A book in a plain glossy grey sleeve
Absolutely no text, title or pictures
I was intrigued to read its contents
Sitting in my comfy reading chair
I opened the book in anticipation
The first page entitled ‘Forward’
Only that as a title no other text
I turned to the next page agog
‘Chapter One, Marked ‘Page 1’
The rest of the page was blank
Page 2 blank, page 3 blank and so on
Empty page followed empty page
16 chapters, 423 pages in all
I read it cover to cover, waiting,
Waiting to get the point of this book
On the back inside cover
Appeared three lines of text
‘Written by Jenny Watson who passed away on 23/11/2014
After a long battle with brain Cancer and Alzheimer's
These are her memoirs’
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