the value of book

The value of books


Late afternoon the sun has left the terrace and is in the back throwing up dust before reluctantly slinking west and sinking
into the sea beyond the seas.
The town-scape, is charming red roofed dwellings among the  many trees that are deep green this time of the year.
Near the sea two big edifices, one has luxury flats on top for the people called the “jet-set” It is here scrawny women live
on  lettuce a day and Valium.
Next to to that house, a white elephant, a skeletal hotel that
was abandoned when the would-be owner went broke.
In the calm bay two small cargo ship of uncertain age riding
the anchorage waiting for the morning, it baffles me how these old ship makes money, two bags of rice here and a barrel of wine there; perhaps they fish and live healthily
but I do hope they  have books if not the lacuna of empty time must be heavy on the mind.
When I was a seaman I read hundred of book to pass the time
some rubbed off so the time became useful, like automatic  learning.