My e-reader sits on the desktop,
unused for the past week
except to read a few news articles.
It's not that I don't like to use it
or that I can't decide which book
should be the next one to absorb
my attention and hold me captive.
I know that I will fall into the story,
enthralled with the trials and woe,
overflowing with empathy and curiosity
as everything else falls away,
including the soft noise of the arrow button.
Instead, I work through a list of other tasks,
and goals, letting the present sweep me up
for a few more days before I willingly
fall into another novel without any guilt.
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