Michael Moorcroft - I Read This Book

I read this book,
It made me look,
At things I never saw.

A treasure from a car boot sale,
Digested wholly in silence,
On cultures lost on history’s trail,
On cities built on violence.

I read this book,
It made me look,
At things I never saw.

© Michael Moorcroft July 28th 2009

Michael Moorcroft

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