Please bring me a Junk Novel

a formidable stack of
literature at the top of
the stairs

as soon as I finish
one, another rises to
the surface

about children who are
raised to be organ donors
and dare to fall in love


a child drowning in the local pond

the horrors of industrial agriculture,
unrequited love leading to suicide,
head scarves and death in Turkey,
drugs, rock n’ roll and riots in the 60s,
and let’s not forget the
devastation of
war.

Please bring me a junk novel.