<i>City Lights Books, San Francisco</i> <br /> <br />So many poets, <br />so many books. <br /> <br />I read in ALL ABOUT THE ATOM, <br />when I was ten, <br />that if you poured a glass <br />of water into New York harbor, <br /> <br />then went to San Francisco Bay <br />a year later and dipped <br />an empty glass in the water, <br /> <br />you'd scoop up a <i>billion</i> <br />atoms from the New York glass! <br /> <br />And here's that has to do <br />with my seeing all these books: <br />if you took one atom <br />from every book <br /> <br />and made a single book <br />from all the atoms— <br />maybe I could read <i>that</i>.<br /><br />Max Reif<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-poetry-room-at-city-lights/
