A Song About Reading Lyrics

On the train I'll dive into a something light, but spicy

A poetry book—Ferlinghetti, Roethke, Frank O'Hara.

Something foreign…Borges, or Murakami

Or a manga…Blue Period, with a side of Cowboy Bebop

At the beach I go for the classics. Heavy stuff

The Russians…Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Solzhenitsyn

Modern masters…Hemingway, Salinger, Capote

Vonnegut, Irving, Heller, and Pynchon

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There's nothing more rock and roll than a song about

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On the couch I like something that I can spend some time with

Maybe something non-fiction. Letters from Winston Churchill

A biography of Woody Guthrie, Myrna Loy, Chrissie Hynde

A history of the Attica prison riots. Guadalcanal Diary

Late at night, it's anything goes. Bukowski

Gogol and Kafka, or then newest Donna Tartt

Garrison Keillor, but just the old stuff. Tom Robbins

Or something, anything, by Henry Rollins

What could be more rock and roll than a song about

reading

There's nothing more rock and roll than a song about

reading