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