Great Regulars: It pains an old booklover like me

to think of somebody burning a book, but if you've gotten one for a quarter and it's falling apart, well, maybe it's OK as long as you might be planning to pick up a better copy. Here Ron Koertge, who lives in Pasadena, has some fun with the ashes of love poems.

Burning the Book

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 419

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