I pick one or the other up daily to keep the rhythm in my life with a little rhyme or verse…it keeps me sane.

For example:

Lending Out Books 

You’re always giving, my therapist said.

You have to learn how to take.  Whenever

you meet a woman, the first thing you do is lend her your books.  You think she’ll

have to see you again in order to return them.

But what happens is, she doesn’t have the time

to read them, and she’s afraid if she sees you again

you’ll expect her to talk about them, and will

want to lend her even more.  So she

cancels the date.  you end up losing

a lot of books.  You should borrow hers.

                                                                 ——-Hal Sirowitz