My brother-in-law takes me aside
to show me something he's hiding from Aretha my sister
He pulls a high shelf, a dusty box ---
in it, a handwritten manuscript,
a manuscript as big as a family Bible,
I'd say.
Seymour, says he has become a writer,
Unbeknown to Aretha, he's writing in secret, late at night
Wow, what a coincidence.
I'm doing the same. Carl has no idea..
I can't to see what's in the box,
and boy am I surprised!
No War and Peace, No Moby Dick
No Hundred Years of Solitude
His project is more expansive than any of the above
What Seymour is writing ---
or to say it more precisely--- what Seymour is copying by hand
is the King James Version of the Bible, Genesis to Revelation.
Wow, what a coincidence
I'm copying by hand the entire works of William Shakespeare.
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